linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 18/21] arm64: Move "nokaslr" over to the early cpufeature infrastructure

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Message-ID: <YAwwiRF4QnIoPS20@Catalins-MacBook-Air.local>
Date:   Sat, 23 Jan 2021 14:19:53 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        David Brazdil <dbrazdil@...gle.com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@...gle.com>,
        Ajay Patil <pajay@....qualcomm.com>,
        Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>,
        Srinivas Ramana <sramana@...eaurora.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 18/21] arm64: Move "nokaslr" over to the early
 cpufeature infrastructure

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 09:45:30AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Given that the early cpufeature infrastructure has borrowed quite
> a lot of code from the kaslr implementation, let's reimplement
> the matching of the "nokaslr" option with it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c | 17 ++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c          | 37 +++---------------------------
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c
> index 1db54878b2c4..143fe7b8e3ce 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c
> @@ -33,8 +33,24 @@ static const struct reg_desc mmfr1 __initdata = {
>  	},
>  };
>  
> +extern u64 kaslr_feature_val;
> +extern u64 kaslr_feature_mask;
> +
> +static const struct reg_desc kaslr __initdata = {
> +	.name		= "kaslr",

We might as well rename this ftr_override or something more generic as
we no longer describe registers here. Otherwise:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>