From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
maz@kernel.org, andre.przywara@arm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 04/16] arm/arm64: selftest: Add prefetch abort test
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:19:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190829101942.GC44575@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6b8a3c9-2e11-c806-da5b-8b66d8f63ce3@arm.com>
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 09:18:35AM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> On 8/28/19 3:09 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 02:38:19PM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> >> + /*
> >> + * AArch64 treats all regions writable at EL0 as PXN.
> > I didn't think that was the case, and I can't find wording to that
> > effect in the ARM ARM (looking at ARM DDI 0487E.a). Where is that
> > stated?
>
> It's in ARM DDI 0487E.a, table D5-33, footnote c: "Not executable, because
> AArch64 execution treats all regions writable at EL0 as being PXN". I'll update
> the comment to include the quote.
Interesting; I was not aware of that particular behaviour. Thanks
for the pointer!
Mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-29 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-28 13:38 [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 00/16] arm64: Run at EL2 Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 01/16] arm: selftest.c: Remove redundant check for Exception Level Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 14:32 ` Andrew Jones
2019-08-28 15:39 ` Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 02/16] arm/arm64: psci: Don't run C code without stack or vectors Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 14:45 ` Andrew Jones
2019-08-28 15:14 ` Alexandru Elisei
2019-09-02 14:55 ` Alexandru Elisei
2019-09-03 6:37 ` Andrew Jones
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 03/16] lib: arm/arm64: Add missing include for alloc_page.h in pgtable.h Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 14:47 ` Andrew Jones
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 04/16] arm/arm64: selftest: Add prefetch abort test Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 14:09 ` Mark Rutland
2019-08-29 8:18 ` Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-29 10:19 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 05/16] arm64: timer: Write to ICENABLER to disable timer IRQ Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 06/16] arm64: timer: EOIR the interrupt after masking the timer Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 07/16] arm64: timer: Test behavior when timer disabled or masked Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 08/16] lib: arm/arm64: Refuse to disable the MMU with non-identity stack pointer Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 14:55 ` Andrew Jones
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 09/16] lib: arm/arm64: Invalidate TLB before enabling MMU Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 14:59 ` Andrew Jones
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 10/16] lib: Add UL and ULL definitions to linux/const.h Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 15:10 ` Andrew Jones
2019-08-28 15:46 ` Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 16:19 ` Andrew Jones
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 11/16] lib: arm64: Run existing tests at EL2 Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 12/16] arm64: timer: Add test for EL2 timers Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 13/16] arm64: selftest: Add basic test for EL2 Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 14/16] lib: arm64: Add support for disabling and re-enabling VHE Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 14:19 ` Mark Rutland
2019-08-29 8:36 ` Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 15/16] arm64: selftest: Expand EL2 test to disable and re-enable VHE Alexandru Elisei
2019-08-28 13:38 ` [kvm-unit-tests RFC PATCH 16/16] arm64: timer: Run tests with VHE disabled Alexandru Elisei
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