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authorMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>2018-01-29 11:59:56 +0000
committerAlex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>2018-03-01 16:11:11 +0800
commitd3597d8823bd2f2197b84ff4550e04f970a04802 (patch)
tree6e88c3bcd88cc238e71744ba37545b82d80a5a20
parent6b308a42688999555d486348b6a38567a20c59de (diff)
arm64: Force KPTI to be disabled on Cavium ThunderX
commit 6dc52b15c4a4 upstream. Cavium ThunderX's erratum 27456 results in a corruption of icache entries that are loaded from memory that is mapped as non-global (i.e. ASID-tagged). As KPTI is based on memory being mapped non-global, let's prevent it from kicking in if this erratum is detected. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> [will: Update comment] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> Conflicts: using old function read_system_reg/cpus_have_cap to replace read_sanitised_ftr_reg/cpus_have_const_cap in arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 0fba6105ebd0..760c851439b1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -753,12 +753,23 @@ static int __kpti_forced; /* 0: not forced, >0: forced on, <0: forced off */
static bool unmap_kernel_at_el0(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry,
int __unused)
{
+ char const *str = "command line option";
u64 pfr0 = read_system_reg(SYS_ID_AA64PFR0_EL1);
- /* Forced on command line? */
+ /*
+ * For reasons that aren't entirely clear, enabling KPTI on Cavium
+ * ThunderX leads to apparent I-cache corruption of kernel text, which
+ * ends as well as you might imagine. Don't even try.
+ */
+ if (cpus_have_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456)) {
+ str = "ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456";
+ __kpti_forced = -1;
+ }
+
+ /* Forced? */
if (__kpti_forced) {
- pr_info_once("kernel page table isolation forced %s by command line option\n",
- __kpti_forced > 0 ? "ON" : "OFF");
+ pr_info_once("kernel page table isolation forced %s by %s\n",
+ __kpti_forced > 0 ? "ON" : "OFF", str);
return __kpti_forced > 0;
}