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2021-04-26	riscv: Introduce alternative mechanism to apply errata solution	Vincent Chen
	Introduce the "alternative" mechanism from ARM64 and x86 to apply the CPU vendors' errata solution at runtime. The main purpose of this patch is to provide a framework. Therefore, the implementation is quite basic for now so that some scenarios could not use this schemei, such as patching code to a module, relocating the patching code and heterogeneous CPU topology. Users could use the macro ALTERNATIVE to apply an errata to the existing code flow. In the macro ALTERNATIVE, users need to specify the manufacturer information(vendorid, archid, and impid) for this errata. Therefore, kernel will know this errata is suitable for which CPU core. During the booting procedure, kernel will select the errata required by the CPU core and then patch it. It means that the kernel only applies the errata to the specified CPU core. In this case, the vendor's errata does not affect each other at runtime. The above patching procedure only occurs during the booting phase, so we only take the overhead of the "alternative" mechanism once. This "alternative" mechanism is enabled by default to ensure that all required errata will be applied. However, users can disable this feature by the Kconfig "CONFIG_RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE". Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
2020-11-25	RISC-V: Protect all kernel sections including init early	Atish Patra
	Currently, .init.text & .init.data are intermixed which makes it impossible apply different permissions to them. .init.data shouldn't need exec permissions while .init.text shouldn't have write permission. Moreover, the strict permission are only enforced /init starts. This leaves the kernel vulnerable from possible buggy built-in modules. Keep .init.text & .data in separate sections so that different permissions are applied to each section. Apply permissions to individual sections as early as possible. This improves the kernel protection under CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX. We also need to restore the permissions for the entire _init section after it is freed so that those pages can be used for other purpose. Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com> Tested-by: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
2020-10-02	RISC-V: Add PE/COFF header for EFI stub	Atish Patra
	Linux kernel Image can appear as an EFI application With appropriate PE/COFF header fields in the beginning of the Image header. An EFI application loader can directly load a Linux kernel Image and an EFI stub residing in kernel can boot Linux kernel directly. Add the necessary PE/COFF header. Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200421033336.9663-3-atish.patra@wdc.com [ardb: - use C prefix for c.li to ensure the expected opcode is emitted - align all image sections according to PE/COFF section alignment ] Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>