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

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Sat Jan 23 2021 - 09:20:43 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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@xxxxxxx>