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authorArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2020-10-08 17:36:00 +0200
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2020-11-09 17:15:37 +0000
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arm64: mm: extend linear region for 52-bit VA configurations
For historical reasons, the arm64 kernel VA space is configured as two equally sized halves, i.e., on a 48-bit VA build, the VA space is split into a 47-bit vmalloc region and a 47-bit linear region. When support for 52-bit virtual addressing was added, this equal split was kept, resulting in a substantial waste of virtual address space in the linear region: 48-bit VA 52-bit VA 0xffff_ffff_ffff_ffff +-------------+ +-------------+ | vmalloc | | vmalloc | 0xffff_8000_0000_0000 +-------------+ _PAGE_END(48) +-------------+ | linear | : : 0xffff_0000_0000_0000 +-------------+ : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : currently : : unusable : : : : : : unused : : by : : : : : : : : hardware : : : : : : : 0xfff8_0000_0000_0000 : : _PAGE_END(52) +-------------+ : : | | : : | | : : | | : : | | : : | | : unusable : | | : : | linear | : by : | | : : | region | : hardware : | | : : | | : : | | : : | | : : | | : : | | : : | | 0xfff0_0000_0000_0000 +-------------+ PAGE_OFFSET +-------------+ As illustrated above, the 52-bit VA kernel uses 47 bits for the vmalloc space (as before), to ensure that a single 64k granule kernel image can support any 64k granule capable system, regardless of whether it supports the 52-bit virtual addressing extension. However, due to the fact that the VA space is still split in equal halves, the linear region is only 2^51 bytes in size, wasting almost half of the 52-bit VA space. Let's fix this, by abandoning the equal split, and simply assigning all VA space outside of the vmalloc region to the linear region. The KASAN shadow region is reconfigured so that it ends at the start of the vmalloc region, and grows downwards. That way, the arrangement of the vmalloc space (which contains kernel mappings, modules, BPF region, the vmemmap array etc) is identical between non-KASAN and KASAN builds, which aids debugging. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201008153602.9467-3-ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst b/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst
index cf03b3290800..ee51eb66a578 100644
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@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ AArch64 Linux memory layout with 4KB pages + 4 levels (48-bit)::
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
0000000000000000 0000ffffffffffff 256TB user
ffff000000000000 ffff7fffffffffff 128TB kernel logical memory map
- ffff800000000000 ffff9fffffffffff 32TB kasan shadow region
- ffffa00000000000 ffffa00007ffffff 128MB bpf jit region
- ffffa00008000000 ffffa0000fffffff 128MB modules
- ffffa00010000000 fffffdffbffeffff ~93TB vmalloc
+[ ffff600000000000 ffff7fffffffffff ] 32TB [ kasan shadow region ]
+ ffff800000000000 ffff800007ffffff 128MB bpf jit region
+ ffff800008000000 ffff80000fffffff 128MB modules
+ ffff800010000000 fffffdffbffeffff 125TB vmalloc
fffffdffbfff0000 fffffdfffe5f8fff ~998MB [guard region]
fffffdfffe5f9000 fffffdfffe9fffff 4124KB fixed mappings
fffffdfffea00000 fffffdfffebfffff 2MB [guard region]
@@ -50,12 +50,11 @@ AArch64 Linux memory layout with 64KB pages + 3 levels (52-bit with HW support):
Start End Size Use
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
0000000000000000 000fffffffffffff 4PB user
- fff0000000000000 fff7ffffffffffff 2PB kernel logical memory map
- fff8000000000000 fffd9fffffffffff 1440TB [gap]
- fffda00000000000 ffff9fffffffffff 512TB kasan shadow region
- ffffa00000000000 ffffa00007ffffff 128MB bpf jit region
- ffffa00008000000 ffffa0000fffffff 128MB modules
- ffffa00010000000 fffff81ffffeffff ~88TB vmalloc
+ fff0000000000000 ffff7fffffffffff ~4PB kernel logical memory map
+[ fffd800000000000 ffff7fffffffffff ] 512TB [ kasan shadow region ]
+ ffff800000000000 ffff800007ffffff 128MB bpf jit region
+ ffff800008000000 ffff80000fffffff 128MB modules
+ ffff800010000000 fffff81ffffeffff 120TB vmalloc
fffff81fffff0000 fffffc1ffe58ffff ~3TB [guard region]
fffffc1ffe590000 fffffc1ffe9fffff 4544KB fixed mappings
fffffc1ffea00000 fffffc1ffebfffff 2MB [guard region]