linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/11] x86/pti: enable global pages for shared areas

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Date:   Wed, 4 Apr 2018 20:14:11 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "keescook@...gle.com" <keescook@...gle.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] x86/pti: enable global pages for shared areas

On Wed, 4 Apr 2018, Nadav Amit wrote:
> Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On 04/03/2018 09:45 PM, Nadav Amit wrote:
> >> Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> >>> void cea_set_pte(void *cea_vaddr, phys_addr_t pa, pgprot_t flags)
> >>> {
> >>> 	unsigned long va = (unsigned long) cea_vaddr;
> >>> +	pte_t pte = pfn_pte(pa >> PAGE_SHIFT, flags);
> >>> 
> >>> -	set_pte_vaddr(va, pfn_pte(pa >> PAGE_SHIFT, flags));
> >>> +	/*
> >>> +	 * The cpu_entry_area is shared between the user and kernel
> >>> +	 * page tables.  All of its ptes can safely be global.
> >>> +	 */
> >>> +	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE))
> >>> +		pte = pte_set_flags(pte, _PAGE_GLOBAL);
> >> 
> >> I think it would be safer to check that the PTE is indeed present before
> >> setting _PAGE_GLOBAL. For example, percpu_setup_debug_store() sets PAGE_NONE
> >> for non-present entries. In this case, since PAGE_NONE and PAGE_GLOBAL use
> >> the same bit, everything would be fine, but it might cause bugs one day.
> > 
> > That's a reasonable safety thing to add, I think.
> > 
> > But, looking at it, I am wondering why we did this in
> > percpu_setup_debug_store():
> > 
> >        for (; npages; npages--, cea += PAGE_SIZE)
> >                cea_set_pte(cea, 0, PAGE_NONE);
> > 
> > Did we really want that to be PAGE_NONE, or was it supposed to create a
> > PTE that returns true for pte_none()?
> 
> I yield it to others to answer...

My bad. I should have used pgprot(0).

Thanks,

	tglx