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Message-ID: <e4db9ef9-398f-114a-b5a8-8d8de0b0f85e@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 15:58:31 +0200
From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: Luca Scalabrino <luca.scalabrino@....com>, marc.zyngier@....com,
Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: spectre-v2: Try to set IBE bit for Cortex-A15 and
Brahma-B15
On 06/08/2018 12:58 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Per the ARM reference manual for the Cortex-A15, The ACTLR:
>
> Is a read/write register.
>
> Common to the Secure and Non-secure states.
>
> Is only accessible from PL1 or higher, with access rights that depend
> on the mode:
>
> * Read/write in Secure PL1 modes.
>
> * Read-only and write-ignored in Non-secure PL1 and PL2 modes
> if NSACR.NS_SMP is 0.
>
> * Read/write in Non-secure PL1 and PL2 modes if NSACR.NS_SMP
> is 1. In this case, all bits are write-ignored except for the SMP bit.
>
> We can attempt to set this bit from within the kernel, which helps
> avoiding firmware side modifications to set the IBE bit when that is
> impractical. We do this within __v7_ca15mp_setup and __v7_b15mp_setup
> because by then we already took those labels because the processors we
> run on do match.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
I believe this would help on selected R-Car Gen2 SoCs which have CA15
cores. Those cores are released from reset by Linux directly and jump to
the reset vector set up by Linux in Secure mode.
I was looking for a generic solution after discussing how to mitigate
the spectrev2 on such SoCs with Catalin on IRC and this seems to be one
option. There was also a suggestion that Russell is working on some sort
of generic solution too. Can you comment on that please ?
> ---
> arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> index 6fe52819e014..a21cf3729efa 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
> @@ -284,10 +284,16 @@ __v7_cr8mp_setup:
> b 1f
> __v7_ca7mp_setup:
> __v7_ca12mp_setup:
> + b 2f
> __v7_ca15mp_setup:
> __v7_b15mp_setup:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR
> + mrc p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 1
> + orr r0, r0, #1 @ Enable IBE bit
> + mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 1
> +#endif
> __v7_ca17mp_setup:
> - mov r10, #0
> +2: mov r10, #0
> 1: adr r0, __v7_setup_stack_ptr
> ldr r12, [r0]
> add r12, r12, r0 @ the local stack
>
--
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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