From: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, x86@kernel.org,
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christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu, alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 00/12] Support page table check on PowerPC
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:42:35 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <336c0402c59363956d0c4eefc1b8a059e1fcc8e4.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250909091335.183439-1-ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Hi Andrew,
On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 19:13 +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> Support page table check on all PowerPC platforms. This works by serialising
> assignments, reassignments and clears of page table entries at each level in
> order to ensure that anonymous mappings have at most one writable consumer,
> and likewise that file-backed mappings are not simultaneously also anonymous
> mappings.
>
> In order to support this infrastructure, a number of helpers or stubs must be
> defined or updated for all powerpc platforms. Additionally, we separate
> set_pte_at() and set_pte_at_unchecked(), to allow for internal, uninstrumented
> mappings.
>
> On some PowerPC platforms, implementing {pte,pmd,pud}_user_accessible_page()
> requires the address. We revert previous changes that removed the address
> parameter from various interfaces, and add it to some other interfaces,
> in order to allow this.
>
> Note that on 32 bit systems with CONFIG_KFENCE=y, you need [0] to avoid
> possible failures in init code (this is a code patching/static keys issue,
> which was discovered by a user testing this series but isn't a bug in page
> table check).
>
> (This series was initially written by Rohan McLure, who has left IBM and
> is no longer working on powerpc.)
Is this likely to make it in in time for 6.18, or should I respin it post merge
window?
Thanks,
Andrew
--
Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd@linux.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-25 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-09 9:13 Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 01/12] arm64/mm: Add addr parameter to __set_ptes_anysz() Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 02/12] arm64/mm: Add addr parameter to __ptep_get_and_clear_anysz() Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 03/12] mm/page_table_check: Reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pud[s]_set() Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 04/12] mm/page_table_check: Reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pmd[s]_set() Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 05/12] mm/page_table_check: Provide addr parameter to page_table_check_ptes_set() Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 06/12] mm/page_table_check: Reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pud_clear() Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 07/12] mm/page_table_check: Reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pmd_clear() Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 08/12] mm/page_table_check: Reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pte_clear() Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 09/12] mm: Provide address parameter to p{te,md,ud}_user_accessible_page() Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 10/12] powerpc: mm: Implement *_user_accessible_page() for ptes Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 11/12] powerpc: mm: Use set_pte_at_unchecked() for internal usages Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v17 12/12] powerpc: mm: Support page table check Andrew Donnellan
2025-09-25 22:42 ` Andrew Donnellan [this message]
2025-09-25 23:17 ` [PATCH v17 00/12] Support page table check on PowerPC Andrew Morton
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