OpenTitan: Enable PMP for kernel regions #2422
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Why not put all of this in chips/earlgrey? Our chips already (historically) use the linker symbols, but they could also just be passed in to a function. But configuring the PMP seems like a reasonable chip-level operation, and a different board implementation might want to use the exact same code.
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That's a good question. It doesn't really matter too much.
I feel that it fits in boards/ as that is where other similar operations are. For example the stack size is allocated in boards, so I feel that stack protection should also be in boards.
We also only want to enable this after debug is setup (in case something goes wrong), so it makes sense in boards.
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The board can still call it, and decide when (or if) to call it, just the code would exist in a more central location.
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It can, but the board will still end up calling it so I don't think we would really save anything.
The HIL for allocate_kernel_region() also says: "It is expected that this function is called in reset_handler()."
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I have bad memories of duplicated code in main.rs, that's all. Components helped a lot, but I'm wary of setting things up so that code will get copied, and then changes require updating all RISC-V boards (which I do not recommend :)).
This is also similar to load_processes, which is only stored in process.rs for convenience, but is most definitely a board-level function/task. It's just copying it to every main.rs wasn't scalable.
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It would still required changes in all RISC-V if it's in chips.
I still think here is a good place. Maybe arch would work though, then it can just be called from all the boards.
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Ideally, this would not even be architecture specific, and tock could by default limit access on all platforms in the same way that this does for OT. But I think it is fine to leave it here for now and worry about code duplication once it actually exists.
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Ideally, this would not even be architecture specific, and tock could by default limit access on all platforms in the same way that this does for OT. But I think it is fine to leave it here for now and worry about code duplication once it actually exists.
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2422: OpenTitan: Enable PMP for kernel regions r=bradjc a=alistair23 ### Pull Request Overview This PR applies on top of tock#2420 This PR adds support for marking regions of the kernel as protected by PMP. This allows some regions to have reduced permissions applied to them. This can be used to restrict write/execute to different regions used by the kernel. ### Testing Strategy Boot Tock and an app on OpenTitan FPGA and QEMU. ### TODO or Help Wanted ### Documentation Updated - [X] Updated the relevant files in `/docs`, or no updates are required. ### Formatting - [X] Ran `make prepush`. Co-authored-by: Alistair Francis <[email protected]>
Pull Request Overview
This PR applies on top of #2420
This PR adds support for marking regions of the kernel as protected by PMP.
This allows some regions to have reduced permissions applied to them. This can be used to restrict write/execute to different regions used by the kernel.
Testing Strategy
Boot Tock and an app on OpenTitan FPGA and QEMU.
TODO or Help Wanted
Documentation Updated
/docs, or no updates are required.Formatting
make prepush.