[RFC 0/4] powerpc/book3s64/radix: Add support for memfd_secret

[Ritesh Harjani (IBM)]

memfd_secret() gives a process a place to keep a secret that the kernel itself
should not be able to read. The page is still mapped in that process but it is
removed from the kernel linear map, so a kernel read or a speculative walk of
that map cannot see it.

On PowerPC book3s64, if the same address is translated by two pages of different
sizes at once, the TLB access can raise a machine check for a parity error or
a multi-hit. So that means breaking a 2M or a 1G mapping of kernel linear map is
not possible.

The way around that is to build the linear map out of base pages in the first
place and only then allow a single page to be dropped and put back. So, that is
what this series does by adding a linear_map_use_base_page cmdline option.

This is based out of mm-new branch for now (since few dependent function
definitions have been modified there). Once v7.4 is merge window closes - I will
rebase this to latest upstream powerpc tree.

Ritesh Harjani (IBM) (4):
  powerpc/64s: Add linear_map_use_base_page command line option
  powerpc/64s/radix: Implement ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
  powerpc: Wire memfd_secret syscall
  selftests: mm: Enable memfd_secret for powerpc

 .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         | 10 ++
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                          |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/mmu.h      |  2 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/set_memory.h         |  9 ++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl      |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c            | 22 +++++
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c      |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/pageattr.c                    | 96 +++++++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile           |  2 +-
 9 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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