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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>arm64: kernel: fix architected PMU registers unconditional access</title>
<updated>2016-01-31T19:29:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Pieralisi</name>
<email>lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com</email>
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<published>2016-01-13T14:50:03+00:00</published>
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commit f436b2ac90a095746beb6729b8ee8ed87c9eaede upstream.

The Performance Monitors extension is an optional feature of the
AArch64 architecture, therefore, in order to access Performance
Monitors registers safely, the kernel should detect the architected
PMU unit presence through the ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 register PMUVer field
before accessing them.

This patch implements a guard by reading the ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 register
PMUVer field to detect the architected PMU presence and prevent accessing
PMU system registers if the Performance Monitors extension is not
implemented in the core.

Cc: Peter Maydell &lt;peter.maydell@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 60792ad349f3 ("arm64: kernel: enforce pmuserenr_el0 initialization and restore")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f436b2ac90a095746beb6729b8ee8ed87c9eaede upstream.

The Performance Monitors extension is an optional feature of the
AArch64 architecture, therefore, in order to access Performance
Monitors registers safely, the kernel should detect the architected
PMU unit presence through the ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 register PMUVer field
before accessing them.

This patch implements a guard by reading the ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 register
PMUVer field to detect the architected PMU presence and prevent accessing
PMU system registers if the Performance Monitors extension is not
implemented in the core.

Cc: Peter Maydell &lt;peter.maydell@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 60792ad349f3 ("arm64: kernel: enforce pmuserenr_el0 initialization and restore")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2015-11-04T22:47:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-04T22:47:13+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - "genirq: Introduce generic irq migration for cpu hotunplugged" patch
   merged from tip/irq/for-arm to allow the arm64-specific part to be
   upstreamed via the arm64 tree

 - CPU feature detection reworked to cope with heterogeneous systems
   where CPUs may not have exactly the same features.  The features
   reported by the kernel via internal data structures or ELF_HWCAP are
   delayed until all the CPUs are up (and before user space starts)

 - Support for 16KB pages, with the additional bonus of a 36-bit VA
   space, though the latter only depending on EXPERT

 - Implement native {relaxed, acquire, release} atomics for arm64

 - New ASID allocation algorithm which avoids IPI on roll-over, together
   with TLB invalidation optimisations (using local vs global where
   feasible)

 - KASan support for arm64

 - EFI_STUB clean-up and isolation for the kernel proper (required by
   KASan)

 - copy_{to,from,in}_user optimisations (sharing the memcpy template)

 - perf: moving arm64 to the arm32/64 shared PMU framework

 - L1_CACHE_BYTES increased to 128 to accommodate Cavium hardware

 - Support for the contiguous PTE hint on kernel mapping (16 consecutive
   entries may be able to use a single TLB entry)

 - Generic CONFIG_HZ now used on arm64

 - defconfig updates

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (91 commits)
  arm64/efi: fix libstub build under CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
  ARM64: Enable multi-core scheduler support by default
  arm64/efi: move arm64 specific stub C code to libstub
  arm64: page-align sections for DEBUG_RODATA
  arm64: Fix build with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=n
  arm64: Fix compat register mappings
  arm64: Increase the max granular size
  arm64: remove bogus TASK_SIZE_64 check
  arm64: make Timer Interrupt Frequency selectable
  arm64/mm: use PAGE_ALIGNED instead of IS_ALIGNED
  arm64: cachetype: fix definitions of ICACHEF_* flags
  arm64: cpufeature: declare enable_cpu_capabilities as static
  genirq: Make the cpuhotplug migration code less noisy
  arm64: Constify hwcap name string arrays
  arm64/kvm: Make use of the system wide safe values
  arm64/debug: Make use of the system wide safe value
  arm64: Move FP/ASIMD hwcap handling to common code
  arm64/HWCAP: Use system wide safe values
  arm64/capabilities: Make use of system wide safe value
  arm64: Delay cpu feature capability checks
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - "genirq: Introduce generic irq migration for cpu hotunplugged" patch
   merged from tip/irq/for-arm to allow the arm64-specific part to be
   upstreamed via the arm64 tree

 - CPU feature detection reworked to cope with heterogeneous systems
   where CPUs may not have exactly the same features.  The features
   reported by the kernel via internal data structures or ELF_HWCAP are
   delayed until all the CPUs are up (and before user space starts)

 - Support for 16KB pages, with the additional bonus of a 36-bit VA
   space, though the latter only depending on EXPERT

 - Implement native {relaxed, acquire, release} atomics for arm64

 - New ASID allocation algorithm which avoids IPI on roll-over, together
   with TLB invalidation optimisations (using local vs global where
   feasible)

 - KASan support for arm64

 - EFI_STUB clean-up and isolation for the kernel proper (required by
   KASan)

 - copy_{to,from,in}_user optimisations (sharing the memcpy template)

 - perf: moving arm64 to the arm32/64 shared PMU framework

 - L1_CACHE_BYTES increased to 128 to accommodate Cavium hardware

 - Support for the contiguous PTE hint on kernel mapping (16 consecutive
   entries may be able to use a single TLB entry)

