[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 05/10] sandbox: Allow to execute from RAM

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Jun 22 19:28:14 UTC 2018


On 22 June 2018 at 06:44, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
> With efi_loader, we may want to execute payloads from RAM. By default,
> permissions on the RAM region don't allow us to execute from there though.
>
> So let's change the default allocation scheme for RAM to also allow
> execution from it. That way payloads that live in U-Boot RAM can be
> directly executed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
>
> ---
>
> v4 -> v5:
>
>   - Replace runtime mprotect() mechanism with mmap() flag
> ---
>  arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

That looks a lot better to me.

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>


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