[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 27/98] arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Mar 15 23:30:21 UTC 2016


4.2.8-ckt6 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

commit dfd55ad85e4a7fbaa82df12467515ac3c81e8a3e upstream.

Commit dd006da21646 ("arm64: mm: increase VA range of identity map") made
some changes to the memory mapping code to allow physical memory to reside
at an offset that exceeds the size of the virtual mapping.

However, since the size of the vmemmap area is proportional to the size of
the VA area, but it is populated relative to the physical space, we may
end up with the struct page array being mapped outside of the vmemmap
region. For instance, on my Seattle A0 box, I can see the following output
in the dmesg log.

   vmemmap : 0xffffffbdc0000000 - 0xffffffbfc0000000   (     8 GB maximum)
             0xffffffbfc0000000 - 0xffffffbfd0000000   (   256 MB actual)

We can fix this by deciding that the vmemmap region is not a projection of
the physical space, but of the virtual space above PAGE_OFFSET, i.e., the
linear region. This way, we are guaranteed that the vmemmap region is of
sufficient size, and we can even reduce the size by half.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 7 ++++---
 arch/arm64/mm/init.c             | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index cf73194..514fb0c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -33,17 +33,18 @@
 /*
  * VMALLOC and SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP ranges.
  *
- * VMEMAP_SIZE: allows the whole VA space to be covered by a struct page array
+ * VMEMAP_SIZE: allows the whole linear region to be covered by a struct page array
  *	(rounded up to PUD_SIZE).
  * VMALLOC_START: beginning of the kernel VA space
  * VMALLOC_END: extends to the available space below vmmemmap, PCI I/O space,
  *	fixed mappings and modules
  */
-#define VMEMMAP_SIZE		ALIGN((1UL << (VA_BITS - PAGE_SHIFT)) * sizeof(struct page), PUD_SIZE)
+#define VMEMMAP_SIZE		ALIGN((1UL << (VA_BITS - PAGE_SHIFT - 1)) * sizeof(struct page), PUD_SIZE)
 #define VMALLOC_START		(UL(0xffffffffffffffff) << VA_BITS)
 #define VMALLOC_END		(PAGE_OFFSET - PUD_SIZE - VMEMMAP_SIZE - SZ_64K)
 
-#define vmemmap			((struct page *)(VMALLOC_END + SZ_64K))
+#define VMEMMAP_START		(VMALLOC_END + SZ_64K)
+#define vmemmap			((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - (memstart_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT))
 
 #define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS	0UL
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index ad87ce8..ae8f940 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -312,8 +312,8 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 		  "      .data : 0x%p" " - 0x%p" "   (%6ld KB)\n",
 		  MLG(VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END),
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
-		  MLG((unsigned long)vmemmap,
-		      (unsigned long)vmemmap + VMEMMAP_SIZE),
+		  MLG(VMEMMAP_START,
+		      VMEMMAP_START + VMEMMAP_SIZE),
 		  MLM((unsigned long)virt_to_page(PAGE_OFFSET),
 		      (unsigned long)virt_to_page(high_memory)),
 #endif
-- 
2.7.0





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