[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] ARM: mmu: Set domain permissions to client access - build warnings!

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Sat Mar 2 23:46:20 CET 2013


Hi Sricharan,

On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:08:20 +0000, "R, Sricharan" <r.sricharan at ti.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tom/Albert,
> ________________________________________
> From: Rini, Tom
> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 7:51 PM
> To: Albert ARIBAUD
> Cc: R, Sricharan; U-Boot; Stehle, Vincent
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] ARM: mmu: Set domain permissions to client access - build warnings!
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> On 03/01/2013 02:45 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > Hi Sricharan,
> >
> > On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:57:25 +0530, Sricharan R
> > <r.sricharan at ti.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Albert,
> >>
> >> On Thursday 28 February 2013 08:35 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:20:44 +0100, Albert ARIBAUD
> >>> <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> (sorry for any duplicate of this mail)
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi R Sricharan,
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 23:38:22 +0530, R
> >>>> Sricharan<r.sricharan at ti.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Currently for ARM based cpu's, mmu pagetable attributes are
> >>>>> set with manager permissions for all 4GB address space.
> >>>>> Because of this the 'execute never (XN)' permission is
> >>>>> never checked on read sensitive regions which results in
> >>>>> speculative aborts.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This series changes the domain permissions of the full 4GB
> >>>>> space to client access for OMAP socs. This avoids all the
> >>>>> speculative aborts that are currently seen on OMAP5 secure
> >>>>> devices.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tested on OMAP5 SDP (HS) soc.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This series depends on [1] the patch sent by <Vincent
> >>>>> Stehle<v-stehle at ti.com>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [1]
> >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg102709.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> R Sricharan (2):
> >>>>> ARM: mmu: Introduce weak dram_bank_setup function ARM: mmu:
> >>>>> Set domain permissions to client access
> >>>>>
> >>>>> arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c                  |    3 ++
> >>>>> arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/hwinit-common.c |   35
> >>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
> >>>>> |    1 + arch/arm/include/asm/system.h                  |
> >>>>> 14 ++++++++++ arch/arm/lib/cache-cp15.c
> >>>>> |   13 ++++++++- 5 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 1
> >>>>> deletion(-)
> >>>>>
> >>>> Series applied to u-boot-arm/master, thanks!
> >>> Correction: I'd wrongly inferred from the testing done on OMAP5
> >>> that the series would build fine. However it appears that for
> >>> targets omap4_sdp4430, omap4_panda and omap5_evm, patch 2/2 has
> >>> warnings:
> >>>
> >>> hwinit-common.c: In function 'dram_bank_mmu_setup':
> >>> hwinit-common.c:279:3: warning: implicit declaration of
> >>> function 'set_section_dcache'
> >>> [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> >>>
> >>> Luckily, I had not committed to the git repo yet.
> >>>
> >>> R Sicharan, can you please check and fix this warning?
> >>>
> >>> Amicalement,
> >> Oh, thats because as i mentioned above, it depends on the below
> >> patch from vincent .
> >>
> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg102709.html
> >>
> >> I did not repost it though.  I will do it now for clarity.
> >
> > Ok -- Vincent's patch was not in my Patchwork TODO and I had read
> > patches 1/2 and 2/2 in Patchwork, but I had not read the cover
> > letter thoroughly enough so I had missed the dependency.
> >
> > (Cc:ing Vincent and Tom)
> >
> > Vincent's patch series is delegated to Tom and marked "superseded"
> > in Patchwork but I don't see any later, superseding, series. What
> > can/should I make of it?
> 
> > It's possible I mis-read things and it shouldn't be superseded.  Can
> > you list all of the patches that Albert should apply please?  Thanks!
> 
>  Sorry, i should have mentioned this clearly previously.
> 
>   I reposted it again. (ie) only the below patch from Vincent should be applied first.
>     http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg107190.html
> 
>  Apologies for the confusion..

Just to be clear: to apply Sricharan's series, patch 1/3 of Vincent's
series is reqired, but I think Vincent's series should be applied in one
go, not patch by patch. Basically, this means we need Vincent's series
to be applied first, then we can apply Sricharan's.

> Regards,
>  Sricharan


Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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