Hi Ilias, On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 00:17, Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodi...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Hi! > This is v1 of [0]. > > This is an attempt to map the U-Boot binary properly, but leave the > area we load binaries unaffected and RWX. > > There's a few changes since the RFC > - Fixed the alignment of meminfo command when printing regions > - 'meminfo' now prints arch specific attributes e.g PXN, UXN etc for arm > instead of RW, RO, RX > - Since we don't set the permissions of EFI runtime services yet and keep > them as RWX, I removed the linker alignment changes which makes patch #3 > easier to review. It's worth noting that qemu-arm sbsa was crashing with > the efi services page aligned. This is probably due to a mismatch of > memory, since the crash is only reproducible with QEMU instances that > have < 2 GB of RAM. I'll fix that along with the efi runtime services > - Defined memory attribute changes properly with an enum for RW, RO, RX > instead of the hardcoded '1,2,3' I had on the RFC > - Enabling mappings is now under a Kconfig (CONFIG_MMU_PGPROT), since > peope reported crashes when testing this, which are orthogonal to this > patch. We still have places in U-Boot where we define and later write > const variables. This will lead to a crash now as const variables are > properly managed and places in RO memory > - Split patches to be easier to review > - Added a patch updating 'meminfo' > - Picked up acked-by tags from Jerome > > patch #1 adds printing capabilities for page mappings in 'meminfo' > patch #2 adds documention in 'meminfo' command > patch #3 prepares linker scripts, aligns sections in page boundaries etc > patch #4 prepares an internal function to change the PTEs > patch #5 adds function definitions & stubs for all archs > patch #6 wires up the changes in U-Boot after it relocates > > [0] > https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20250130072100.27297-1-ilias.apalodi...@linaro.org/ > > Ilias Apalodimas (6): > meminfo: add memory details for armv8 > doc: update meminfo with arch specific information > arm: Prepare linker scripts for memory permissions > arm64: mmu_change_region_attr() add an option not to break PTEs > treewide: Add a function to change page permissions > arm64: Enable RW, RX and RO mappings for the relocated binary > > arch/arc/lib/cache.c | 2 + > arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/cache.c | 2 + > arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c | 1 + > arch/arm/cpu/armv7m/cache.c | 2 + > arch/arm/cpu/armv8/cache_v8.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++-- > arch/arm/cpu/armv8/fsl-layerscape/cpu.c | 10 ++-- > arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds | 29 +++++----- > arch/arm/include/asm/armv8/mmu.h | 2 + > arch/arm/include/asm/system.h | 11 +++- > arch/arm/lib/cache.c | 2 + > arch/arm/mach-snapdragon/board.c | 2 +- > arch/m68k/lib/cache.c | 2 + > arch/nios2/lib/cache.c | 2 + > arch/powerpc/lib/cache.c | 2 + > arch/riscv/lib/cache.c | 2 + > arch/sh/cpu/sh4/cache.c | 2 + > arch/xtensa/lib/cache.c | 2 + > cmd/meminfo.c | 5 ++ > common/Kconfig | 13 +++++ > common/board_r.c | 20 +++++++ > doc/usage/cmd/meminfo.rst | 71 ++++++++++++++++++------- > include/asm-generic/sections.h | 2 + > include/cpu_func.h | 16 ++++++ > 23 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.47.2 >
Can you please explain what problem this fixes, in your cover letter, to match your series subject? I don't doubt there is a big problem, but I'm not sure what it is? Regards, Simon
