Re: [PATCH 3/8] arm: mm: reduce fixmap kmap from 32 to 16 CPUS

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Aug 08 2014 - 20:11:33 EST


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> More room is needed in the fixmap range for non-kmap fixmap entries. This
>> reduces the kmap range from 32 to 16 CPUs.
>
> Do you want this merged or just doing this to get the rest of your
> series working? I'll post my patch for making the fixmap region 3MB
> (it adds back the first 1MB of the top pmd).

Excellent, thanks for sending this, I'll get it tested as part of the series.

>> Additionally, add PTE entry for
>> fixmap regardless of CONFIG_HIGHMEM.
>
> "Additionally" is a good flag for this patch should be split-up. It
> seems like we would want to apply this part to stable.

Does anyone have use-cases that broke in 3.16 due to this bug? If so,
it absolutely should be split out and CCed to -stable. I'll split it
out regardless, and if someone can speak up with a broken situation,
I'll add the CC.

Thanks!

-Kees

>
> Rob
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h | 12 ++++++++++--
>> arch/arm/mm/highmem.c | 2 --
>> arch/arm/mm/mm.h | 3 +++
>> arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 5 ++++-
>> 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
>> index 8ee7cb4f62ca..3ed08232be55 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
>> @@ -1,16 +1,24 @@
>> #ifndef _ASM_FIXMAP_H
>> #define _ASM_FIXMAP_H
>>
>> +/*
>> + * The fixmap uses 2MB. The KMAP fixmap needs 64k per CPU, so make room for
>> + * 16 CPUs (taking 1MB) and leave the rest for additional fixmap areas.
>> + */
>> #define FIXADDR_START 0xffc00000UL
>> #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)
>> +/* 16 PTEs per CPU (64k of 4k pages). */
>> +#define FIX_KMAP_NR_PTES 16
>> +#define FIX_KMAP_NR_CPUS 16
>>
>> enum fixed_addresses {
>> + /* Support 16 CPUs for kmap as the first region of fixmap entries. */
>> FIX_KMAP_BEGIN,
>> - FIX_KMAP_END = FIX_KMAP_NR_PTES - 1,
>> + FIX_KMAP_END = (FIX_KMAP_NR_PTES * FIX_KMAP_NR_CPUS) - 1,
>> +
>> __end_of_fixed_addresses
>> };
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/highmem.c b/arch/arm/mm/highmem.c
>> index a1241ee8425e..adf264fb700b 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/highmem.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/highmem.c
>> @@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
>> #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
>> #include "mm.h"
>>
>> -pte_t *fixmap_page_table;
>> -
>> static inline void set_fixmap_pte(int idx, pte_t pte)
>> {
>> unsigned long vaddr = __fix_to_virt(idx);
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mm.h b/arch/arm/mm/mm.h
>> index ce727d47275c..c8b5b2d05b55 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/mm.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mm.h
>> @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
>> /* the upper-most page table pointer */
>> extern pmd_t *top_pmd;
>>
>> +/* The fixmap PTE. */
>> +extern pte_t *fixmap_page_table;
>> +
>> /*
>> * 0xffff8000 to 0xffffffff is reserved for any ARM architecture
>> * specific hacks for copying pages efficiently, while 0xffff4000
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
>> index e881ed817a8b..a7a756603775 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
>> @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page);
>> */
>> pmd_t *top_pmd;
>>
>> +/* The fixmap PTE. */
>> +pte_t *fixmap_page_table;
>> +
>> #define CPOLICY_UNCACHED 0
>> #define CPOLICY_BUFFERED 1
>> #define CPOLICY_WRITETHROUGH 2
>> @@ -1342,10 +1345,10 @@ static void __init kmap_init(void)
>> #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
>> pkmap_page_table = early_pte_alloc(pmd_off_k(PKMAP_BASE),
>> PKMAP_BASE, _PAGE_KERNEL_TABLE);
>> +#endif
>>
>> fixmap_page_table = early_pte_alloc(pmd_off_k(FIXADDR_START),
>> FIXADDR_START, _PAGE_KERNEL_TABLE);
>> -#endif
>> }
>>
>> static void __init map_lowmem(void)
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>



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