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While computing slice mask for the free area we need make sure we only
search in the addr limit applicable for this mmap. We update the
slb_addr_limit after we request for a mmap above 128TB. But the
following mmap request with hint addr below 128TB should still limit
its search to below 128TB. ie. we should not use slb_addr_limit to
compute slice mask in this case. Instead, we should derive high addr
limit based on the mmap hint addr value.
Fixes: f4ea6dcb08ea ("powerpc/mm: Enable mappings above 128TB")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Radix keeps no meaningful state in addr_limit, so remove it from radix
code and rename to slb_addr_limit to make it clear it applies to hash
only.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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While mapping hints with a length that cross 128TB are disallowed,
MAP_FIXED allocations that cross 128TB are allowed. These are failing
on hash (on radix they succeed). Add an additional case for fixed
mappings to expand the addr_limit when crossing 128TB.
Fixes: f4ea6dcb08ea ("powerpc/mm: Enable mappings above 128TB")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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When allocating VA space with a hint that crosses 128TB, the SLB
addr_limit variable is not expanded if addr is not > 128TB, but the
slice allocation looks at task_size, which is 512TB. This results in
slice_check_fit() incorrectly succeeding because the slice_count
truncates off bit 128 of the requested mask, so the comparison to the
available mask succeeds.
Fix this by using mm->context.addr_limit instead of mm->task_size for
testing allocation limits. This causes such allocations to fail.
Fixes: f4ea6dcb08ea ("powerpc/mm: Enable mappings above 128TB")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Reported-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Currently userspace is able to request mmap() search between 128T-512T
by specifying a hint address that is greater than 128T. But that means
a hint of 128T exactly will return an address below 128T, which is
confusing and wrong.
So fix the logic to check the hint is greater than *or equal* to 128T.
Fixes: f4ea6dcb08ea ("powerpc/mm: Enable mappings above 128TB")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Suggested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Split out of Nick's bigger patch]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.
This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.
Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.
One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications. For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).
Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.
Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.
Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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As part of the new large address space support, processes start out life with a
128TB virtual address space. However when calling mmap() a process can pass a
hint address, and if that hint is > 128TB the kernel will use the full 512TB
address space to try and satisfy the mmap() request.
Currently we have a check that the hint is > 128TB and < 512TB (TASK_SIZE),
which was added as an optimisation to avoid updating addr_limit unnecessarily
and also to avoid calling slice_flush_segments() on all CPUs more than
necessary.
However this has the user-visible side effect that an mmap() hint above 512TB
does not search the full address space unless a preceding mmap() used a hint
value > 128TB && < 512TB.
So fix it to treat any hint above 128TB as a hint to search the full address
space, instead of checking the hint against TASK_SIZE, we instead check if the
addr_limit is already == TASK_SIZE.
This also brings the ABI in-line with what is proposed on x86. ie, that a hint
address above 128TB up to and including (2^64)-1 is an indication to search the
full address space.
Fixes: f4ea6dcb08ea2c (powerpc/mm: Enable mappings above 128TB)
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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We don't init addr_limit correctly for 32 bit applications. So default to using
mm->task_size for boundary condition checking. We use addr_limit to only control
free space search. This makes sure that we do the right thing with 32 bit
applications.
We should consolidate the usage of TASK_SIZE/mm->task_size and
mm->context.addr_limit later.
This partially reverts commit fbfef9027c2a7ad (powerpc/mm: Switch some
TASK_SIZE checks to use mm_context addr_limit).
Fixes: fbfef9027c2a ("powerpc/mm: Switch some TASK_SIZE checks to use mm_context addr_limit")
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Not all user space application is ready to handle wide addresses. It's
known that at least some JIT compilers use higher bits in pointers to
encode their information. It collides with valid pointers with 512TB
addresses and leads to crashes.
To mitigate this, we are not going to allocate virtual address space
above 128TB by default.
But userspace can ask for allocation from full address space by
specifying hint address (with or without MAP_FIXED) above 128TB.
If hint address set above 128TB, but MAP_FIXED is not specified, we try
to look for unmapped area by specified address. If it's already
occupied, we look for unmapped area in *full* address space, rather than
from 128TB window.
This approach helps to easily make application's memory allocator aware
about large address space without manually tracking allocated virtual
address space.
This is going to be a per mmap decision. ie, we can have some mmaps with
larger addresses and other that do not.
