[PATCH v9 49/51] selftest/vm: sub-page allocator

From: Ram Pai
Date: Mon Nov 06 2017 - 04:00:51 EST


introduce a new allocator that allocates 4k hardware-pages to back
64k linux-page. This allocator is only applicable on powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
index c790bff..7b3649f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
@@ -765,6 +765,35 @@ void free_pkey_malloc(void *ptr)
return ptr;
}

+void *malloc_pkey_with_mprotect_subpage(long size, int prot, u16 pkey)
+{
+#ifdef __powerpc64__
+ void *ptr;
+ int ret;
+
+ dprintf1("doing %s(size=%ld, prot=0x%x, pkey=%d)\n", __func__,
+ size, prot, pkey);
+ pkey_assert(pkey < NR_PKEYS);
+ ptr = mmap(NULL, size, prot, MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
+ pkey_assert(ptr != (void *)-1);
+
+ ret = syscall(__NR_subpage_prot, ptr, size, NULL);
+ if (ret) {
+ perror("subpage_perm");
+ return PTR_ERR_ENOTSUP;
+ }
+
+ ret = mprotect_pkey((void *)ptr, PAGE_SIZE, prot, pkey);
+ pkey_assert(!ret);
+ record_pkey_malloc(ptr, size);
+
+ dprintf1("%s() for pkey %d @ %p\n", __func__, pkey, ptr);
+ return ptr;
+#else /* __powerpc64__ */
+ return PTR_ERR_ENOTSUP;
+#endif /* __powerpc64__ */
+}
+
void *malloc_pkey_anon_huge(long size, int prot, u16 pkey)
{
int ret;
@@ -887,6 +916,7 @@ void setup_hugetlbfs(void)
void *(*pkey_malloc[])(long size, int prot, u16 pkey) = {

malloc_pkey_with_mprotect,
+ malloc_pkey_with_mprotect_subpage,
malloc_pkey_anon_huge,
malloc_pkey_hugetlb
/* can not do direct with the pkey_mprotect() API:
--
1.7.1