Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] amr64: map FDT as RW for early_init_dt_scan()

From: Nicolas Boichat
Date: Sun May 19 2019 - 20:00:29 EST


s/amr64/arm64/ in the commit title.

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 1:09 AM Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently in arm64, FDT is mapped to RO before it's passed to
> early_init_dt_scan(). However, there might be some code that needs
> to modify FDT during init.

I'd give a specific example (i.e. mention the next commit that
introduces rng-seed).

> Map FDT to RW until unflatten DT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> change log v2->v4:
> * v3 abandoned
> * add an arg pgprot_t to fixmap_remap_fdt()
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++++-
> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 4 ++--
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h
> index 67ef25d037ea..4499cb00ece7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h
> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ extern void init_mem_pgprot(void);
> extern void create_pgd_mapping(struct mm_struct *mm, phys_addr_t phys,
> unsigned long virt, phys_addr_t size,
> pgprot_t prot, bool page_mappings_only);
> -extern void *fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys);
> +extern void *fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys, pgprot_t prot);
> extern void mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void);
>
> #define INIT_MM_CONTEXT(name) \
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> index 413d566405d1..064df3de1d14 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static void __init smp_build_mpidr_hash(void)
>
> static void __init setup_machine_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys)
> {
> - void *dt_virt = fixmap_remap_fdt(dt_phys);
> + void *dt_virt = fixmap_remap_fdt(dt_phys, PAGE_KERNEL);
> const char *name;
>
> if (!dt_virt || !early_init_dt_scan(dt_virt)) {
> @@ -320,6 +320,9 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
> /* Parse the ACPI tables for possible boot-time configuration */
> acpi_boot_table_init();
>
> + /* remap fdt to RO */
> + fixmap_remap_fdt(__fdt_pointer, PAGE_KERNEL_RO);
> +
> if (acpi_disabled)
> unflatten_device_tree();
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index a170c6369a68..29648e86f7e5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -940,12 +940,12 @@ void *__init __fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys, int *size, pgprot_t prot)
> return dt_virt;
> }
>
> -void *__init fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys)
> +void *__init fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys, pgprot_t prot)
> {
> void *dt_virt;
> int size;
>
> - dt_virt = __fixmap_remap_fdt(dt_phys, &size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO);
> + dt_virt = __fixmap_remap_fdt(dt_phys, &size, prot);
> if (!dt_virt)
> return NULL;
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>