Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2024-10-04
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[PATCH] arm64: dts: broadcom: bcmbca: bcm4908: Reserve CFE stub area

From: Sam Edwards <hidden>
Date: 2024-10-03 21:31:46
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Subsystem: broadcom bcmbca arm architecture, the rest · Maintainers: William Zhang, Anand Gore, Kursad Oney, Florian Fainelli, Rafał Miłecki, Linus Torvalds

The CFE bootloader places a stub program at 0x0000-0xFFFF to hold the
secondary CPUs until the boot CPU writes the release address. If Linux
overwrites this program before execution reaches smp_prepare_cpus(), the
secondary CPUs may become inaccessible.

This is only a problem with CFE, and then only until the secondary CPUs
are brought online. However, since it is such a small amount of memory,
it is easiest to reserve it unconditionally.

Therefore, add a /reserved-memory node to bcm4908.dtsi to protect this
critical memory region.

Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcmbca/bcm4908.dtsi | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcmbca/bcm4908.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcmbca/bcm4908.dtsi
index 8b924812322c..326f84f746cb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcmbca/bcm4908.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcmbca/bcm4908.dtsi
@@ -68,6 +68,16 @@ l2: l2-cache0 {
 		};
 	};
 
+	reserved-memory {
+		#address-cells = <2>;
+		#size-cells = <2>;
+		ranges;
+
+		cfe-stub@0 {
+			reg = <0 0 0 0x10000>;
+		};
+	};
+
 	axi@81000000 {
 		compatible = "simple-bus";
 		#address-cells = <1>;
-- 
2.44.2

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