Re: [PATCH 1/7] arm: use generic fixmap.h

From: Laura Abbott
Date: Wed Aug 06 2014 - 22:24:27 EST


On 8/6/2014 12:32 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> From: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ARM is different from other architectures in that fixmap pages are indexed
> with a positive offset from FIXADDR_START. Other architectures index with
> a negative offset from FIXADDR_TOP. In order to use the generic fixmap.h
> definitions, this patch redefines FIXADDR_TOP to be inclusive of the
> useable range. That is, FIXADDR_TOP is the virtual address of the topmost
> fixed page. The newly defined FIXADDR_END is the first virtual address
> past the fixed mappings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [update for "ARM: 8031/2: change fixmap mapping region to support 32 CPUs"]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h | 27 +++++++++------------------
> arch/arm/mm/init.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
> index 74124b0d0d79..190142d174ee 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
> @@ -2,27 +2,18 @@
> #define _ASM_FIXMAP_H
>
> #define FIXADDR_START 0xffc00000UL
> -#define FIXADDR_TOP 0xffe00000UL
> -#define FIXADDR_SIZE (FIXADDR_TOP - FIXADDR_START)
> +#define FIXADDR_END 0xffe00000UL
> +#define FIXADDR_TOP (FIXADDR_END - PAGE_SIZE)
> +#define FIXADDR_SIZE (FIXADDR_END - FIXADDR_START)
>
> #define FIX_KMAP_NR_PTES (FIXADDR_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT)
>
> -#define __fix_to_virt(x) (FIXADDR_START + ((x) << PAGE_SHIFT))
> -#define __virt_to_fix(x) (((x) - FIXADDR_START) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
> +enum fixed_addresses {
> + FIX_KMAP_BEGIN,
> + FIX_KMAP_END = FIX_KMAP_NR_PTES - 1,
> + __end_of_fixed_addresses
> +};
>
> -extern void __this_fixmap_does_not_exist(void);
> -
> -static inline unsigned long fix_to_virt(const unsigned int idx)
> -{
> - if (idx >= FIX_KMAP_NR_PTES)
> - __this_fixmap_does_not_exist();
> - return __fix_to_virt(idx);
> -}
> -
> -static inline unsigned int virt_to_fix(const unsigned long vaddr)
> -{
> - BUG_ON(vaddr >= FIXADDR_TOP || vaddr < FIXADDR_START);
> - return __virt_to_fix(vaddr);
> -}
> +#include <asm-generic/fixmap.h>
>
> #endif
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> index 659c75d808dc..ad82c05bfc3a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> @@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
> MLK(DTCM_OFFSET, (unsigned long) dtcm_end),
> MLK(ITCM_OFFSET, (unsigned long) itcm_end),
> #endif
> - MLK(FIXADDR_START, FIXADDR_TOP),
> + MLK(FIXADDR_START, FIXADDR_END),
> MLM(VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END),
> MLM(PAGE_OFFSET, (unsigned long)high_memory),
> #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
>

I'm working off of a 3.14 kernel and with this backported
kmap_atomic does not actually map properly for me. This was

my quick fix (not sure if we should be using __set_fixmap?). Or did
I fail at backportery?

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