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<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T20:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2016-01-12T20:23:33+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "Here is the core arm64 queue for 4.5.  As you might expect, the
  Christmas break resulted in a number of patches not making the final
  cut, so 4.6 is likely to be larger than usual.  There's still some
  useful stuff here, however, and it's detailed below.

  The EFI changes have been Reviewed-by Matt and the memblock change got
  an "OK" from akpm.

  Summary:

   - Support for a separate IRQ stack, although we haven't reduced the
     size of our thread stack just yet since we don't have enough data
     to determine a safe value

   - Refactoring of our EFI initialisation and runtime code into
     drivers/firmware/efi/ so that it can be reused by arch/arm/.

   - Ftrace improvements when unwinding in the function graph tracer

   - Document our silicon errata handling process

   - Cache flushing optimisation when mapping executable pages

   - Support for hugetlb mappings using the contiguous hint in the pte"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (45 commits)
  arm64: head.S: use memset to clear BSS
  efi: stub: define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING for all architectures
  arm64: entry: remove pointless SPSR mode check
  arm64: mm: move pgd_cache initialisation to pgtable_cache_init
  arm64: module: avoid undefined shift behavior in reloc_data()
  arm64: module: fix relocation of movz instruction with negative immediate
  arm64: traps: address fallout from printk -&gt; pr_* conversion
  arm64: ftrace: fix a stack tracer's output under function graph tracer
  arm64: pass a task parameter to unwind_frame()
  arm64: ftrace: modify a stack frame in a safe way
  arm64: remove irq_count and do_softirq_own_stack()
  arm64: hugetlb: add support for PTE contiguous bit
  arm64: Use PoU cache instr for I/D coherency
  arm64: Defer dcache flush in __cpu_copy_user_page
  arm64: reduce stack use in irq_handler
  arm64: mm: ensure that the zero page is visible to the page table walker
  arm64: Documentation: add list of software workarounds for errata
  arm64: mm: place __cpu_setup in .text
  arm64: cmpxchg: Don't incldue linux/mmdebug.h
  arm64: mm: fold alternatives into .init
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "Here is the core arm64 queue for 4.5.  As you might expect, the
  Christmas break resulted in a number of patches not making the final
  cut, so 4.6 is likely to be larger than usual.  There's still some
  useful stuff here, however, and it's detailed below.

  The EFI changes have been Reviewed-by Matt and the memblock change got
  an "OK" from akpm.

  Summary:

   - Support for a separate IRQ stack, although we haven't reduced the
     size of our thread stack just yet since we don't have enough data
     to determine a safe value

   - Refactoring of our EFI initialisation and runtime code into
     drivers/firmware/efi/ so that it can be reused by arch/arm/.

   - Ftrace improvements when unwinding in the function graph tracer

   - Document our silicon errata handling process

   - Cache flushing optimisation when mapping executable pages

   - Support for hugetlb mappings using the contiguous hint in the pte"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (45 commits)
  arm64: head.S: use memset to clear BSS
  efi: stub: define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING for all architectures
  arm64: entry: remove pointless SPSR mode check
  arm64: mm: move pgd_cache initialisation to pgtable_cache_init
  arm64: module: avoid undefined shift behavior in reloc_data()
  arm64: module: fix relocation of movz instruction with negative immediate
  arm64: traps: address fallout from printk -&gt; pr_* conversion
  arm64: ftrace: fix a stack tracer's output under function graph tracer
  arm64: pass a task parameter to unwind_frame()
  arm64: ftrace: modify a stack frame in a safe way
  arm64: remove irq_count and do_softirq_own_stack()
  arm64: hugetlb: add support for PTE contiguous bit
  arm64: Use PoU cache instr for I/D coherency
  arm64: Defer dcache flush in __cpu_copy_user_page
  arm64: reduce stack use in irq_handler
  arm64: mm: ensure that the zero page is visible to the page table walker
  arm64: Documentation: add list of software workarounds for errata
  arm64: mm: place __cpu_setup in .text
  arm64: cmpxchg: Don't incldue linux/mmdebug.h
  arm64: mm: fold alternatives into .init
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64: mm: fold alternatives into .init</title>
<updated>2015-12-10T17:36:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-09T12:44:38+00:00</published>
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Currently we treat the alternatives separately from other data that's
only used during initialisation, using separate .altinstructions and
.altinstr_replacement linker sections. These are freed for general
allocation separately from .init*. This is problematic as:

* We do not remove execute permissions, as we do for .init, leaving the
  memory executable.

* We pad between them, making the kernel Image bianry up to PAGE_SIZE
  bytes larger than necessary.

This patch moves the two sections into the contiguous region used for
.init*. This saves some memory, ensures that we remove execute
permissions, and allows us to remove some code made redundant by this
reorganisation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Currently we treat the alternatives separately from other data that's
only used during initialisation, using separate .altinstructions and
.altinstr_replacement linker sections. These are freed for general
allocation separately from .init*. This is problematic as:

* We do not remove execute permissions, as we do for .init, leaving the
  memory executable.

