Commit 4c3aeb82 authored by Palmer Dabbelt's avatar Palmer Dabbelt

RISC-V: Avoid using invalid intermediate translations

This is almost entirely a comment.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAnup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
parent 9a6e7af0
......@@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ relocate:
/*
* Load trampoline page directory, which will cause us to trap to
* stvec if VA != PA, or simply fall through if VA == PA
* stvec if VA != PA, or simply fall through if VA == PA. We need a
* full fence here because setup_vm() just wrote these PTEs and we need
* to ensure the new translations are in use.
*/
la a0, trampoline_pg_dir
srl a0, a0, PAGE_SHIFT
......@@ -115,8 +117,14 @@ relocate:
la gp, __global_pointer$
.option pop
/* Switch to kernel page tables */
/*
* Switch to kernel page tables. A full fence is necessary in order to
* avoid using the trampoline translations, which are only correct for
* the first superpage. Fetching the fence is guarnteed to work
* because that first superpage is translated the same way.
*/
csrw CSR_SATP, a2
sfence.vma
ret
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