 - Generic CONFIG_HZ now used on arm64

 - defconfig updates

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (91 commits)
  arm64/efi: fix libstub build under CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
  ARM64: Enable multi-core scheduler support by default
  arm64/efi: move arm64 specific stub C code to libstub
  arm64: page-align sections for DEBUG_RODATA
  arm64: Fix build with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=n
  arm64: Fix compat register mappings
  arm64: Increase the max granular size
  arm64: remove bogus TASK_SIZE_64 check
  arm64: make Timer Interrupt Frequency selectable
  arm64/mm: use PAGE_ALIGNED instead of IS_ALIGNED
  arm64: cachetype: fix definitions of ICACHEF_* flags
  arm64: cpufeature: declare enable_cpu_capabilities as static
  genirq: Make the cpuhotplug migration code less noisy
  arm64: Constify hwcap name string arrays
  arm64/kvm: Make use of the system wide safe values
  arm64/debug: Make use of the system wide safe value
  arm64: Move FP/ASIMD hwcap handling to common code
  arm64/HWCAP: Use system wide safe values
  arm64/capabilities: Make use of system wide safe value
  arm64: Delay cpu feature capability checks
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Check for selected granule support</title>
<updated>2015-10-19T16:54:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K. Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-19T13:19:35+00:00</published>
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Ensure that the selected page size is supported by the CPU(s). If it doesn't
park it.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Ensure that the selected page size is supported by the CPU(s). If it doesn't
park it.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: Handle 4 level page table for swapper</title>
<updated>2015-10-19T16:53:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K. Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-19T13:19:31+00:00</published>
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At the moment, we only support maximum of 3-level page table for
swapper. With 48bit VA, 64K has only 3 levels and 4K uses section
mapping. Add support for 4-level page table for swapper, needed
by 16K pages.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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At the moment, we only support maximum of 3-level page table for
swapper. With 48bit VA, 64K has only 3 levels and 4K uses section
mapping. Add support for 4-level page table for swapper, needed
by 16K pages.

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Move swapper pagetable definitions</title>
<updated>2015-10-19T16:52:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K. Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-19T13:19:27+00:00</published>
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Move the kernel pagetable (both swapper and idmap) definitions
from the generic asm/page.h to a new file, asm/kernel-pgtable.h.

This is mostly a cosmetic change, to clean up the asm/page.h to
get rid of the arch specific details which are not needed by the
generic code.

Also renames the symbols to prevent conflicts. e.g,
 	BLOCK_SHIFT =&gt; SWAPPER_BLOCK_SHIFT

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Move the kernel pagetable (both swapper and idmap) definitions
from the generic asm/page.h to a new file, asm/kernel-pgtable.h.

This is mostly a cosmetic change, to clean up the asm/page.h to
get rid of the arch specific details which are not needed by the
generic code.

Also renames the symbols to prevent conflicts. e.g,
 	BLOCK_SHIFT =&gt; SWAPPER_BLOCK_SHIFT

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: add KASAN support</title>
<updated>2015-10-12T16:46:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ryabinin</name>
<email>ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-12T15:52:58+00:00</published>
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This patch adds arch specific code for kernel address sanitizer
(see Documentation/kasan.txt).

1/8 of kernel addresses reserved for shadow memory. There was no
big enough hole for this, so virtual addresses for shadow were
stolen from vmalloc area.

At early boot stage the whole shadow region populated with just
one physical page (kasan_zero_page). Later, this page reused
as readonly zero shadow for some memory that KASan currently
don't track (vmalloc).
After mapping the physical memory, pages for shadow memory are
allocated and mapped.

Functions like memset/memmove/memcpy do a lot of memory accesses.
If bad pointer passed to one of these function it is important
to catch this. Compiler's instrumentation cannot do this since
these functions are written in assembly.
KASan replaces memory functions with manually instrumented variants.
Original functions declared as weak symbols so strong definitions
in mm/kasan/kasan.c could replace them. Original functions have aliases
with '__' prefix in name, so we could call non-instrumented variant
if needed.
Some files built without kasan instrumentation (e.g. mm/slub.c).
Original mem* function replaced (via #define) with prefixed variants
to disable memory access checks for such files.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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This patch adds arch specific code for kernel address sanitizer
(see Documentation/kasan.txt).

1/8 of kernel addresses reserved for shadow memory. There was no
big enough hole for this, so virtual addresses for shadow were
stolen from vmalloc area.

At early boot stage the whole shadow region populated with just
one physical page (kasan_zero_page). Later, this page reused
as readonly zero shadow for some memory that KASan currently
don't track (vmalloc).
After mapping the physical memory, pages for shadow memory are
allocated and mapped.

