From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753216AbdF0SV2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:21:28 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-f193.google.com ([209.85.220.193]:33656 "EHLO mail-qk0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752311AbdF0SVW (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:21:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] misc: sram: Allow ARM64 to select SRAM_EXEC To: Mark Rutland , lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Rob Herring , Brian Norris , Gregory Fong , "maintainer:BROADCOM BCM7XXX ARM ARCHITECTURE" , Hauke Mehrtens , =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , Ralf Baechle , Markus Mayer , Arnd Bergmann , Eric Anholt , Justin Chen , Doug Berger , "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" , open list , "open list:BROADCOM BCM47XX MIPS ARCHITECTURE" , linux-pm@vger.kernerl.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , will.deacon@arm.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com References: <20170626223248.14199-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com> <20170626223248.14199-3-f.fainelli@gmail.com> <20170627173859.GA5189@leverpostej> From: Florian Fainelli Message-ID: <171ae8ff-2af2-65e3-9796-308b21976876@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:21:17 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170627173859.GA5189@leverpostej> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/27/2017 10:38 AM, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 03:32:42PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> Now that ARM64 also has a fncpy() implementation, allow selection >> SRAM_EXEC for ARM64 as well. >> >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli > > Sorr,y but I must NAK this patch. > > As mentioned on prior threads regarding fncpy, I do not think it makes > sense to enable this for arm64. The only use-cases that have been > described so far for this are power-management stuff that should live in > PSCI or other secure FW, and have no place in the kernel on arm64 This is a valid reason, but this is only one use case presented, the only thing is that we need to make sure, as patch reviewers and you guys as architecture maintainers, that this is not used as a means to bypass PSCI for suspend/resume operation, which I now agree with. Still, the general use case remains: you have a piece of addressable memory which can be used to allocate space from and relocate code to be it for security, performance, predictability, isolation, or anything, and that should be possible given standard kernel facilities offered by the SRAM driver. > > There are no other users of this functionality, and until there are, I > see no reason to enable this, and risk a proliferation of unnecessary > platform-specific code. > > It should be possible to #ifdef-ise the relevant callers of this such > that they can be built on arm64 without using fncpy or sram_exec > functionality. AFAICT, there are no users on arm64 introduced by this > series. I sent this patch accidentally as part of this patch series anyway, so if you want to keep the discussion alive, reply here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9793745/ > > Thanks, > Mark. > >> --- >> drivers/misc/Kconfig | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig >> index 07bbd4cc1852..ac8779278c0c 100644 >> --- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig >> +++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig >> @@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ config SRAM >> bool "Generic on-chip SRAM driver" >> depends on HAS_IOMEM >> select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR >> - select SRAM_EXEC if ARM >> + select SRAM_EXEC if ARM || ARM64 >> help >> This driver allows you to declare a memory region to be managed by >> the genalloc API. It is supposed to be used for small on-chip SRAM >> -- >> 2.9.3 >> -- Florian