A sample memory layout looks like:
10000000-10010000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 9057045 /home/max_addr_512TB
10010000-10020000 r--p 00000000 fc:00 9057045 /home/max_addr_512TB
10020000-10030000 rw-p 00010000 fc:00 9057045 /home/max_addr_512TB
10029630000-10029660000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
7fff834a0000-7fff834b0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fff834b0000-7fff83670000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 9177190 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so
7fff83670000-7fff83680000 r--p 001b0000 fc:00 9177190 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so
7fff83680000-7fff83690000 rw-p 001c0000 fc:00 9177190 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so
7fff83690000-7fff836a0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fff836a0000-7fff836c0000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
7fff836c0000-7fff83700000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 9177193 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so
7fff83700000-7fff83710000 r--p 00030000 fc:00 9177193 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so
7fff83710000-7fff83720000 rw-p 00040000 fc:00 9177193 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so
7fffdccf0000-7fffdcd20000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
1000000000000-1000000010000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
1ffff83710000-1ffff83720000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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In the followup patch, we will increase the slice array size to handle
512TB range, but will limit the max addr to 128TB. Avoid doing
unnecessary computation and avoid doing slice mask related operation
above address limit.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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We now get output like below which is much better.
[ 0.935306] good_mask low_slice: 0-15
[ 0.935360] good_mask high_slice: 0-511
Compared to
[ 0.953414] good_mask:1111111111111111 - 1111111111111.........
I also fixed an error with slice_dbg printing.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This structure definition need not be in a header since this is used only by
slice.c file. So move it to slice.c. This also allow us to use SLICE_NUM_HIGH
instead of 64.
I also switch the low_slices type to u64 from u16. This doesn't have an impact
on size of struct due to padding added with u16 type. This helps in using
bitmap printing function for printing slice mask.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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We also update the function arg to struct mm_struct. Move this so that function
finds the definition of struct mm_struct. No functional change in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This avoid copying the slice_mask struct as function return value
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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In followup patch we want to increase the va range which will result
in us requiring high_slices to have more than 64 bits. To enable this
convert high_slices to bitmap. We keep the number bits same in this patch
and later change that to higher value
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Fold in fix to use bitmap_empty()]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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For low slice, max addr should be less than 4G. Without limiting this correctly
we will end up with a low slice mask which has 17th bit set. This is not
a problem with the current code because our low slice mask is of type u16. But
in later patch I am switching low slice mask to u64 type and having the 17bit
set result in wrong slice mask which in turn results in mmap failures.
Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Radix doesn't need slice support. Catch incorrect usage of slice code
when radix is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Radix and hash MMU models support different page table sizes. Make
the #defines a variable so that existing code can work with variable
sizes.
Slice related code is only used by hash, so use hash constants there. We
will replicate some of the boundary conditions with resepct to TASK_SIZE
using radix values too. Right now we do boundary condition check using
hash constants.
Swapper pgdir size is initialized in asm code. We select the max pgd
size to keep it simple. For now we select hash pgdir. When adding radix
we will switch that to radix pgdir which is 64K.
BUILD_BUG_ON check which is removed is already done in hugepage_init()
using MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON().
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This adds a function to copy the mm->context to the paca. This is
only a basic conversion for now but will be used more extensively in
the next patch.
This also adds #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S around this code since it's
not used elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Remove slice_set_psize() which is not used.
It was added in 3a8247cc2c85 "powerpc: Only demote individual slices
rather than whole process" but was never used.
Remove vsx_assist_exception() which is not used.
It was added in ce48b2100785 "powerpc: Add VSX context save/restore,
ptrace and signal support" but was never used.
Remove generic_mach_cpu_die() which is not used.
Its last caller was removed in 375f561a4131 "powerpc/powernv: Always go
into nap mode when CPU is offline".
Remove mpc7448_hpc2_power_off() and mpc7448_hpc2_halt() which are
unused.
These were introduced in c5d56332fd6c "[POWERPC] Add general support for
mpc7448hpc2 (Taiga) platform" but were never used.
This was partially found by using a static code analysis program called
cppcheck.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
[mpe: Update changelog with details on when/why they are unused]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c:704:5: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before numeric constant
int is_hugepage_only_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
^
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/mm/slice.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/powerpc/mm/slice.o] Error 2
This got introduced via 1217d34b531c76362217057ca70a8ce8950574e0
"powerpc: Ensure global functions include their prototype". We
started including linux/hugetlb.h with that patch and now we have
#define is_hugepage_only_range(mm, addr, len) 0
with hugetlbfs disabled.
Fixes: 1217d34b531c ("powerpc: Ensure global functions include their prototype")
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This moves spu_flush_all_slbs() into a generic call copro_flush_all_slbs().
This will be useful when we add cxl which also needs a similar SLB flush call.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Fix a number of places where global functions were not including
their prototype. This ensures the prototype and the function match.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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allowed address space
According to Posix, if MAP_FIXED is specified mmap shall set ENOMEM if
the requested mapping exceeds the allowed range for address space of
the process. The generic code set it right, but the specific powerpc
slice_get_unmapped_area() function currently returns -EINVAL in that
case.
