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Commit 5227cfa7 authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: mm: place empty_zero_page in bss



Currently the zero page is set up in paging_init, and thus we cannot use
the zero page earlier. We use the zero page as a reserved TTBR value
from which no TLB entries may be allocated (e.g. when uninstalling the
idmap). To enable such usage earlier (as may be required for invasive
changes to the kernel page tables), and to minimise the time that the
idmap is active, we need to be able to use the zero page before
paging_init.

This patch follows the example set by x86, by allocating the zero page
at compile time, in .bss. This means that the zero page itself is
available immediately upon entry to start_kernel (as we zero .bss before
this), and also means that the zero page takes up no space in the raw
Image binary. The associated struct page is allocated in bootmem_init,
and remains unavailable until this time.

Outside of arch code, the only users of empty_zero_page assume that the
empty_zero_page symbol refers to the zeroed memory itself, and that
ZERO_PAGE(x) must be used to acquire the associated struct page,
following the example of x86. This patch also brings arm64 inline with
these assumptions.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: default avatarJeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 21ab99c2
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