From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
BAREBOX <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: "Claude Sonnet 4.5" <noreply@anthropic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/21] mmu: introduce pbl_remap_range()
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 14:15:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72e8fd6b-1a78-4763-a909-ca0cb3a42e11@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260106-pbl-load-elf-v2-12-487bc760f045@pengutronix.de>
Hi,
On 1/6/26 1:53 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Add PBL-specific memory remapping function that always uses page-wise
> mapping (ARCH_MAP_FLAG_PAGEWISE) for fine-grained permissions on
> adjacent ELF segments with different protection requirements.
>
> Wraps arch-specific __arch_remap_range() for ARMv7 (4KB pages) and
> ARMv8 (page tables with BBM). Needed for ELF segment permission setup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
The verdict was that we shouldn't need PAGEWISE here and in that case,
we could just use normal remap_range function, right?
Thanks,
Ahmad
> ---
> arch/arm/cpu/mmu_32.c | 7 +++++++
> arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c | 8 ++++++++
> include/mmu.h | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_32.c b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_32.c
> index 71ead41c3d274548c9427c1ce9833de309114c4d..54371e3e5973c9fe98cadef63499105134e09539 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_32.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_32.c
> @@ -435,6 +435,13 @@ static void early_remap_range(u32 addr, size_t size, maptype_t map_type)
> __arch_remap_range((void *)addr, addr, size, map_type);
> }
>
> +void pbl_remap_range(void *virt_addr, phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size,
> + maptype_t map_type)
> +{
> + __arch_remap_range(virt_addr, phys_addr, size,
> + map_type | ARCH_MAP_FLAG_PAGEWISE);
> +}
> +
> static bool pte_is_cacheable(uint32_t pte, int level)
> {
> return (level == 2 && (pte & PTE_CACHEABLE)) ||
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c
> index ddf1373ec0a801baad043146187d7f4c3eac6a2a..d4d6d1a849ba9b8666f4dcb4bd80247a70bdce1a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c
> @@ -282,6 +282,14 @@ static void early_remap_range(uint64_t addr, size_t size, maptype_t map_type)
> __arch_remap_range(addr, addr, size, map_type, false);
> }
>
> +void pbl_remap_range(void *virt_addr, phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size,
> + maptype_t map_type)
> +{
> + __arch_remap_range((uint64_t)virt_addr, phys_addr,
> + (uint64_t)size, map_type | ARCH_MAP_FLAG_PAGEWISE,
> + true);
> +}
> +
> int arch_remap_range(void *virt_addr, phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size, maptype_t map_type)
> {
> map_type = arm_mmu_maybe_skip_permissions(map_type);
> diff --git a/include/mmu.h b/include/mmu.h
> index 9f582f25e1de14d47cfe2eff64f9cce81c4e492d..32d9a7aca3b9a61d542bf3e21e27f1ac51f43ee2 100644
> --- a/include/mmu.h
> +++ b/include/mmu.h
> @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ static inline bool arch_can_remap(void)
> }
> #endif
>
> +void pbl_remap_range(void *virt_addr, phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size,
> + maptype_t map_type);
> +
> static inline int remap_range(void *start, size_t size, maptype_t map_type)
> {
> return arch_remap_range(start, virt_to_phys(start), size, map_type);
>
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-06 12:53 [PATCH v2 00/21] PBL: Add PBL ELF loading support with dynamic relocations Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 01/21] elf: only accept images matching the native ELF_CLASS Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 12:58 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 02/21] elf: build for PBL as well Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:26 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 03/21] elf: add dynamic relocation support Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:51 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 04/21] ARM: implement elf_apply_relocations() for ELF " Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:07 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 14:25 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 05/21] riscv: define generic relocate_image Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:10 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 13:11 ` Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 06/21] riscv: implement elf_apply_relocations() for ELF relocation support Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:11 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 07/21] elf: implement elf_load_inplace() Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:53 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 08/21] elf: create elf_open_binary_into() Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:55 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 09/21] Makefile: add barebox.elf build target Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:13 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 10/21] PBL: allow to link ELF image into PBL Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:18 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 11/21] mmu: add MAP_CACHED_RO mapping type Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:14 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 12/21] mmu: introduce pbl_remap_range() Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:15 ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 13/21] ARM: use relative jumps in exception table Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:57 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 14/21] ARM: exceptions: make in-binary exception table const Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 14:00 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 15/21] ARM: linker script: create separate PT_LOAD segments for text, rodata, and data Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 14:05 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 16/21] ARM: link ELF image into PBL Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 14:06 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 17/21] ARM: PBL: setup MMU with proper permissions from ELF segments Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 14:10 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 18/21] riscv: link ELF image into PBL Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 14:11 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 19/21] riscv: linker script: create separate PT_LOAD segments for text, rodata, and data Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 14:12 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-08 15:25 ` Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 20/21] riscv: Allwinner D1: Drop M-Mode Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 13:11 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-01-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 21/21] riscv: add ELF segment-based memory protection with MMU Sascha Hauer
2026-01-06 14:20 ` Ahmad Fatoum
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