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Kernel Page Table Isolation (KPTI) is used to mitigate some speculation based security issues by ensuring that the kernel is not mapped when userspace is running but this approach is expensive and is incompatible with SPE. E0PD, introduced in the ARMv8.5 extensions, provides an alternative to this which ensures that accesses from userspace to the kernel's half of the memory map to always fault with constant time, preventing timing attacks without requiring constant unmapping and remapping or preventing legitimate accesses. Currently this feature will only be enabled if all CPUs in the system support E0PD, if some CPUs do not support the feature at boot time then the feature will not be enabled and in the unlikely event that a late CPU is the first CPU to lack the feature then we will reject that CPU. This initial patch does not yet integrate with KPTI, this will be dealt with in followup patches. Ideally we could ensure that by default we don't use KPTI on CPUs where E0PD is present. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> [will: Fixed typo in Kconfig text] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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