Messages in this thread | | | From | Marc Zyngier <> | Subject | [PATCH 00/16] arm/arm64: Workaround misprogrammed CNTFRQ | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:14:32 +0100 |
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It is an unfortunate situation that CNTFRQ{,_EL0} is often misprogrammed from the firmware side, leaving it up to the kernel to work around it. This is usually done by providing an alternative frequency in the Device Tree.
Unfortunately, CNTFRQ is accessible from EL0, giving userspace the wrong frequency, and potentially a different frequency per CPU, which is definitely not what you want. A possible workaround is to trap this into the kernel and to emulate it (together with the VDSO being disabled), and this is what this series is achieving.
As it is obvious from the shortlog below, most of the required code is actually architecture specific, and required to handle these traps properly.
On arm64, we mostly have things in order already for AArch64 code. But we lack the infrastructure to deal with cp15 traps from a 32bit userspace. We could do it by reading userspace the userspace code and use the undef_hook mechanism, but that's clearly very ugly.
Instead, we mimic the way we trap system register accesses for 64bit code. An added complexity comes from the fact that we need to handle condition execution in both ARM and Thumb modes (including the IT state) when trapping such accesses.
32bit ARM is also lacking any form of conditional Thumb handling, so we add that before adding the undef handlers.
This has been tested as KVM guests, using kvmtool and the --override-bad-firmware-cntfrq option to trick the VM into using a different frequency.
Marc Zyngier (16): arm64: Use arch_timer_get_rate when trapping CNTFRQ_EL0 arm64: Add decoding macros for CP15_32 and CP15_64 traps arm64: compat: Add separate CP15 trapping hook arm64: compat: Add condition code checks and IT advance arm64: compat: Add cp15_32 and cp15_64 handler arrays arm64: compat: Add CNTVCT trap handler arm64: compat: Add CNTFRQ trap handler ARM: Let arm_check_condition work with Thumb ARM: Check condition code before trying to handle an UNDEF ARM: Add arm_advance_itstate helper ARM: Advance the IT state on successful emulation of an UNDEF ARM: Simplify condition checks in swp_handler ARM: Handle trapping of CNTVCT from userspace ARM: Handle trapping of CNTFRQ from userspace clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Add helper to disable VDSO fastpath clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Trap user access to CNT{VCT,FRQ} if CNTFRQ is invalid
arch/arm/include/asm/opcodes.h | 2 + arch/arm/kernel/opcodes.c | 68 +++++++++++++++- arch/arm/kernel/swp_emulate.c | 15 +--- arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 64 ++++++++++++++- arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h | 58 +++++++++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 14 +++- arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 152 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 56 +++++++++---- 8 files changed, 397 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
-- 2.11.0
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