Re: [PATCH 03/23] x86, kaiser: disable global pages

[Dave Hansen]

On 11/01/2017 02:18 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h~kaiser-prep-disable-global-pages	2017-10-31 15:03:49.314064402 -0700
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h	2017-10-31 15:03:49.323064827 -0700
>> @@ -47,7 +47,12 @@
>>  #define _PAGE_ACCESSED	(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_ACCESSED)
>>  #define _PAGE_DIRTY	(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_DIRTY)
>>  #define _PAGE_PSE	(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_PSE)
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_GLOBAL_PAGES
>>  #define _PAGE_GLOBAL	(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_GLOBAL)
>> +#else
>> +/* We must ensure that kernel TLBs are unusable while in userspace */
>> +#define _PAGE_GLOBAL	(_AT(pteval_t, 0))
>> +#endif
> 
> What you really want to do here is to clear PAGE_GLOBAL in the
> supported_pte_mask. probe_page_size_mask() is the proper place for that.

How does something like this look?  I just remove _PAGE_GLOBAL from the
default __PAGE_KERNEL permissions.

> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-kaiser.git/commit/?h=kaiser-dynamic-414rc6-20171101&id=c9f7109207f87c168a6674a4826a701bd0c7333f

I was a bit worried that if we pull _PAGE_GLOBAL out of
__supported_pte_mask itself, we might not be able to use it for the
shadow entries that map the entry/exit code like Linus suggested.