The head text section (i.e. _start, secondary_start_sbi, etc) and the init section fall under same page table level-1 mapping.
Currently, the runtime CPU hotplug is broken because we are marking init section as non-executable which in-turn marks head text section as non-executable.
Further investigating other architectures, it seems marking the init section as non-executable is redundant because the init section pages are anyway poisoned and freed.
To fix broken runtime CPU hotplug, we simply remove the code marking the init section as non-executable.
Fixes: d27c3c90817e ("riscv: add STRICT_KERNEL_RWX support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Anup Patel anup.patel@wdc.com --- arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c index 736de6c8739f..e0f8ccab8a41 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c @@ -482,11 +482,6 @@ static void __init setup_vm_final(void)
void free_initmem(void) { - unsigned long init_begin = (unsigned long)__init_begin; - unsigned long init_end = (unsigned long)__init_end; - - /* Make the region as non-execuatble. */ - set_memory_nx(init_begin, (init_end - init_begin) >> PAGE_SHIFT); free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM); }