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arm64: Inform user if software PAN is in use

Message ID 20171129233949.1284-1-sboyd@codeaurora.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Stephen Boyd Nov. 29, 2017, 11:39 p.m. UTC
It isn't entirely obvious if we're using software PAN because we
don't say anything about it in the boot log. But if we're using
hardware PAN we'll print a nice CPU feature message indicating
it. Add a print for software PAN too so we know if it's being
used or not.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Catalin Marinas Jan. 16, 2018, 10:57 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 03:39:49PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> It isn't entirely obvious if we're using software PAN because we
> don't say anything about it in the boot log. But if we're using
> hardware PAN we'll print a nice CPU feature message indicating
> it. Add a print for software PAN too so we know if it's being
> used or not.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>

Applied for 4.16. Thanks.
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 21e2c95d24e7..c6f8da17146b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1189,6 +1189,9 @@  void __init setup_cpu_features(void)
 	if (system_supports_32bit_el0())
 		setup_elf_hwcaps(compat_elf_hwcaps);
 
+	if (system_uses_ttbr0_pan())
+		pr_info("Emulating Privileged Access Never (PAN) using TTBR0_EL1 switching\n");
+
 	/* Advertise that we have computed the system capabilities */
 	set_sys_caps_initialised();