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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-09-29 12:18:59 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-10-16 14:14:51 -0700
commitca64baea4dd045516046a84a8860c3f9809b8984 (patch)
treef39657b72df9082586401e9e321fa6d42cfa305b /arch/sparc
parenta004e0962a10dfa7fc83dfa4ed4109d1cf84124b (diff)
sparc64: Force the execute bit in OpenFirmware's translation entries.
In the OF 'translations' property, the template TTEs in the mappings never specify the executable bit. This is the case even though some of these mappings are for OF's code segment. Therefore, we need to force the execute bit on in every mapping. This problem can only really trigger on Niagara/sun4v machines and the history behind this is a little complicated. Previous to sun4v, the sun4u TTE entries lacked a hardware execute permission bit. So OF didn't have to ever worry about setting anything to handle executable pages. Any valid TTE loaded into the I-TLB would be respected by the chip. But sun4v Niagara chips have a real hardware enforced executable bit in their TTEs. So it has to be set or else the I-TLB throws an instruction access exception with type code 6 (protection violation). We've been extremely fortunate to not get bitten by this in the past. The best I can tell is that the OF's mappings for it's executable code were mapped using permanent locked mappings on sun4v in the past. Therefore, the fact that we didn't have the exec bit set in the OF translations we would use did not matter in practice. Thanks to Greg Onufer for helping me track this down. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
index 581531dbc8b5..8e073d802139 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -511,6 +511,11 @@ static void __init read_obp_translations(void)
for (i = 0; i < prom_trans_ents; i++)
prom_trans[i].data &= ~0x0003fe0000000000UL;
}
+
+ /* Force execute bit on. */
+ for (i = 0; i < prom_trans_ents; i++)
+ prom_trans[i].data |= (tlb_type == hypervisor ?
+ _PAGE_EXEC_4V : _PAGE_EXEC_4U);
}
static void __init hypervisor_tlb_lock(unsigned long vaddr,