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[v5,4/6] powerpc/fsl_booke/64: do not clear the BSS for the second pass

Message ID 20200330022023.3691-5-yanaijie@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested
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Series implement KASLR for powerpc/fsl_booke/64 | expand

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Jason Yan March 30, 2020, 2:20 a.m. UTC
The BSS section has already cleared out in the first pass. No need to
clear it again. This can save some time when booting with KASLR
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
Cc: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
index 454129a3c259..9354c292b709 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -913,6 +913,13 @@  start_here_multiplatform:
 	bl      relative_toc
 	tovirt(r2,r2)
 
+	/* Do not clear the BSS for the second pass if randomized */
+	LOAD_REG_ADDR(r3, kernstart_virt_addr)
+	ld	r3,0(r3)
+	LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r4, KERNELBASE)
+	cmpd	r3,r4
+	bne	4f
+
 	/* Clear out the BSS. It may have been done in prom_init,
 	 * already but that's irrelevant since prom_init will soon
 	 * be detached from the kernel completely. Besides, we need