From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f69.google.com (mail-wm0-f69.google.com [74.125.82.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4466B0038 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2017 17:18:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f69.google.com with SMTP id k9so1889090wmg.11 for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de. [2a01:7a0:2:106d:700::1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k40si1484517wrf.308.2017.11.01.14.18.22 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 22:18:18 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/23] x86, kaiser: disable global pages In-Reply-To: <20171031223152.B5D241B2@viggo.jf.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <20171031223146.6B47C861@viggo.jf.intel.com> <20171031223152.B5D241B2@viggo.jf.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at, daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at, michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at, luto@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, keescook@google.com, hughd@google.com, x86@kernel.org On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Dave Hansen wrote: > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h~kaiser-prep-disable-global-pages 2017-10-31 15:03:49.314064402 -0700 > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h 2017-10-31 15:03:49.323064827 -0700 > @@ -47,7 +47,12 @@ > #define _PAGE_ACCESSED (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_ACCESSED) > #define _PAGE_DIRTY (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_DIRTY) > #define _PAGE_PSE (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_PSE) > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_GLOBAL_PAGES > #define _PAGE_GLOBAL (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_GLOBAL) > +#else > +/* We must ensure that kernel TLBs are unusable while in userspace */ > +#define _PAGE_GLOBAL (_AT(pteval_t, 0)) > +#endif What you really want to do here is to clear PAGE_GLOBAL in the supported_pte_mask. probe_page_size_mask() is the proper place for that. This allows both .config and boottime configuration. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org