Currently the zero page is set up in paging_init, and thus we cannot use
the zero page earlier. We use the zero page as a reserved TTBR value
from which no TLB entries may be allocated (e.g. when uninstalling the
idmap). To enable such usage earlier (as may be required for invasive
changes to the kernel page tables), and to minimise the time that the
idmap is active, we need to be able to use the zero page before
paging_init.
This patch follows the example set by x86, by allocating the zero page
at compile time, in .bss. This means that the zero page itself is
available immediately upon entry to start_kernel (as we zero .bss before
this), and also means that the zero page takes up no space in the raw
Image binary. The associated struct page is allocated in bootmem_init,
and remains unavailable until this time.
Outside of arch code, the only users of empty_zero_page assume that the
empty_zero_page symbol refers to the zeroed memory itself, and that
ZERO_PAGE(x) must be used to acquire the associated struct page,
following the example of x86. This patch also brings arm64 inline with
these assumptions.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Bug:
30369029
Patchset: rework-pagetable
(cherry picked from commit
5227cfa71f9e8574373f4d0e9e754942d76cdf67)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Change-Id: I43005dd8533d9968d2cef48bd2821d4507cae5ad
*/
static inline void cpu_set_reserved_ttbr0(void)
{
- unsigned long ttbr = page_to_phys(empty_zero_page);
+ unsigned long ttbr = virt_to_phys(empty_zero_page);
asm(
" msr ttbr0_el1, %0 // set TTBR0\n"
* ZERO_PAGE is a global shared page that is always zero: used
* for zero-mapped memory areas etc..
*/
-extern struct page *empty_zero_page;
-#define ZERO_PAGE(vaddr) (empty_zero_page)
+extern unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long)];
+#define ZERO_PAGE(vaddr) virt_to_page(empty_zero_page)
#define pte_ERROR(pte) __pte_error(__FILE__, __LINE__, pte_val(pte))
adr_l x2, __bss_stop
sub x2, x2, x0
bl __pi_memset
+ dsb ishst // Make zero page visible to PTW
adr_l sp, initial_sp, x4
mov x4, sp
* Empty_zero_page is a special page that is used for zero-initialized data
* and COW.
*/
-struct page *empty_zero_page;
+unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long)] __page_aligned_bss;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page);
pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
*/
void __init paging_init(void)
{
- void *zero_page;
-
map_mem();
fixup_executable();
- /* allocate the zero page. */
- zero_page = early_pgtable_alloc();
-
bootmem_init();
- empty_zero_page = virt_to_page(zero_page);
-
/*
* TTBR0 is only used for the identity mapping at this stage. Make it
* point to zero page to avoid speculatively fetching new entries.