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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2018-01-29 11:59:58 +0000
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2018-02-06 22:53:23 +0000
commitf167211a93ac41a65b7a0ab79d4479d0fb58c4f1 (patch)
treefd77b5377285f3823e1cdb542521f75b88a0b04c /arch
parentfa0465fc07c2f9f47bd1198ab368d341bd7c7e4e (diff)
downloadlinux-f167211a93ac41a65b7a0ab79d4479d0fb58c4f1.tar.bz2
arm64: entry: Reword comment about post_ttbr_update_workaround
We don't fully understand the Cavium ThunderX erratum, but it appears that mapping the kernel as nG can lead to horrible consequences such as attempting to execute userspace from kernel context. Since kpti isn't enabled for these CPUs anyway, simplify the comment justifying the lack of post_ttbr_update_workaround in the exception trampoline. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S13
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index b34e717d7597..9b8635d9d7ae 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -1013,16 +1013,9 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
orr \tmp, \tmp, #USER_ASID_FLAG
msr ttbr1_el1, \tmp
/*
- * We avoid running the post_ttbr_update_workaround here because the
- * user and kernel ASIDs don't have conflicting mappings, so any
- * "blessing" as described in:
- *
- * http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56BB848A.6060603@caviumnetworks.com
- *
- * will not hurt correctness. Whilst this may partially defeat the
- * point of using split ASIDs in the first place, it avoids
- * the hit of invalidating the entire I-cache on every return to
- * userspace.
+ * We avoid running the post_ttbr_update_workaround here because
+ * it's only needed by Cavium ThunderX, which requires KPTI to be
+ * disabled.
*/
.endm