ARM: 6384/1: Remove the domain switching on ARMv6k/v7 CPUs
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:03:21 +0000 (16:03 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 4 Nov 2010 15:44:31 +0000 (15:44 +0000)
commit247055aa21ffef1c49dd64710d5e94c2aee19b58
treee9e026b96597d080de4c16bb88c17b0495c61904
parentff8b16d7e15a8ba2a6086645614a483e048e3fbf
ARM: 6384/1: Remove the domain switching on ARMv6k/v7 CPUs

This patch removes the domain switching functionality via the set_fs and
__switch_to functions on cores that have a TLS register.

Currently, the ioremap and vmalloc areas share the same level 1 page
tables and therefore have the same domain (DOMAIN_KERNEL). When the
kernel domain is modified from Client to Manager (via the __set_fs or in
the __switch_to function), the XN (eXecute Never) bit is overridden and
newer CPUs can speculatively prefetch the ioremap'ed memory.

Linux performs the kernel domain switching to allow user-specific
functions (copy_to/from_user, get/put_user etc.) to access kernel
memory. In order for these functions to work with the kernel domain set
to Client, the patch modifies the LDRT/STRT and related instructions to
the LDR/STR ones.

The user pages access rights are also modified for kernel read-only
access rather than read/write so that the copy-on-write mechanism still
works. CPU_USE_DOMAINS gets disabled only if the hardware has a TLS register
(CPU_32v6K is defined) since writing the TLS value to the high vectors page
isn't possible.

The user addresses passed to the kernel are checked by the access_ok()
function so that they do not point to the kernel space.

Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
15 files changed:
arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
arch/arm/include/asm/domain.h
arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h
arch/arm/include/asm/traps.h
arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
arch/arm/lib/getuser.S
arch/arm/lib/putuser.S
arch/arm/lib/uaccess.S
arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S