* We pad between them, making the kernel Image bianry up to PAGE_SIZE
  bytes larger than necessary.

This patch moves the two sections into the contiguous region used for
.init*. This saves some memory, ensures that we remove execute
permissions, and allows us to remove some code made redundant by this
reorganisation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Remove redundant padding from linker script</title>
<updated>2015-12-10T17:36:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-09T12:44:37+00:00</published>
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Currently we place an ALIGN_DEBUG_RO between text and data for the .text
and .init sections, and depending on configuration each of these may
result in up to SECTION_SIZE bytes worth of padding (for
DEBUG_RODATA_ALIGN).

We make no distinction between the text and data in each of these
sections at any point when creating the initial page tables in head.S.
We also make no distinction when modifying the tables; __map_memblock,
fixup_executable, mark_rodata_ro, and fixup_init only work at section
granularity. Thus this padding is unnecessary.

For the spit between init text and data we impose a minimum alignment of
16 bytes, but this is also unnecessary. The init data is output
immediately after the padding before any symbols are defined, so this is
not required to keep a symbol for linker a section array correctly
associated with the data. Any objects within the section will be given
at least their usual alignment regardless.

This patch removes the redundant padding.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Currently we place an ALIGN_DEBUG_RO between text and data for the .text
and .init sections, and depending on configuration each of these may
result in up to SECTION_SIZE bytes worth of padding (for
DEBUG_RODATA_ALIGN).

We make no distinction between the text and data in each of these
sections at any point when creating the initial page tables in head.S.
We also make no distinction when modifying the tables; __map_memblock,
fixup_executable, mark_rodata_ro, and fixup_init only work at section
granularity. Thus this padding is unnecessary.

For the spit between init text and data we impose a minimum alignment of
16 bytes, but this is also unnecessary. The init data is output
immediately after the padding before any symbols are defined, so this is
not required to keep a symbol for linker a section array correctly
associated with the data. Any objects within the section will be given
at least their usual alignment regardless.

This patch removes the redundant padding.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: update linker script to increased L1_CACHE_BYTES value</title>
<updated>2015-12-07T17:22:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-01T12:20:40+00:00</published>
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Bring the linker script in line with the recent increase of
L1_CACHE_BYTES to 128. Replace the hardcoded value of 64 with the
symbolic constant.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: fix up RW_DATA_SECTION as well]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Bring the linker script in line with the recent increase of
L1_CACHE_BYTES to 128. Replace the hardcoded value of 64 with the
symbolic constant.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: fix up RW_DATA_SECTION as well]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: page-align sections for DEBUG_RODATA</title>
<updated>2015-10-29T17:23:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-26T21:42:33+00:00</published>
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A kernel built with DEBUG_RO_DATA &amp;&amp; !CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA doesn't
have .text aligned to a page boundary, though fixup_executable works at
page-granularity thanks to its use of create_mapping. If .text is not
page-aligned, the first page it exists in may be marked non-executable,
leading to failures when an attempt is made to execute code in said
page.

This patch upgrades ALIGN_DEBUG_RO and ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN to force page
alignment for DEBUG_RO_DATA &amp;&amp; !CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA kernels,
ensuring that all sections with specific RWX permission requirements are
mapped with the correct permissions.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laura Abbott &lt;laura@labbott.name&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: da141706aea52c1a ("arm64: add better page protections to arm64")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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A kernel built with DEBUG_RO_DATA &amp;&amp; !CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA doesn't
have .text aligned to a page boundary, though fixup_executable works at
page-granularity thanks to its use of create_mapping. If .text is not
page-aligned, the first page it exists in may be marked non-executable,
leading to failures when an attempt is made to execute code in said
page.

This patch upgrades ALIGN_DEBUG_RO and ALIGN_DEBUG_RO_MIN to force page
alignment for DEBUG_RO_DATA &amp;&amp; !CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA kernels,
ensuring that all sections with specific RWX permission requirements are
mapped with the correct permissions.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laura Abbott &lt;laura@labbott.name&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: da141706aea52c1a ("arm64: add better page protections to arm64")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Move swapper pagetable definitions</title>
<updated>2015-10-19T16:52:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K. Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-19T13:19:27+00:00</published>
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Move the kernel pagetable (both swapper and idmap) definitions
from the generic asm/page.h to a new file, asm/kernel-pgtable.h.

This is mostly a cosmetic change, to clean up the asm/page.h to
get rid of the arch specific details which are not needed by the
generic code.

Also renames the symbols to prevent conflicts. e.g,
 	BLOCK_SHIFT =&gt; SWAPPER_BLOCK_SHIFT

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Move the kernel pagetable (both swapper and idmap) definitions
from the generic asm/page.h to a new file, asm/kernel-pgtable.h.

This is mostly a cosmetic change, to clean up the asm/page.h to
get rid of the arch specific details which are not needed by the
generic code.

