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Introduce and use {pgd,p4d}_populate_kernel() in core MM code when
populating PGD and P4D entries for the kernel address space. These
helpers ensure proper synchronization of page tables when updating the
kernel portion of top-level page tables.
Until now, the kernel has relied on each architecture to handle
synchronization of top-level page tables in an ad-hoc manner. For
example, see commit 9b86152 ("x86-64, mem: Update all PGDs for direct
mapping and vmemmap mapping changes").
However, this approach has proven fragile for following reasons:
1) It is easy to forget to perform the necessary page table
synchronization when introducing new changes.
For instance, commit 4917f55 ("mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory
savings for compound devmaps") overlooked the need to synchronize
page tables for the vmemmap area.
2) It is also easy to overlook that the vmemmap and direct mapping areas
must not be accessed before explicit page table synchronization.
For example, commit 8d40091 ("x86/vmemmap: handle unpopulated
sub-pmd ranges")) caused crashes by accessing the vmemmap area
before calling sync_global_pgds().
To address this, as suggested by Dave Hansen, introduce _kernel() variants
of the page table population helpers, which invoke architecture-specific
hooks to properly synchronize page tables. These are introduced in a new
header file, include/linux/pgalloc.h, so they can be called from common
code.
They reuse existing infrastructure for vmalloc and ioremap.
Synchronization requirements are determined by ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK,
and the actual synchronization is performed by
arch_sync_kernel_mappings().
This change currently targets only x86_64, so only PGD and P4D level
helpers are introduced. Currently, these helpers are no-ops since no
architecture sets PGTBL_{PGD,P4D}_MODIFIED in ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK.
In theory, PUD and PMD level helpers can be added later if needed by other
architectures. For now, 32-bit architectures (x86-32 and arm) only handle
PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED, so p*d_populate_kernel() will never affect them unless
we introduce a PMD level helper.
[[email protected]: fix KASAN build error due to p*d_populate_kernel()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 8d40091 ("x86/vmemmap: handle unpopulated sub-pmd ranges")
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Alistair Popple <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: bibo mao <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <[email protected]>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <[email protected]>
Cc: Dev Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Gwan-gyeong Mun <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jane Chu <[email protected]>
Cc: Joao Martins <[email protected]>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
Cc: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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