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Subject[PATCH v2 4/4] arm: replace vector mem type with read-only type
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Since kernel no longer writes to the vector, try to replace
the vector mem type with read-only type and remove L_PTE_MT_VECTORS.

from Catalin in [1]:
"
> I don't think this matters since the kernel no longer writes to the
> vectors page at run-time but it needs cleaning up a bit (and testing in
> case I missed something). IOW, do we still need a dedicated mapping type
> for the vectors or we can simply use the read-only user page attributes?
"

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/986574/

Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h | 1 -
arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 7 +++----
arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
index 385e7a32394e..438359d3675f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@
#define L_PTE_MT_WRITETHROUGH (_AT(pteval_t, 0x02) << 2) /* 0010 */
#define L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK (_AT(pteval_t, 0x03) << 2) /* 0011 */
#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x04) << 2) /* 0100 */
-#define L_PTE_MT_VECTORS (_AT(pteval_t, 0x05) << 2) /* 0101 */
#define L_PTE_MT_MINICACHE (_AT(pteval_t, 0x06) << 2) /* 0110 (sa1100, xscale) */
#define L_PTE_MT_WRITEALLOC (_AT(pteval_t, 0x07) << 2) /* 0111 */
#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_V7) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_V6) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_V6K)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
index ab69250a86bc..0b6b377e2cce 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -536,12 +536,11 @@ static void __init build_mem_type_table(void)

#ifndef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
/*
- * We don't use domains on ARMv6 (since this causes problems with
- * v6/v7 kernels), so we must use a separate memory type for user
- * r/o, kernel r/w to map the vectors page.
+ * We no longer write to the vector pages ar run-time, to
+ * use read-only user page attribute for vector.
*/
if (cpu_arch == CPU_ARCH_ARMv6)
- vecs_pgprot |= L_PTE_MT_VECTORS;
+ vecs_pgprot |= L_PTE_RDONLY;

/*
* Check is it with support for the PXN bit
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
index dde1d6374250..f3e6551b4a7e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
.long PTE_CACHEABLE @ L_PTE_MT_WRITETHROUGH
.long PTE_CACHEABLE | PTE_BUFFERABLE @ L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK
.long PTE_BUFFERABLE @ L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED
- .long PTE_CACHEABLE | PTE_BUFFERABLE | PTE_EXT_APX @ L_PTE_MT_VECTORS
+ .long 0x00 @ unused
.long 0x00 @ L_PTE_MT_MINICACHE (not present)
.long PTE_EXT_TEX(1) | PTE_CACHEABLE | PTE_BUFFERABLE @ L_PTE_MT_WRITEALLOC
.long 0x00 @ unused
--
2.18.0
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