linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm/kaiser: Disable global pages by default with KAISER

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1711271423040.1799@nanos>
Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 14:23:41 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
cc:     Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, bp@...e.de,
        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
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm/kaiser: Disable global pages by default with
 KAISER

On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Nov 2017, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >  * Disable global pages for anything using the default
> > >  * __PAGE_KERNEL* macros.
> > >  *
> > >  * PGE will still be enabled and _PAGE_GLOBAL may still be used carefully
> > >  * for a few selected kernel mappings which must be visible to userspace,
> > >  * when KAISER is enabled, like the entry/exit code and data.
> > >  */
> > > #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER
> > > #define __PAGE_KERNEL_GLOBAL	0
> > > #else
> > > #define __PAGE_KERNEL_GLOBAL	_PAGE_GLOBAL
> > > #endif
> > > 
> > > ... and I've added your Reviewed-by tag which I assume now applies?
> > 
> > Ideally we replace the whole patch with the __supported_pte_mask one which
> > I posted as a delta patch.
> 
> Yeah, so I squashed these two patches:
> 
>   09d76fc407e0: x86/mm/kaiser: Disable global pages by default with KAISER
>   bac79112ee4a: x86/mm/kaiser: Simplify disabling of global pages
> 
> into a single patch, which results in the single patch below, with an updated 
> changelog that reflects the cleanups. I kept Dave's authorship and credited you 
> for the simplification.
> 
> Note that the squashed commit had some whitespace noise which I skipped, further 
> simplifying the patch.
> 
> Is it OK this way? If yes then I'll reshuffle the tree with this variant.

Yes.

Thanks,

	tglx