The old ARMv5-style page table format includes a kind of second level
descriptor named the "extended small page" format, whose primary purpose
is to allow specification of the TEX memory attribute bits on a 4K page.
This exists on ARMv6 and also (as an implementation extension) on XScale
CPUs; it's UNPREDICTABLE on v5.
We were mishandling this in two ways:
(1) we weren't implementing it for v6 (probably never noticed because
Linux will use the new-style v6 page table format there)
(2) we were not correctly setting the page_size, which is 4K, not 1K
The latter bug went unnoticed for years because the only thing which
the page_size affects is which TLB entries get flushed when the guest
does a TLB invalidate on an address in the page, and prior to commit
2f0d8631b7 we were doing a full TLB flush very frequently due to Linux's
habit of writing the SCTLR pointlessly a lot.
(We can assume that after commit 2f0d8631b7 the bug went unnoticed
for a year because nobody's actually using the Zaurus/XScale emulation...)
Report the correct page size for these descriptors, and permit them
on ARMv6 CPUs. This fixes a problem where a kernel image for Zaurus
can boot the kernel OK but gets random segfaults when it tries to
run userspace programs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 1432844085-16441-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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