This patch corrects it.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Commit fba2369e6ceb (mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on powerpc architecture)
has a bug in slice_scan_available() where we compare an unsigned long
(high_slices) against a shifted int. As a result, comparisons against
the top 32 bits of high_slices (representing the top 32TB) always
returns 0 and the top of our mmap region is clamped at 32TB
This also breaks mmap randomisation since the randomised address is
always up near the top of the address space and it gets clamped down
to 32TB.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Update the powerpc slice_get_unmapped_area function to make use of
vm_unmapped_area() instead of implementing a brute force search.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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As all other architectures have been converted to use vm_unmapped_area(),
we are about to retire the free_area_cache.
This change simply removes the use of that cache in
slice_get_unmapped_area(), which will most certainly have a
performance cost. Next one will convert that function to use the
vm_unmapped_area() infrastructure and regain the performance.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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"Whether" is misspelled in various comments across the tree; this
fixes them. No code changes.
Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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slice array size and slice mask size depend on PGTABLE_RANGE.
Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This patch makes the high psizes mask as an unsigned char array
so that we can have more than 16TB. Currently we support upto
64TB
Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure. We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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powerpc: is_hugepage_only_range() must account for both 4kB and 64kB slices
The subpage_prot syscall fails on second and subsequent calls for a given
region, because is_hugepage_only_range() is mis-identifying the 4 kB
slices when the process has a 64 kB page size.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Manual merge of:
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c
arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c
arch/ppc/kernel/smp.c
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At present, if we have a kernel with a 64kB page size, and some
process maps something that has to be mapped with 4kB pages (such as a
cache-inhibited mapping on POWER5+, or the eHCA infiniband queue-pair
pages), we change the process to use 4kB pages everywhere. This hurts
the performance of HPC programs that access eHCA from userspace.
With this patch, the kernel will only demote the slice(s) containing
the eHCA or cache-inhibited mappings, leaving the remaining slices
able to use 64kB hardware pages.
This also changes the slice_get_unmapped_area code so that it is
willing to place a 64k-page mapping into (or across) a 4k-page slice
if there is no better alternative, i.e. if the program specified
MAP_FIXED or if there is not sufficient space available in slices that
are either empty or already have 64k-page mappings in them.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Replace some SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED with DEFINE_SPINLOCK
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_64.c: In function 'init_new_context':
arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_64.c:31: warning: unused variable 'new_context'
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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My "slices" address space management code that was added in the 2.6.22
implementation of get_unmapped_area() doesn't properly check that the
size is a multiple of the requested page size. This allows userland to
create VMAs that aren't a multiple of the huge page size with hugetlbfs
(since hugetlbfs entirely relies on get_unmapped_area() to do that
checking) which leads to a kernel BUG() when such areas are torn down.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The basic issue is to be able to do what hugetlbfs does but with
different page sizes for some other special filesystems; more
specifically, my need is:
- Huge pages
- SPE local store mappings using 64K pages on a 4K base page size
kernel on Cell
- Some special 4K segments in 64K-page kernels for mapping a dodgy
type of powerpc-specific infiniband hardware that requires 4K MMU
mappings for various reasons I won't explain here.
The main issues are:
- To maintain/keep track of the page size per "segment" (as we can
only have one page size per segment on powerpc, which are 256MB
divisions of the address space).
- To make sure special mappings stay within their allotted
"segments" (including MAP_FIXED crap)
- To make sure everybody else doesn't mmap/brk/grow_stack into a
"segment" that is used for a special mapping
Some of the necessary mechanisms to handle that were present in the
hugetlbfs code, but mostly in ways not suitable for anything else.
The patch relies on some changes to the generic get_unmapped_area()
that just got merged. It still hijacks hugetlb callbacks here or
there as the generic code hasn't been entirely cleaned up yet but
that shouldn't be a problem.
So what is a slice ? Well, I re-used the mechanism used formerly by our
hugetlbfs implementation which divides the address space in
"meta-segments" which I called "slices". The division is done using
256MB slices below 4G, and 1T slices above. Thus the address space is
divided currently into 16 "low" slices and 16 "high" slices. (Special
case: high slice 0 is the area between 4G and 1T).
Doing so simplifies significantly the tracking of segments and avoids
having to keep track of all the 256MB segments in the address space.
While I used the "concepts" of hugetlbfs, I mostly re-implemented
everything in a more generic way and "ported" hugetlbfs to it.
Slices can have an associated page size, which is encoded in the mmu
context and used by the SLB miss handler to set the segment sizes. The
hash code currently doesn't care, it has a specific check for hugepages,
though I might add a mechanism to provide per-slice hash mapping
functions in the future.
The slice code provide a pair of "generic" get_unmapped_area() (bottomup
and topdown) functions that should work with any slice size. There is
some trickiness here so I would appreciate people to have a look at the
implementation of these and let me know if I got something wrong.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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