arm64/head: Disable MMU at EL2 before clearing HCR_EL2.E2H
Even though the boot protocol stipulates otherwise, an exception has been made for the EFI stub, and entering the core kernel with the MMU enabled is permitted. This allows a substantial amount of cache maintenance to be elided, wich is significant when fast boot times are critical (e.g., for booting micro-VMs) Once the initial ID map has been populated, the MMU is disabled as part of the logic sequence that puts all system registers into a known state. Any code that needs to execute within the window where the MMU is off is cleaned to the PoC explicitly, which includes all of HYP text when entering at EL2. However, the current sequence of initializing the EL2 system registers is not safe: HCR_EL2 is set to its nVHE initial state before SCTLR_EL2 is reprogrammed, and this means that a VHE-to-nVHE switch may occur while the MMU is enabled. This switch causes some system registers as well as page table descriptors to be interpreted in a different way, potentially resulting in spurious exceptions relating to MMU translation. So disable the MMU explicitly first when entering in EL2 with the MMU and caches enabled. Fixes: 61786170 ("efi: arm64: enter with MMU and caches enabled") Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.3.x Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240415075412.2347624-6-ardb+git@google.comSigned-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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