Re: [PATCH] ARM: decompressor: clean decompressed kernel from cache twice on v7
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-02-05 08:55:24
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 14:03, Ard Biesheuvel [off-list ref] wrote:
Commit 5a29552af92dbd62 ("ARM: 9052/1: decompressor: cover BSS in cache
clean and reorder with MMU disable on v7") moved cleaning of the kernel
image to after the point where the MMU and caches are disabled, which is
more in line with the architectural requirements. Unfortunately, doing
so caused a regression on Clang builds, crashing before any diagnostic
output is printed.
Given that the full cleaning the cache afterwards is required in any
case, let's reinstate the original cache clean of just the decompressed
image occurring beforehand, amounting to a partial revert of the commit
in question. Doing so has been confirmed by the reporter of the
regression to mitigate it.
Fixes: 5a29552af92dbd62 ("ARM: 9052/1: decompressor: cover BSS in ...")
Reported-by: "kernelci.org bot" <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>Please disregard this patch - this turns out to be an interoperability issue with LLVM ld.lld
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S index 5c97d341de6b..4e49ac64bf49 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S@@ -616,14 +616,18 @@ not_relocated: mov r0, #0 @ operations on the range [R0, R1], making this prior call to @ cache_clean_flush() redundant. In other cases, the clean is @ performed by set/way and R0/R1 are ignored. + @ However, not performing the redundant cache clean before + @ turning the MMU and caches off has been observed to cause + @ regressions, so on v7+ systems, the decompressed kernel image + @ is cleaned twice. @ - mov r0, #0 - mov r1, #0 + get_inflated_image_size r6, r2, r3 + mov r0, r4 @ start of decompressed kernel + add r1, r0, r6 @ end of decompressed kernel bl cache_clean_flush - get_inflated_image_size r1, r2, r3 ldr r2, =_kernel_bss_size - add r1, r1, r2 + add r1, r2, r6 mov r0, r4 @ start of decompressed kernel add r1, r1, r0 @ end of kernel BSS --2.20.1
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