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| author | Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> | 2018-04-06 13:55:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-04-12 09:05:59 +0200 |
| commit | 0f561fce4d6979a50415616896512f87a6d1d5c8 (patch) | |
| tree | c65424a590f9a405e617cf042275443b53349e75 /arch/x86/mm/pti.c | |
| parent | 639d6aafe437a7464399d2a77d006049053df06f (diff) | |
| download | linux-0f561fce4d6979a50415616896512f87a6d1d5c8.tar.bz2 | |
x86/pti: Enable global pages for shared areas
The entry/exit text and cpu_entry_area are mapped into userspace and
the kernel. But, they are not _PAGE_GLOBAL. This creates unnecessary
TLB misses.
Add the _PAGE_GLOBAL flag for these areas.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406205515.2977EE7D@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pti.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c index 631507f0c198..8082f8b0c10e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c @@ -300,6 +300,27 @@ pti_clone_pmds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, pmdval_t clear) return; /* + * Only clone present PMDs. This ensures only setting + * _PAGE_GLOBAL on present PMDs. This should only be + * called on well-known addresses anyway, so a non- + * present PMD would be a surprise. + */ + if (WARN_ON(!(pmd_flags(*pmd) & _PAGE_PRESENT))) + return; + + /* + * Setting 'target_pmd' below creates a mapping in both + * the user and kernel page tables. It is effectively + * global, so set it as global in both copies. Note: + * the X86_FEATURE_PGE check is not _required_ because + * the CPU ignores _PAGE_GLOBAL when PGE is not + * supported. The check keeps consistentency with + * code that only set this bit when supported. + */ + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE)) + *pmd = pmd_set_flags(*pmd, _PAGE_GLOBAL); + + /* * Copy the PMD. That is, the kernelmode and usermode * tables will share the last-level page tables of this * address range @@ -348,7 +369,7 @@ static void __init pti_clone_entry_text(void) { pti_clone_pmds((unsigned long) __entry_text_start, (unsigned long) __irqentry_text_end, - _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_GLOBAL); + _PAGE_RW); } /* |