On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 05:12:50PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Translation table walks are always cache coherent on ARMv8-A, so cache
> maintenance on page tables is never needed. Since there is a risk of
> loss of coherency when using mismatched attributes, and given that memory
> is mapped cacheable except for extraordinary cases (such as non-coherent
> DMA), restrict the page table walker to performing cacheable accesses to
> the translation tables.
> 
> For DEBUG builds, retain some of the logic so that we can double check
> that the memory holding the root translation table is indeed located in
> memory that is mapped cacheable.
> 
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <[email protected]>

Thanks, pushed as 35718840efe3a29c981b5b0f4d2f617f9a1f2c2e.

> ---
>  ArmPkg/Library/ArmMmuLib/AArch64/ArmMmuLibCore.c | 49 ++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ArmPkg/Library/ArmMmuLib/AArch64/ArmMmuLibCore.c 
> b/ArmPkg/Library/ArmMmuLib/AArch64/ArmMmuLibCore.c
> index 1fb3bbec6347..c78297084207 100644
> --- a/ArmPkg/Library/ArmMmuLib/AArch64/ArmMmuLibCore.c
> +++ b/ArmPkg/Library/ArmMmuLib/AArch64/ArmMmuLibCore.c
> @@ -627,6 +627,19 @@ ArmConfigureMmu (
>      return RETURN_UNSUPPORTED;
>    }
>  
> +  //
> +  // Translation table walks are always cache coherent on ARMv8-A, so cache
> +  // maintenance on page tables is never needed. Since there is a risk of
> +  // loss of coherency when using mismatched attributes, and given that 
> memory
> +  // is mapped cacheable except for extraordinary cases (such as non-coherent
> +  // DMA), have the page table walker perform cached accesses as well, and
> +  // assert below that that matches the attributes we use for CPU accesses to
> +  // the region.
> +  //
> +  TCR |= TCR_SH_INNER_SHAREABLE |
> +         TCR_RGN_OUTER_WRITE_BACK_ALLOC |
> +         TCR_RGN_INNER_WRITE_BACK_ALLOC;
> +
>    // Set TCR
>    ArmSetTCR (TCR);
>  
> @@ -672,11 +685,15 @@ ArmConfigureMmu (
>  
>    TranslationTableAttribute = TT_ATTR_INDX_INVALID;
>    while (MemoryTable->Length != 0) {
> -    // Find the memory attribute for the Translation Table
> -    if (((UINTN)TranslationTable >= MemoryTable->PhysicalBase) &&
> -        ((UINTN)TranslationTable <= MemoryTable->PhysicalBase - 1 + 
> MemoryTable->Length)) {
> -      TranslationTableAttribute = MemoryTable->Attributes;
> -    }
> +
> +    DEBUG_CODE_BEGIN ();
> +      // Find the memory attribute for the Translation Table
> +      if ((UINTN)TranslationTable >= MemoryTable->PhysicalBase &&
> +          (UINTN)TranslationTable + RootTableEntrySize <= 
> MemoryTable->PhysicalBase +
> +                                                          
> MemoryTable->Length) {
> +        TranslationTableAttribute = MemoryTable->Attributes;
> +      }
> +    DEBUG_CODE_END ();
>  
>      Status = FillTranslationTable (TranslationTable, MemoryTable);
>      if (RETURN_ERROR (Status)) {
> @@ -685,26 +702,8 @@ ArmConfigureMmu (
>      MemoryTable++;
>    }
>  
> -  // Translate the Memory Attributes into Translation Table Register 
> Attributes
> -  if ((TranslationTableAttribute == 
> ARM_MEMORY_REGION_ATTRIBUTE_UNCACHED_UNBUFFERED) ||
> -      (TranslationTableAttribute == 
> ARM_MEMORY_REGION_ATTRIBUTE_NONSECURE_UNCACHED_UNBUFFERED)) {
> -    TCR |= TCR_SH_NON_SHAREABLE | TCR_RGN_OUTER_NON_CACHEABLE | 
> TCR_RGN_INNER_NON_CACHEABLE;
> -  } else if ((TranslationTableAttribute == 
> ARM_MEMORY_REGION_ATTRIBUTE_WRITE_BACK) ||
> -      (TranslationTableAttribute == 
> ARM_MEMORY_REGION_ATTRIBUTE_NONSECURE_WRITE_BACK)) {
> -    TCR |= TCR_SH_INNER_SHAREABLE | TCR_RGN_OUTER_WRITE_BACK_ALLOC | 
> TCR_RGN_INNER_WRITE_BACK_ALLOC;
> -  } else if ((TranslationTableAttribute == 
> ARM_MEMORY_REGION_ATTRIBUTE_WRITE_THROUGH) ||
> -      (TranslationTableAttribute == 
> ARM_MEMORY_REGION_ATTRIBUTE_NONSECURE_WRITE_THROUGH)) {
> -    TCR |= TCR_SH_NON_SHAREABLE | TCR_RGN_OUTER_WRITE_THROUGH | 
> TCR_RGN_INNER_WRITE_THROUGH;
> -  } else {
> -    // If we failed to find a mapping that contains the root translation 
> table then it probably means the translation table
> -    // is not mapped in the given memory map.
> -    ASSERT (0);
> -    Status = RETURN_UNSUPPORTED;
> -    goto FREE_TRANSLATION_TABLE;
> -  }
> -
> -  // Set again TCR after getting the Translation Table attributes
> -  ArmSetTCR (TCR);
> +  ASSERT (TranslationTableAttribute == 
> ARM_MEMORY_REGION_ATTRIBUTE_WRITE_BACK ||
> +          TranslationTableAttribute == 
> ARM_MEMORY_REGION_ATTRIBUTE_NONSECURE_WRITE_BACK);
>  
>    ArmSetMAIR (MAIR_ATTR(TT_ATTR_INDX_DEVICE_MEMORY, MAIR_ATTR_DEVICE_MEMORY) 
> |                      // mapped to EFI_MEMORY_UC
>                MAIR_ATTR(TT_ATTR_INDX_MEMORY_NON_CACHEABLE, 
> MAIR_ATTR_NORMAL_MEMORY_NON_CACHEABLE) | // mapped to EFI_MEMORY_WC
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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