linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 12/18] arm64/mm: Wire up PTE

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:56:10 +0000
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 12/18] arm64/mm: Wire up PTE_CONT for user mappings

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 12:53:43PM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> On 16/02/2024 12:25, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:31:59AM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> >>  arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c          | 285 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 
> > Nitpick: I think most symbols in contpte.c can be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().
> > We don't expect them to be used by random out of tree modules. In fact,
> > do we expect them to end up in modules at all? Most seem to be called
> > from the core mm code.
> 
> The problem is that the contpte_* symbols are called from the ptep_* inline
> functions. So where those inlines are called from modules, we need to make sure
> the contpte_* symbols are available.
> 
> John Hubbard originally reported this problem against v1 and I enumerated all
> the drivers that call into the ptep_* inlines here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/b994ff89-1a1f-26ca-9479-b08c77f94be8@arm.com/#t
> 
> So they definitely need to be exported. Perhaps we can tighten it to
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), but I was being cautious as I didn't want to break anything
> out-of-tree. I'm not sure what the normal policy is? arm64 seems to use ~equal
> amounts of both.

I don't think we are consistent here. For example set_pte_at() can't be
called from non-GPL modules because of __sync_icache_dcache. OTOH, such
driver is probably doing something dodgy. Same with
apply_to_page_range(), it's GPL-only (called from i915).

Let's see if others have any view over the next week or so, otherwise
I'd go for _GPL and relax it later if someone has a good use-case (can
be a patch on top adding _GPL).

> > If you can make this easier to parse (in a few years time) with an
> > additional patch adding some more comments, that would be great. For
> > this patch:
> 
> I already have a big block comment at the top, which was trying to explain it.
> Clearly not well enough though. I'll add more comments as a follow up patch when
> I get back from holiday.

I read that comment but it wasn't immediately obvious what the atomicity
requirements are - basically we require a single PTE to be atomically
read (which it is), the rest is the dirty/young state being added on
top. I guess a sentence along these lines would do.

Enjoy your holiday!

-- 
Catalin