Re: [PATCH 06/16] x86/mm/ldt: Reserve high address-space range for the LDT

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:52 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 05:36:49PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> Reserve 2MB/4MB of address space for mapping the LDT to
>> user-space.
>
> LDT is 64k, we need 2 per CPU, and NR_CPUS <= 64 on 32bit, that gives
> 64K*2*64=8M > 2M.

If this works like it does on 64-bit, it only needs 128k regardless of
the number of CPUs.  The LDT mapping is specific to the mm.

How are you dealing with PAE here?  That is, what's your pagetable
layout?  What parts of the address space are owned by what code?