ARM: virt: allow the kernel to be entered in HYP mode

This patch does two things:

  * Ensure that asynchronous aborts are masked at kernel entry.
    The bootloader should be masking these anyway, but this reduces
    the damage window just in case it doesn't.

  * Enter svc mode via exception return to ensure that CPU state is
    properly serialised.  This does not matter when switching from
    an ordinary privileged mode ("PL1" modes in ARMv7-AR rev C
    parlance), but it potentially does matter when switching from a
    another privileged mode such as hyp mode.

This should allow the kernel to boot safely either from svc mode or
hyp mode, even if no support for use of the ARM Virtualization
Extensions is built into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
index 03fb93621d0d..658a15dbc87e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 #include <asm/domain.h>
+#include <asm/opcodes-virt.h>
 
 #define IOMEM(x)	(x)
 
@@ -240,6 +241,33 @@
 #endif
 
 /*
+ * Helper macro to enter SVC mode cleanly and mask interrupts. reg is
+ * a scratch register for the macro to overwrite.
+ *
+ * This macro is intended for forcing the CPU into SVC mode at boot time.
+ * you cannot return to the original mode.
+ *
+ * Beware, it also clobers LR.
+ */
+.macro safe_svcmode_maskall reg:req
+	mrs	\reg , cpsr
+	mov	lr , \reg
+	and	lr , lr , #MODE_MASK
+	cmp	lr , #HYP_MODE
+	orr	\reg , \reg , #PSR_A_BIT | PSR_I_BIT | PSR_F_BIT
+	bic	\reg , \reg , #MODE_MASK
+	orr	\reg , \reg , #SVC_MODE
+THUMB(	orr	\reg , \reg , #PSR_T_BIT	)
+	msr	spsr_cxsf, \reg
+	adr	lr, BSYM(2f)
+	bne	1f
+	__MSR_ELR_HYP(14)
+	__ERET
+1:	movs	pc, lr
+2:
+.endm
+
+/*
  * STRT/LDRT access macros with ARM and Thumb-2 variants
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL