[PATCH v2 0/6] mm, x86/vdso: Special IO mapping improvements

[Andy Lutomirski]

This applies on top of the earlier vdso pvclock series I sent out.
Once that lands in -tip, this will apply to -tip.

This series cleans up the hack that is our vvar mapping.  We currently
initialize the vvar mapping as a special mapping vma backed by nothing
whatsoever and then we abuse remap_pfn_range to populate it.

This cheats the mm core, probably breaks under various evil madvise
workloads, and prevents handling faults in more interesting ways.

To clean it up, this series:

 - Adds a special mapping .fault operation
 - Adds a vm_insert_pfn_prot helper
 - Uses the new .fault infrastructure in x86's vdso and vvar mappings
 - Hardens the HPET mapping, mitigating an HW attack surface that bothers me

akpm, can you ack patck 1?

Changes from v1:
 - Lots of changelog clarification requested by akpm
 - Minor tweaks to style and comments in the first two patches

Andy Lutomirski (6):
  mm: Add a vm_special_mapping .fault method
  mm: Add vm_insert_pfn_prot
  x86/vdso: Track each mm's loaded vdso image as well as its base
  x86,vdso: Use .fault for the vdso text mapping
  x86,vdso: Use .fault instead of remap_pfn_range for the vvar mapping
  x86/vdso: Disallow vvar access to vclock IO for never-used vclocks

 arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.h            |   7 --
 arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c               | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
 arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_gtod.c |   9 ++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/clocksource.h      |   9 +--
 arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h              |   3 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/vdso.h             |   3 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h            |   6 ++
 include/linux/mm.h                      |   2 +
 include/linux/mm_types.h                |  22 +++++-
 mm/memory.c                             |  25 ++++++-
 mm/mmap.c                               |  13 ++--
 11 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)

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2.5.0

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