Functions like memset/memmove/memcpy do a lot of memory accesses.
If bad pointer passed to one of these function it is important
to catch this. Compiler's instrumentation cannot do this since
these functions are written in assembly.
KASan replaces memory functions with manually instrumented variants.
Original functions declared as weak symbols so strong definitions
in mm/kasan/kasan.c could replace them. Original functions have aliases
with '__' prefix in name, so we could call non-instrumented variant
if needed.
Some files built without kasan instrumentation (e.g. mm/slub.c).
Original mem* function replaced (via #define) with prefixed variants
to disable memory access checks for such files.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/efi: isolate EFI stub from the kernel proper</title>
<updated>2015-10-12T15:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-08T19:02:04+00:00</published>
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Since arm64 does not use a builtin decompressor, the EFI stub is built
into the kernel proper. So far, this has been working fine, but actually,
since the stub is in fact a PE/COFF relocatable binary that is executed
at an unknown offset in the 1:1 mapping provided by the UEFI firmware, we
should not be seamlessly sharing code with the kernel proper, which is a
position dependent executable linked at a high virtual offset.

So instead, separate the contents of libstub and its dependencies, by
putting them into their own namespace by prefixing all of its symbols
with __efistub. This way, we have tight control over what parts of the
kernel proper are referenced by the stub.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Since arm64 does not use a builtin decompressor, the EFI stub is built
into the kernel proper. So far, this has been working fine, but actually,
since the stub is in fact a PE/COFF relocatable binary that is executed
at an unknown offset in the 1:1 mapping provided by the UEFI firmware, we
should not be seamlessly sharing code with the kernel proper, which is a
position dependent executable linked at a high virtual offset.

So instead, separate the contents of libstub and its dependencies, by
putting them into their own namespace by prefixing all of its symbols
with __efistub. This way, we have tight control over what parts of the
kernel proper are referenced by the stub.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: el2_setup: Make sure ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE sticks before using GICv3 sysregs</title>
<updated>2015-10-09T21:16:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-30T10:39:59+00:00</published>
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Contrary to what was originally expected, EL3 firmware can (for whatever
reason) disable GICv3 system register access. In this case, the kernel
explodes very early.

Work around this by testing if the SRE bit sticks or not. If it doesn't,
abort the GICv3 setup, and pray that the firmware has passed a DT that
doesn't contain a GICv3 node.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Contrary to what was originally expected, EL3 firmware can (for whatever
reason) disable GICv3 system register access. In this case, the kernel
explodes very early.

Work around this by testing if the SRE bit sticks or not. If it doesn't,
abort the GICv3 setup, and pray that the firmware has passed a DT that
doesn't contain a GICv3 node.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: head.S: initialise mdcr_el2 in el2_setup</title>
<updated>2015-09-15T14:50:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-02T17:49:28+00:00</published>
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When entering the kernel at EL2, we fail to initialise the MDCR_EL2
register which controls debug access and PMU capabilities at EL1.

This patch ensures that the register is initialised so that all traps
are disabled and all the PMU counters are available to the host. When a
guest is scheduled, KVM takes care to configure trapping appropriately.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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When entering the kernel at EL2, we fail to initialise the MDCR_EL2
register which controls debug access and PMU capabilities at EL1.

This patch ensures that the register is initialised so that all traps
are disabled and all the PMU counters are available to the host. When a
guest is scheduled, KVM takes care to configure trapping appropriately.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: mm: ensure patched kernel text is fetched from PoU</title>
<updated>2015-08-05T09:05:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-04T16:49:36+00:00</published>
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The arm64 booting document requires that the bootloader has cleaned the
kernel image to the PoC. However, when a CPU re-enters the kernel due to
either a CPU hotplug "on" event or resuming from a low-power state (e.g.
cpuidle), the kernel text may in-fact be dirty at the PoU due to things
like alternative patching or even module loading.

Thanks to I-cache speculation with the MMU off, stale instructions could
be fetched prior to enabling the MMU, potentially leading to crashes
when executing regions of code that have been modified at runtime.

This patch addresses the issue by ensuring that the local I-cache is
invalidated immediately after a CPU has enabled its MMU but before
jumping out of the identity mapping. Any stale instructions fetched from
the PoC will then be discarded and refetched correctly from the PoU.
Patching kernel text executed prior to the MMU being enabled is
prohibited, so the early entry code will always be clean.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The arm64 booting document requires that the bootloader has cleaned the
kernel image to the PoC. However, when a CPU re-enters the kernel due to
either a CPU hotplug "on" event or resuming from a low-power state (e.g.
cpuidle), the kernel text may in-fact be dirty at the PoU due to things
like alternative patching or even module loading.

Thanks to I-cache speculation with the MMU off, stale instructions could
be fetched prior to enabling the MMU, potentially leading to crashes
when executing regions of code that have been modified at runtime.

This patch addresses the issue by ensuring that the local I-cache is
invalidated immediately after a CPU has enabled its MMU but before
jumping out of the identity mapping. Any stale instructions fetched from
the PoC will then be discarded and refetched correctly from the PoU.
Patching kernel text executed prior to the MMU being enabled is
prohibited, so the early entry code will always be clean.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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