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Message-ID: <63e716ee-ad77-c087-20a7-4fda06ec1f68@csgroup.eu>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 06:26:42 +0000
From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Steve Capper <steve.capper@....com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10] mm, hugetlbfs: Allow for "high" userspace addresses
Hi Catalin,
Le 16/04/2022 à 00:09, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 16:45:13 +0200 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu> wrote:
>
>> This is a fix for commit f6795053dac8 ("mm: mmap: Allow for "high"
>> userspace addresses") for hugetlb.
>>
>> This patch adds support for "high" userspace addresses that are
>> optionally supported on the system and have to be requested via a hint
>> mechanism ("high" addr parameter to mmap).
>>
>> Architectures such as powerpc and x86 achieve this by making changes to
>> their architectural versions of hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() function.
>> However, arm64 uses the generic version of that function.
>>
>> So take into account arch_get_mmap_base() and arch_get_mmap_end() in
>> hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(). To allow that, move those two macros
>> out of mm/mmap.c into include/linux/sched/mm.h
>>
>> If these macros are not defined in architectural code then they default
>> to (TASK_SIZE) and (base) so should not introduce any behavioural
>> changes to architectures that do not define them.
>>
>> For the time being, only ARM64 is affected by this change.
>>
>> >From Catalin (ARM64):
>> We should have fixed hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() as well when we
>> added support for 52-bit VA. The reason for commit f6795053dac8 was to
>> prevent normal mmap() from returning addresses above 48-bit by default
>> as some user-space had hard assumptions about this.
>>
>> It's a slight ABI change if you do this for hugetlb_get_unmapped_area()
>> but I doubt anyone would notice. It's more likely that the current
>> behaviour would cause issues, so I'd rather have them consistent.
>
> I'm struggling to understand the need for a -stable backport from the
> above text.
>
> Could we please get a simple statement of the end-user visible effects
> of the shortcoming? Target audience is -stable tree maintainers, and
> people who we've never heard of who will be wondering whether they should
> add this to their organization's older kernel.
Catalin, can you help answering this question ? It was your
recommendation to tag this patch for stable in
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/db238c1ca2d46e33c57328f8d450f2563e92f8c2.1639736449.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/
>
>> fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 9 +++++----
>> include/linux/sched/mm.h | 8 ++++++++
>> mm/mmap.c | 8 --------
>> 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> I'm a bit surprised that this has reached version 10! Was it really
> that tricky?
>
Well, that's the series it was part of that has reached v10. This patch
was introduced in the series in v6
v6:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/db238c1ca2d46e33c57328f8d450f2563e92f8c2.1639736449.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/
v7:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/6c95091eab9f58cee58da3762a4dc4c56ab700e7.1642752946.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/
v8:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/c234ceaf81ff37447fec5c9813d4ba5fc472a355.1646847562.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/
v9:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/3bb944642140841c065f1cd6eae73f084fc026d2.1649401201.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/
Thanks
Christophe
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