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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspam07 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 473B8140004 X-Stat-Signature: t1nki13py4e9846frnynbdoqwc9ohk7s X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1755503341-652372 X-HE-Meta: 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 3O0TWP58 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 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 18.08.25 04:02, Harry Yoo wrote: > Introduce and use {pgd,p4d}_populate_kernel() in core MM code when > populating PGD and P4D entries for the kernel address space. > These helpers ensure proper synchronization of page tables when > updating the kernel portion of top-level page tables. > > Until now, the kernel has relied on each architecture to handle > synchronization of top-level page tables in an ad-hoc manner. > For example, see commit 9b861528a801 ("x86-64, mem: Update all PGDs for > direct mapping and vmemmap mapping changes"). > > However, this approach has proven fragile for following reasons: > > 1) It is easy to forget to perform the necessary page table > synchronization when introducing new changes. > For instance, commit 4917f55b4ef9 ("mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory > savings for compound devmaps") overlooked the need to synchronize > page tables for the vmemmap area. > > 2) It is also easy to overlook that the vmemmap and direct mapping areas > must not be accessed before explicit page table synchronization. > For example, commit 8d400913c231 ("x86/vmemmap: handle unpopulated > sub-pmd ranges")) caused crashes by accessing the vmemmap area > before calling sync_global_pgds(). > > To address this, as suggested by Dave Hansen, introduce _kernel() variants > of the page table population helpers, which invoke architecture-specific > hooks to properly synchronize page tables. These are introduced in a new > header file, include/linux/pgalloc.h, so they can be called from common code. > > They reuse existing infrastructure for vmalloc and ioremap. > Synchronization requirements are determined by ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK, > and the actual synchronization is performed by arch_sync_kernel_mappings(). > > This change currently targets only x86_64, so only PGD and P4D level > helpers are introduced. Currently, these helpers are no-ops since no > architecture sets PGTBL_{PGD,P4D}_MODIFIED in ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK. > > In theory, PUD and PMD level helpers can be added later if needed by > other architectures. For now, 32-bit architectures (x86-32 and arm) only > handle PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED, so p*d_populate_kernel() will never affect > them unless we introduce a PMD level helper. > > Cc: > Fixes: 8d400913c231 ("x86/vmemmap: handle unpopulated sub-pmd ranges") > Suggested-by: Dave Hansen > Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau > Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) > Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes > Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo > --- Acked-by: David Hildenbrand -- Cheers David / dhildenb