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Message-Id: <20251028-uml-remove-32bit-pseudo-vdso-v1-6-e930063eff5f@weissschuh.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:15:41 +0100
From: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, 
 Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>, 
 Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, 
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
 Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, 
 x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, 
 Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-mm@...ck.org, 
 Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
Subject: [PATCH 06/10] um: Remove fixaddr_user_init()

With the removal of the vDSO passthrough from the host,
FIXADDR_USER_START is always 0 and fixaddr_user_init() is dead code.

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
---
 arch/um/kernel/mem.c | 107 ---------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 107 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c b/arch/um/kernel/mem.c
index dc938715ec9d..39c4a7e21c6f 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/mem.c
@@ -84,109 +84,6 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 	kmalloc_ok = 1;
 }
 
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_REUSE_HOST_VSYSCALL_AREA)
-/*
- * Create a page table and place a pointer to it in a middle page
- * directory entry.
- */
-static void __init one_page_table_init(pmd_t *pmd)
-{
-	if (pmd_none(*pmd)) {
-		pte_t *pte = (pte_t *) memblock_alloc_low(PAGE_SIZE,
-							  PAGE_SIZE);
-		if (!pte)
-			panic("%s: Failed to allocate %lu bytes align=%lx\n",
-			      __func__, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
-
-		set_pmd(pmd, __pmd(_KERNPG_TABLE +
-					   (unsigned long) __pa(pte)));
-		BUG_ON(pte != pte_offset_kernel(pmd, 0));
-	}
-}
-
-static void __init one_md_table_init(pud_t *pud)
-{
-#if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2
-	pmd_t *pmd_table = (pmd_t *) memblock_alloc_low(PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
-	if (!pmd_table)
-		panic("%s: Failed to allocate %lu bytes align=%lx\n",
-		      __func__, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
-
-	set_pud(pud, __pud(_KERNPG_TABLE + (unsigned long) __pa(pmd_table)));
-	BUG_ON(pmd_table != pmd_offset(pud, 0));
-#endif
-}
-
-static void __init one_ud_table_init(p4d_t *p4d)
-{
-#if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 3
-	pud_t *pud_table = (pud_t *) memblock_alloc_low(PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
-	if (!pud_table)
-		panic("%s: Failed to allocate %lu bytes align=%lx\n",
-		      __func__, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
-
-	set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(_KERNPG_TABLE + (unsigned long) __pa(pud_table)));
-	BUG_ON(pud_table != pud_offset(p4d, 0));
-#endif
-}
-
-static void __init fixrange_init(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
-				 pgd_t *pgd_base)
-{
-	pgd_t *pgd;
-	p4d_t *p4d;
-	pud_t *pud;
-	pmd_t *pmd;
-	int i, j;
-	unsigned long vaddr;
-
-	vaddr = start;
-	i = pgd_index(vaddr);
-	j = pmd_index(vaddr);
-	pgd = pgd_base + i;
-
-	for ( ; (i < PTRS_PER_PGD) && (vaddr < end); pgd++, i++) {
-		p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, vaddr);
-		if (p4d_none(*p4d))
-			one_ud_table_init(p4d);
-		pud = pud_offset(p4d, vaddr);
-		if (pud_none(*pud))
-			one_md_table_init(pud);
-		pmd = pmd_offset(pud, vaddr);
-		for (; (j < PTRS_PER_PMD) && (vaddr < end); pmd++, j++) {
-			one_page_table_init(pmd);
-			vaddr += PMD_SIZE;
-		}
-		j = 0;
-	}
-}
-
-static void __init fixaddr_user_init( void)
-{
-	long size = FIXADDR_USER_END - FIXADDR_USER_START;
-	pte_t *pte;
-	phys_t p;
-	unsigned long v, vaddr = FIXADDR_USER_START;
-
-	if (!size)
-		return;
-
-	fixrange_init( FIXADDR_USER_START, FIXADDR_USER_END, swapper_pg_dir);
-	v = (unsigned long) memblock_alloc_low(size, PAGE_SIZE);
-	if (!v)
-		panic("%s: Failed to allocate %lu bytes align=%lx\n",
-		      __func__, size, PAGE_SIZE);
-
-	memcpy((void *) v , (void *) FIXADDR_USER_START, size);
-	p = __pa(v);
-	for ( ; size > 0; size -= PAGE_SIZE, vaddr += PAGE_SIZE,
-		      p += PAGE_SIZE) {
-		pte = virt_to_kpte(vaddr);
-		pte_set_val(*pte, p, PAGE_READONLY);
-	}
-}
-#endif
-
 void __init paging_init(void)
 {
 	unsigned long max_zone_pfn[MAX_NR_ZONES] = { 0 };
@@ -199,10 +96,6 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 
 	max_zone_pfn[ZONE_NORMAL] = high_physmem >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	free_area_init(max_zone_pfn);
-
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_REUSE_HOST_VSYSCALL_AREA)
-	fixaddr_user_init();
-#endif
 }
 
 /*

-- 
2.51.1.dirty


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