1. 17 6月, 2013 1 次提交
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      ARM: mpu: protect the vectors page with an MPU region · 9dfc28b6
      Jonathan Austin 提交于
      Without an MMU it is possible for userspace programs to start executing code
      in places that they have no business executing. The MPU allows some level of
      protection against this.
      
      This patch protects the vectors page from access by userspace processes.
      Userspace tasks that dereference a null pointer are already protected by an
      svc at 0x0 that kills them. However when tasks use an offset from a null
      pointer (eg a function in a null struct) they miss this carefully placed svc
      and enter the exception vectors in user mode, ending up in the kernel.
      
      This patch causes programs that do this to receive a SEGV instead of happily
      entering the kernel in user-mode, and hence avoid a 'Bad Mode' panic.
      
      As part of this change it is necessary to make sigreturn happen via the
      stack when there is not an sa_restorer function. This change is invisible to
      userspace, and irrelevant to code compiled using a uClibc toolchain, which
      always uses an sa_restorer function.
      
      Because we don't get to remap the vectors in !MMU kuser_helpers are not
      in a defined location, and hence aren't usable. This means we don't need to
      worry about keeping them accessible from PL0
      Signed-off-by: NJonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      CC: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
      CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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  2. 08 6月, 2013 2 次提交
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      ARM: mpu: add early bring-up code for the ARMv7 PMSA-compliant MPU · 67c9845b
      Jonathan Austin 提交于
      This patch adds initial support for using the MPU, which is necessary for
      SMP operation on PMSAv7 processors because it is the only way to ensure
      memory is shared. This is an initial patch and full SMP support is added
      later in this series.
      
      The setup of the MPU is performed in a way analagous to that for the MMU:
      Very early initialisation before the C environment is brought up, followed
      by a sanity check and more complete initialisation in C.
      
      This patch provides the simplest possible memory region configuration:
      MPU_PROBE_REGION: Reserved for probing MPU details, not enabled
      MPU_BG_REGION: A 'background' region that specifies all memory strongly ordered
      MPU_RAM_REGION: A single shared, cacheable, normal region for the valid RAM.
      
      In this early initialisation code we simply map the whole of the address
      space with the BG_REGION and (at least) the kernel with the RAM_REGION. The
      MPU has region alignment constraints that require us to round past the end
      of the kernel.
      
      As region 2 has a higher priority than region 1, it overrides the strongly-
      ordered behaviour for RAM only.
      
      Subsequent patches will add more complete initialisation from the C-world
      and support for bringing up secondary CPUs.
      Signed-off-by: NJonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      CC: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com>
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      ARM: mpu: add header for MPU register layouts and region data · a2b45b0d
      Jonathan Austin 提交于
      This commit adds definitions relevant to the ARM v7 PMSA compliant MPU.
      
      The register layouts and region configuration data is made accessible to asm
      as well as C-code so that it can be used in early bring-up of the MPU.
      
      The mpu region information structs assume that the properties for the I/D side
      are the same, though the implementation could be trivially extended for future
      platforms where this is no-longer true.
      
      The MPU_*_REGION defines are used for the basic, static MPU region setup.
      Signed-off-by: NJonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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