Hi Marc,

On 16/08/16 14:33, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 21/07/16 13:01, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> Since the non-secure copies of banked registers lack architecturally
>> defined reset values, there is no actual guarantee when entering in Hyp
>> from secure-only firmware that the non-secure PL1 state will look the
>> way that kernel entry (in particular the decompressor stub) expects.
>> So far, we've been getting away with it thanks to implementation details
>> of ARMv7 cores and/or bootloader behaviour, but for the sake of forwards
>> compatibility let's try to ensure that we have a minimally sane state
>> before dropping down into it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.mur...@arm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S | 12 ++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S b/arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S
>> index 0b1e4a93d67e..7de3fe15ab21 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S
>> @@ -142,6 +142,18 @@ ARM_BE8(orr     r7, r7, #(1 << 25))     @ HSCTLR.EE
>>      and     r7, #0x1f               @ Preserve HPMN
>>      mcr     p15, 4, r7, c1, c1, 1   @ HDCR
>>  
>> +    @ Make sure NS-SVC is initialised appropriately
>> +    mrc     p15, 0, r7, c1, c0, 0   @ SCTLR
>> +    orr     r7, #(1 << 5)           @ CP15 barriers enabled
>> +    bic     r7, #(3 << 19)          @ WXN and UWXN disabled
> 
> I think that while you're doing this, you also may want to clear SED and
> ITD so that a BE kernel has a chance to survive its first instruction
> (assuming it it uses the decompressor...).

Good point; I wrote this from the v7 perspective and neglected those,
and I think I was actually trying to achieve something useful at the
time which precluded cracking out the big-endian Thumb-2 kernel ;)

>From a quick correlation between ARM ARMs, those bits should be reliably
safe to unconditionally clear on v7VE, so let's do it. I'll respin shortly.

>> +    mcr     p15, 0, r7, c1, c0, 0   @ SCTLR
>> +
>> +    mrc     p15, 0, r7, c0, c0, 0   @ MIDR
>> +    mcr     p15, 4, r7, c0, c0, 0   @ VPIDR
>> +
>> +    mrc     p15, 0, r7, c0, c0, 5   @ MPIDR
>> +    mcr     p15, 4, r7, c0, c0, 5   @ VMPIDR
>> +
>>  #if !defined(ZIMAGE) && defined(CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER)
>>      @ make CNTP_* and CNTPCT accessible from PL1
>>      mrc     p15, 0, r7, c0, c1, 1   @ ID_PFR1
>>
> 
> Otherwise looks good.

Cheers,
Robin.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>       M.
> 

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