From: R Sricharan <r.sricharan@xxxxxx> ARM decompressor code setups entire 4GB address space pages. Out of the 4GB, about 256MB are setup with normal memory attributes for needed DRAM and the rest of the address space as Strongly ordered. But since all the sections are mapped in DOMAIN0(Manager), processor like Cortex-A15, can speculatively prefetch from non-DRAM read sensitive areas even in the presence of XN(Non-executable). This is because XN attribute is ignored when domain is Manager. This can lead to accesses to non-accessible address regions leading to various interconnect violations. The issue is observed on OMAP5. This patch tries to fix the issue by ensuring that non-DRAM region is marked as a client domain so that XN attribute is effective. A better alternative is to not map un-used regions but since the decompressor code is generic, there might be many exceptions for the devices used like debug console etc. Signed-off-by: R Sricharan <r.sricharan@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S index dc7e8ce..4dc799b 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ __setup_mmu: sub r3, r4, #16384 @ Page directory size mov r9, r0, lsr #18 mov r9, r9, lsl #18 @ start of RAM add r10, r9, #0x10000000 @ a reasonable RAM size - mov r1, #0x12 + mov r1, #0x32 @ set domain1, XN, valid orr r1, r1, #3 << 10 add r2, r3, #16384 1: cmp r1, r9 @ if virt > start of RAM @@ -587,8 +587,10 @@ __setup_mmu: sub r3, r4, #16384 @ Page directory size #else orrhs r1, r1, #0x0c @ set cacheable, bufferable #endif + bichs r1, r1, #0x20 @ set domain0 for DRAM cmp r1, r10 @ if virt > end of RAM bichs r1, r1, #0x0c @ clear cacheable, bufferable + orrhs r1, r1, #0x20 @ set domain1 str r1, [r0], #4 @ 1:1 mapping add r1, r1, #1048576 teq r0, r2 @@ -658,6 +660,9 @@ __armv7_mmu_cache_on: movne r1, #-1 mcrne p15, 0, r3, c2, c0, 0 @ load page table pointer mcrne p15, 0, r1, c3, c0, 0 @ load domain access control + bic r1, r1, #0xc + orr r1, r1, #0x4 + mcr p15, 0, r1, c3, c0, 0 @ set domain1 as client #endif mcr p15, 0, r0, c7, c5, 4 @ ISB mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0 @ load control register -- 1.7.5.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html