Re: [PATCH v3 06/60] arm64: ptdump: Allow VMALLOC_END to be defined at boot

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Tue Mar 07 2023 - 12:08:12 EST


On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 17:58, Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 07/03/2023 14:04, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Extend the existing pattern for populating ptdump marker entries at
> > boot, and add handling of VMALLOC_END, which will cease to be a compile
> > time constant for configurations that support 52-bit virtual addressing.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c | 8 +++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
> > index 76d28056bd14920a..910b35f02280cbdb 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump.c
> > @@ -31,7 +31,12 @@ enum address_markers_idx {
> > PAGE_END_NR,
> > #if defined(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS)
> > KASAN_START_NR,
> > + KASAN_END_NR,
> > #endif
> > + MODULES_NR,
> > + MODULES_END_NR,
> > + VMALLOC_START_NR,
> > + VMALLOC_END_NR,
> > };
> >
> > static struct addr_marker address_markers[] = {
> > @@ -44,7 +49,7 @@ static struct addr_marker address_markers[] = {
> > { MODULES_VADDR, "Modules start" },
> > { MODULES_END, "Modules end" },
> > { VMALLOC_START, "vmalloc() area" },
> > - { VMALLOC_END, "vmalloc() end" },
> > + { 0, "vmalloc() end" },
> > { VMEMMAP_START, "vmemmap start" },
> > { VMEMMAP_START + VMEMMAP_SIZE, "vmemmap end" },
> > { PCI_IO_START, "PCI I/O start" },
>
> With all the VA layout changes, and the addition of 52-bit PA/VA for 4KB and
> 16KB pages, Documentation/arm64/memory.rst now looks very wrong. Suggest
> updating it to reflect reality?
>

Yeah good point. And I don't think we necessarily have to describe
every imaginable combo exhaustively.