Re: [PATCH v1 02/11] mm: convert track_pfn_insert() to pfnmap_sanitize_pgprot()

Peter Xu
2025-04-28T16:21:28Z

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 04:58:46PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>
> > > What it does on PAT (only implementation so far ...) is looking up the
> > > memory type to select the caching mode that can be use.
> > >
> > > "sanitize" was IMHO a good fit, because we must make sure that we don't use
> > > the wrong caching mode.
> > >
> > > update/setup/... don't make that quite clear. Any other suggestions?
> >
> > I'm very poor on naming.. :( So far anything seems slightly better than
> > sanitize to me, as the word "sanitize" is actually also used in memtype.c
> > for other purpose.. see sanitize_phys().
>
> Sure, one can sanitize a lot of things. Here it's the cachemode/pgrpot, in
> the other functions it's an address.
>
> Likely we should just call it pfnmap_X_cachemode()/
>
> Set/update don't really fit for X in case pfnmap_X_cachemode() is a NOP.
>
> pfnmap_setup_cachemode() ? Hm.

Sounds good here.

>
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > + * @pfn: the start of the pfn range
> > > > > + * @size: the size of the pfn range
> > > > > + * @prot: the pgprot to sanitize
> > > > > + *
> > > > > + * Sanitize the given pgprot for a pfn range, for example, adjusting the
> > > > > + * cachemode.
> > > > > + *
> > > > > + * This function cannot fail for a single page, but can fail for multiple
> > > > > + * pages.
> > > > > + *
> > > > > + * Returns 0 on success and -EINVAL on error.
> > > > > + */
> > > > > +int pfnmap_sanitize_pgprot(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size,
> > > > > + pgprot_t *prot);
> > > > > extern int track_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
> > > > > struct vm_area_struct *src_vma, unsigned long *pfn);
> > > > > extern void untrack_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
> > > > > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > > > index fdcf0a6049b9f..b8ae5e1493315 100644
> > > > > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > > > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > > > @@ -1455,7 +1455,9 @@ vm_fault_t vmf_insert_pfn_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, pfn_t pfn, bool write)
> > > > > return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> > > > > }
> > > > > - track_pfn_insert(vma, &pgprot, pfn);
> > > > > + if (pfnmap_sanitize_pgprot(pfn_t_to_pfn(pfn), PAGE_SIZE, &pgprot))
> > > > > + return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
> > > >
> > > > Would "pgtable" leak if it fails? If it's PAGE_SIZE, IIUC it won't ever
> > > > trigger, though.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe we could have a "void pfnmap_sanitize_pgprot_pfn(&pgprot, pfn)" to
> > > > replace track_pfn_insert() and never fail? Dropping vma ref is definitely
> > > > a win already in all cases.
> > >
> > > It could be a simple wrapper around pfnmap_sanitize_pgprot(), yes. That's
> > > certainly helpful for the single-page case.
> > >
> > > Regarding never failing here: we should check the whole range. We have to
> > > make sure that none of the pages has a memory type / caching mode that is
> > > incompatible with what we setup.
> >
> > Would it happen in real world?
> > > IIUC per-vma registration needs to happen first, which checks for
> memtype
> > conflicts in the first place, or reserve_pfn_range() could already have
> > failed.
> > > Here it's the fault path looking up the memtype, so I would expect it is
> > guaranteed all pfns under the same vma is following the verified (and same)
> > memtype?
>
> The whole point of track_pfn_insert() is that it is used when we *don't* use
> reserve_pfn_range()->track_pfn_remap(), no?
>
> track_pfn_remap() would check the whole range that gets mapped, so
> track_pfn_insert() user must similarly check the whole range that gets
> mapped.
>
> Note that even track_pfn_insert() is already pretty clear on the intended
> usage: "called when a _new_ single pfn is established"

We need to define "new" then.. But I agree it's not crystal clear at
least. I think I just wasn't the first to assume it was reserved, see this
(especially, the "Expectation" part..):

commit 5180da410db6369d1f95c9014da1c9bc33fb043e
Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Date: Mon Oct 8 16:28:29 2012 -0700

x86, pat: separate the pfn attribute tracking for remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn

With PAT enabled, vm_insert_pfn() looks up the existing pfn memory
attribute and uses it. Expectation is that the driver reserves the
memory attributes for the pfn before calling vm_insert_pfn().

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Peter Xu