Patch "arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm64-vmemmap-use-virtual-projection-of-linear-region.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From dfd55ad85e4a7fbaa82df12467515ac3c81e8a3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:57:13 +0100
Subject: arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@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@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |    7 ++++---
 arch/arm64/mm/init.c             |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@
 /*
  * 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)
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_KASAN
 #define VMALLOC_START		(VA_START)
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@
 
 #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
 
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 #endif
 		  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


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org are

queue-4.4/arm64-vmemmap-use-virtual-projection-of-linear-region.patch