Also renames the symbols to prevent conflicts. e.g,
 	BLOCK_SHIFT =&gt; SWAPPER_BLOCK_SHIFT

Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: reduce ID map to a single page</title>
<updated>2015-06-02T16:44:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-01T11:40:33+00:00</published>
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Commit ea8c2e112445 ("arm64: Extend the idmap to the whole kernel
image") changed the early page table code so that the entire kernel
Image is covered by the identity map. This allows functions that
need to enable or disable the MMU to reside anywhere in the kernel
Image.

However, this change has the unfortunate side effect that the Image
cannot cross a physical 512 MB alignment boundary anymore, since the
early page table code cannot deal with the Image crossing a /virtual/
512 MB alignment boundary.

So instead, reduce the ID map to a single page, that is populated by
the contents of the .idmap.text section. Only three functions reside
there at the moment: __enable_mmu(), cpu_resume_mmu() and cpu_reset().
If new code is introduced that needs to manipulate the MMU state, it
should be added to this section as well.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Commit ea8c2e112445 ("arm64: Extend the idmap to the whole kernel
image") changed the early page table code so that the entire kernel
Image is covered by the identity map. This allows functions that
need to enable or disable the MMU to reside anywhere in the kernel
Image.

However, this change has the unfortunate side effect that the Image
cannot cross a physical 512 MB alignment boundary anymore, since the
early page table code cannot deal with the Image crossing a /virtual/
512 MB alignment boundary.

So instead, reduce the ID map to a single page, that is populated by
the contents of the .idmap.text section. Only three functions reside
there at the moment: __enable_mmu(), cpu_resume_mmu() and cpu_reset().
If new code is introduced that needs to manipulate the MMU state, it
should be added to this section as well.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM, arm64: kvm: get rid of the bounce page</title>
<updated>2015-03-19T19:21:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-19T16:42:26+00:00</published>
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The HYP init bounce page is a runtime construct that ensures that the
HYP init code does not cross a page boundary. However, this is something
we can do perfectly well at build time, by aligning the code appropriately.

For arm64, we just align to 4 KB, and enforce that the code size is less
than 4 KB, regardless of the chosen page size.

For ARM, the whole code is less than 256 bytes, so we tweak the linker
script to align at a power of 2 upper bound of the code size

Note that this also fixes a benign off-by-one error in the original bounce
page code, where a bounce page would be allocated unnecessarily if the code
was exactly 1 page in size.

On ARM, it also fixes an issue with very large kernels reported by Arnd
Bergmann, where stub sections with linker emitted veneers could erroneously
trigger the size/alignment ASSERT() in the linker script.

Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The HYP init bounce page is a runtime construct that ensures that the
HYP init code does not cross a page boundary. However, this is something
we can do perfectly well at build time, by aligning the code appropriately.

For arm64, we just align to 4 KB, and enforce that the code size is less
than 4 KB, regardless of the chosen page size.

For ARM, the whole code is less than 256 bytes, so we tweak the linker
script to align at a power of 2 upper bound of the code size

Note that this also fixes a benign off-by-one error in the original bounce
page code, where a bounce page would be allocated unnecessarily if the code
was exactly 1 page in size.

On ARM, it also fixes an issue with very large kernels reported by Arnd
Bergmann, where stub sections with linker emitted veneers could erroneously
trigger the size/alignment ASSERT() in the linker script.

Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: add better page protections to arm64</title>
<updated>2015-01-22T14:54:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laura Abbott</name>
<email>lauraa@codeaurora.org</email>
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<published>2015-01-22T01:36:06+00:00</published>
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Add page protections for arm64 similar to those in arm.
This is for security reasons to prevent certain classes
of exploits. The current method:

- Map all memory as either RWX or RW. We round to the nearest
  section to avoid creating page tables before everything is mapped
- Once everything is mapped, if either end of the RWX section should
  not be X, we split the PMD and remap as necessary
- When initmem is to be freed, we change the permissions back to
  RW (using stop machine if necessary to flush the TLB)
- If CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is set, the read only sections are set
  read only.

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;lauraa@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Add page protections for arm64 similar to those in arm.
This is for security reasons to prevent certain classes
of exploits. The current method:

- Map all memory as either RWX or RW. We round to the nearest
  section to avoid creating page tables before everything is mapped
- Once everything is mapped, if either end of the RWX section should
  not be X, we split the PMD and remap as necessary
- When initmem is to be freed, we change the permissions back to
  RW (using stop machine if necessary to flush the TLB)
- If CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is set, the read only sections are set
  read only.

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;lauraa@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: vmlinux.lds.S: don't discard .exit.* sections at link-time</title>
<updated>2014-11-25T15:56:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-25T15:26:13+00:00</published>
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.exit.* sections may be subject to patching by the new alternatives
framework and so shouldn't be discarded at link-time. Without this patch,
such a section will result in the following linker error:

`.exit.text' referenced in section `.altinstructions' of
 drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of
drivers/built-in.o

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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.exit.* sections may be subject to patching by the new alternatives
framework and so shouldn't be discarded at link-time. Without this patch,
such a section will result in the following linker error:

`.exit.text' referenced in section `.altinstructions' of
 drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of
drivers/built-in.o

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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