linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/23] [v4] KAISER: unmap most of the kernel from userspace page tables

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Date:   Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:23:59 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        moritz.lipp@...k.tugraz.at, daniel.gruss@...k.tugraz.at,
        michael.schwarz@...k.tugraz.at, richard.fellner@...dent.tugraz.at,
        luto@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        keescook@...gle.com, hughd@...gle.com, x86@...nel.org,
        jgross@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] [v4] KAISER: unmap most of the kernel from
 userspace page tables


* Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> Thanks, everyone for all the reviews thus far.  I hope I managed to
> address all the feedback given so far, except for the TODOs of
> course.  This is a pretty minor update compared to v1->v2.
> 
> These patches are all on this tip branch:
> 
> 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/log/?h=WIP.x86/mm

Note that on top of latest -tip the bzImage build fails with:

 arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.o: In function `kernel_ident_mapping_init':
 pagetable.c:(.text+0x31b): undefined reference to `kaiser_enabled'
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:109: recipe for target 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux' failed

that's I think because the early boot code shares some code via 
kernel_ident_mapping_init() et al, and that code grew a new KAISER runtime 
variable which isn't present in the special early-boot environment.

I.e. something like the (totally untested) patch below should do the trick.

Thanks,

	Ingo

---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Index: tip/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.c
===================================================================
--- tip.orig/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.c
+++ tip/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.c
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@
 /* Used by pgtable.h asm code to force instruction serialization. */
 unsigned long __force_order;
 
+/*
+ * We share the kernel_ident_mapping_init(), but the early boot version does not need
+ * the Kaiser-logic:
+ */
+int kaiser_enabled = 0;
+
 /* Used to track our page table allocation area. */
 struct alloc_pgt_data {
 	unsigned char *pgt_buf;