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diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9c4d388daddc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt @@ -0,0 +1,152 @@ + Booting AArch64 Linux + ===================== + +Author: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> +Date : 07 September 2012 + +This document is based on the ARM booting document by Russell King and +is relevant to all public releases of the AArch64 Linux kernel. + +The AArch64 exception model is made up of a number of exception levels +(EL0 - EL3), with EL0 and EL1 having a secure and a non-secure +counterpart. EL2 is the hypervisor level and exists only in non-secure +mode. EL3 is the highest priority level and exists only in secure mode. + +For the purposes of this document, we will use the term `boot loader' +simply to define all software that executes on the CPU(s) before control +is passed to the Linux kernel. This may include secure monitor and +hypervisor code, or it may just be a handful of instructions for +preparing a minimal boot environment. + +Essentially, the boot loader should provide (as a minimum) the +following: + +1. Setup and initialise the RAM +2. Setup the device tree +3. Decompress the kernel image +4. Call the kernel image + + +1. Setup and initialise RAM +--------------------------- + +Requirement: MANDATORY + +The boot loader is expected to find and initialise all RAM that the +kernel will use for volatile data storage in the system. It performs +this in a machine dependent manner. (It may use internal algorithms +to automatically locate and size all RAM, or it may use knowledge of +the RAM in the machine, or any other method the boot loader designer +sees fit.) + + +2. Setup the device tree +------------------------- + +Requirement: MANDATORY + +The device tree blob (dtb) must be no bigger than 2 megabytes in size +and placed at a 2-megabyte boundary within the first 512 megabytes from +the start of the kernel image. This is to allow the kernel to map the +blob using a single section mapping in the initial page tables. + + +3. Decompress the kernel image +------------------------------ + +Requirement: OPTIONAL + +The AArch64 kernel does not currently provide a decompressor and +therefore requires decompression (gzip etc.) to be performed by the boot +loader if a compressed Image target (e.g. Image.gz) is used. For +bootloaders that do not implement this requirement, the uncompressed +Image target is available instead. + + +4. Call the kernel image +------------------------ + +Requirement: MANDATORY + +The decompressed kernel image contains a 32-byte header as follows: + + u32 magic = 0x14000008; /* branch to stext, little-endian */ + u32 res0 = 0; /* reserved */ + u64 text_offset; /* Image load offset */ + u64 res1 = 0; /* reserved */ + u64 res2 = 0; /* reserved */ + +The image must be placed at the specified offset (currently 0x80000) +from the start of the system RAM and called there. The start of the +system RAM must be aligned to 2MB. + +Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met: + +- Quiesce all DMA capable devices so that memory does not get + corrupted by bogus network packets or disk data. This will save + you many hours of debug. + +- Primary CPU general-purpose register settings + x0 = physical address of device tree blob (dtb) in system RAM. + x1 = 0 (reserved for future use) + x2 = 0 (reserved for future use) + x3 = 0 (reserved for future use) + +- CPU mode + All forms of interrupts must be masked in PSTATE.DAIF (Debug, SError, + IRQ and FIQ). + The CPU must be in either EL2 (RECOMMENDED in order to have access to + the virtualisation extensions) or non-secure EL1. + +- Caches, MMUs + The MMU must be off. + Instruction cache may be on or off. + Data cache must be off and invalidated. + External caches (if present) must be configured and disabled. + +- Architected timers + CNTFRQ must be programmed with the timer frequency. + If entering the kernel at EL1, CNTHCTL_EL2 must have EL1PCTEN (bit 0) + set where available. + +- Coherency + All CPUs to be booted by the kernel must be part of the same coherency + domain on entry to the kernel. This may require IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED + initialisation to enable the receiving of maintenance operations on + each CPU. + +- System registers + All writable architected system registers at the exception level where + the kernel image will be entered must be initialised by software at a + higher exception level to prevent execution in an UNKNOWN state. + +The boot loader is expected to enter the kernel on each CPU in the +following manner: + +- The primary CPU must jump directly to the first instruction of the + kernel image. The device tree blob passed by this CPU must contain + for each CPU node: + + 1. An 'enable-method' property. Currently, the only supported value + for this field is the string "spin-table". + + 2. A 'cpu-release-addr' property identifying a 64-bit, + zero-initialised memory location. + + It is expected that the bootloader will generate these device tree + properties and insert them into the blob prior to kernel entry. + +- Any secondary CPUs must spin outside of the kernel in a reserved area + of memory (communicated to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the + device tree) polling their cpu-release-addr location, which must be + contained in the reserved region. A wfe instruction may be inserted + to reduce the overhead of the busy-loop and a sev will be issued by + the primary CPU. When a read of the location pointed to by the + cpu-release-addr returns a non-zero value, the CPU must jump directly + to this value. + +- Secondary CPU general-purpose register settings + x0 = 0 (reserved for future use) + x1 = 0 (reserved for future use) + x2 = 0 (reserved for future use) + x3 = 0 (reserved for future use) diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt b/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..dbbdcbba75a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ + Memory Layout on AArch64 Linux + ============================== + +Author: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> +Date : 20 February 2012 + +This document describes the virtual memory layout used by the AArch64 +Linux kernel. The architecture allows up to 4 levels of translation +tables with a 4KB page size and up to 3 levels with a 64KB page size. + +AArch64 Linux uses 3 levels of translation tables with the 4KB page +configuration, allowing 39-bit (512GB) virtual addresses for both user +and kernel. With 64KB pages, only 2 levels of translation tables are +used but the memory layout is the same. + +User addresses have bits 63:39 set to 0 while the kernel addresses have +the same bits set to 1. TTBRx selection is given by bit 63 of the +virtual address. The swapper_pg_dir contains only kernel (global) +mappings while the user pgd contains only user (non-global) mappings. +The swapper_pgd_dir address is written to TTBR1 and never written to +TTBR0. + + +AArch64 Linux memory layout: + +Start End Size Use +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +0000000000000000 0000007fffffffff 512GB user + +ffffff8000000000 ffffffbbfffcffff ~240GB vmalloc + +ffffffbbfffd0000 ffffffbcfffdffff 64KB [guard page] + +ffffffbbfffe0000 ffffffbcfffeffff 64KB PCI I/O space + +ffffffbbffff0000 ffffffbcffffffff 64KB [guard page] + +ffffffbc00000000 ffffffbdffffffff 8GB vmemmap + +ffffffbe00000000 ffffffbffbffffff ~8GB [guard, future vmmemap] + +ffffffbffc000000 ffffffbfffffffff 64MB modules + +ffffffc000000000 ffffffffffffffff 256GB memory + + +Translation table lookup with 4KB pages: + ++--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ +|63 56|55 48|47 40|39 32|31 24|23 16|15 8|7 0| ++--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ + | | | | | | + | | | | | v + | | | | | [11:0] in-page offset + | | | | +-> [20:12] L3 index + | | | +-----------> [29:21] L2 index + | | +---------------------> [38:30] L1 index + | +-------------------------------> [47:39] L0 index (not used) + +-------------------------------------------------> [63] TTBR0/1 + + +Translation table lookup with 64KB pages: + ++--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ +|63 56|55 48|47 40|39 32|31 24|23 16|15 8|7 0| ++--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ + | | | | | + | | | | v + | | | | [15:0] in-page offset + | | | +----------> [28:16] L3 index + | | +--------------------------> [41:29] L2 index (only 38:29 used) + | +-------------------------------> [47:42] L1 index (not used) + +-------------------------------------------------> [63] TTBR0/1 |