[PATCH 3/3] Enable storage keys for radix - user mode execution

Balbir Singh bsingharora at gmail.com
Wed Nov 2 00:38:20 AEDT 2016


ISA 3 defines new encoded access authority that allows instruction
access prevention in privileged mode and allows normal access
to problem state. This patch just enables IAMR (Instruction Authority
Mask Register), enabling AMR would require more work.

I've tested this with a buggy driver and a simple payload. The payload
is specific to the build I've tested.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
index 0fdd8ed..cd3d400 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
@@ -339,6 +339,24 @@ static void __init radix_init_amor(void)
 	mtspr(SPRN_AMOR, amor);
 }
 
+/*
+ * For radix page tables we setup, the IAMR values as follows
+ * IMAR = 0100...00 (key 0 is set to 1)
+ * AMR, UAMR, UAMOR are not affected
+ */
+static void __init radix_init_iamr(void)
+{
+	unsigned long iamr_mask = 0x4000000000000000;
+	unsigned long iamr = mfspr(SPRN_IAMR);
+
+	if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_POWER9_DD1))
+		return;
+
+	iamr |= iamr_mask;
+
+	mtspr(SPRN_IAMR, iamr);
+}
+
 void __init radix__early_init_mmu(void)
 {
 	unsigned long lpcr;
@@ -398,6 +416,7 @@ void __init radix__early_init_mmu(void)
 		radix_init_amor();
 	}
 
+	radix_init_iamr();
 	radix_init_pgtable();
 }
 
-- 
2.5.5



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