[PATCH 4/4] riscv: Improve kasan population by using hugepages when possible

From: Alexandre Ghiti
Date: Mon Feb 08 2021 - 15:48:18 EST


The kasan functions that populates the shadow regions used to allocate them
page by page and did not take advantage of hugepages, so fix this by
trying to allocate hugepages of 1GB and fallback to 2MB hugepages or 4K
pages in case it fails.

This reduces the page table memory consumption and improves TLB usage,
as shown below:

Before this patch:

---[ Kasan shadow start ]---
0xffffffc000000000-0xffffffc400000000 0x00000000818ef000 16G PTE . A . . . . R V
0xffffffc400000000-0xffffffc447fc0000 0x00000002b7f4f000 1179392K PTE D A . . . W R V
0xffffffc480000000-0xffffffc800000000 0x00000000818ef000 14G PTE . A . . . . R V
---[ Kasan shadow end ]---

After this patch:

---[ Kasan shadow start ]---
0xffffffc000000000-0xffffffc400000000 0x00000000818ef000 16G PTE . A . . . . R V
0xffffffc400000000-0xffffffc440000000 0x0000000240000000 1G PGD D A . . . W R V
0xffffffc440000000-0xffffffc447e00000 0x00000002b7e00000 126M PMD D A . . . W R V
0xffffffc447e00000-0xffffffc447fc0000 0x00000002b818f000 1792K PTE D A . . . W R V
0xffffffc480000000-0xffffffc800000000 0x00000000818ef000 14G PTE . A . . . . R V
---[ Kasan shadow end ]---

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c
index b7d4d9abd144..2b196f512f07 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c
@@ -83,6 +83,15 @@ static void kasan_populate_pmd(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long vaddr, unsigned long en

do {
next = pmd_addr_end(vaddr, end);
+
+ if (pmd_none(*pmdp) && IS_ALIGNED(vaddr, PMD_SIZE) && (next - vaddr) >= PMD_SIZE) {
+ phys_addr = memblock_phys_alloc(PMD_SIZE, PMD_SIZE);
+ if (phys_addr) {
+ set_pmd(pmdp, pfn_pmd(PFN_DOWN(phys_addr), PAGE_KERNEL));
+ continue;
+ }
+ }
+
kasan_populate_pte(pmdp, vaddr, next);
} while (pmdp++, vaddr = next, vaddr != end);

@@ -103,6 +112,21 @@ static void kasan_populate_pgd(unsigned long vaddr, unsigned long end)

do {
next = pgd_addr_end(vaddr, end);
+
+ /*
+ * pgdp can't be none since kasan_early_init initialized all KASAN
+ * shadow region with kasan_early_shadow_pmd: if this is stillthe case,
+ * that means we can try to allocate a hugepage as a replacement.
+ */
+ if (pgd_page_vaddr(*pgdp) == (unsigned long)lm_alias(kasan_early_shadow_pmd) &&
+ IS_ALIGNED(vaddr, PGDIR_SIZE) && (next - vaddr) >= PGDIR_SIZE) {
+ phys_addr = memblock_phys_alloc(PGDIR_SIZE, PGDIR_SIZE);
+ if (phys_addr) {
+ set_pgd(pgdp, pfn_pgd(PFN_DOWN(phys_addr), PAGE_KERNEL));
+ continue;
+ }
+ }
+
kasan_populate_pmd(pgdp, vaddr, next);
} while (pgdp++, vaddr = next, vaddr != end);
}
--
2.20.1