Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm64: clean up trampoline vector loads

From: Will Deacon
Date: Tue Mar 17 2020 - 18:30:11 EST


On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 02:40:44PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> From: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis.courmont@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This switches from custom instruction patterns to the regular large
> memory model sequence with ADRP and LDR. In doing so, the ADD
> instruction can be eliminated in the SDEI handler, and the code no
> longer assumes that the trampoline vectors and the vectors address both
> start on a page boundary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis.courmont@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 9 ++++-----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> index e5d4e30ee242..24f828739696 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -805,9 +805,9 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
> 2:
> tramp_map_kernel x30
> #ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
> - adr x30, tramp_vectors + PAGE_SIZE
> + adrp x30, tramp_vectors + PAGE_SIZE
> alternative_insn isb, nop, ARM64_WORKAROUND_QCOM_FALKOR_E1003
> - ldr x30, [x30]
> + ldr x30, [x30, #:lo12:__entry_tramp_data_start]
> #else
> ldr x30, =vectors
> #endif
> @@ -953,9 +953,8 @@ SYM_CODE_START(__sdei_asm_entry_trampoline)
> 1: str x4, [x1, #(SDEI_EVENT_INTREGS + S_ORIG_ADDR_LIMIT)]
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
> - adr x4, tramp_vectors + PAGE_SIZE
> - add x4, x4, #:lo12:__sdei_asm_trampoline_next_handler
> - ldr x4, [x4]
> + adrp x4, tramp_vectors + PAGE_SIZE
> + ldr x4, [x4, #:lo12:__sdei_asm_trampoline_next_handler]
> #else
> ldr x4, =__sdei_asm_handler
> #endif

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

Will