From: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> There are a few cases where we omit the contiguous hint for mappings that start out as read-write and are remapped read-only later, on the basis that manipulating live descriptors with the PTE_CONT attribute set is unsafe. When support for the contiguous hint was added to the code, the ARM ARM was ambiguous about this, and so we erred on the side of caution.
In the meantime, this has been clarified [0], and regions that will be remapped in their entirety can use the contiguous hint both in the initial mapping as well as the one that replaces it. Note that this requires that the logic that may be called to remap overlapping regions respects existing valid descriptors that have the contiguous bit cleared. So omit the NO_CONT_MAPPINGS flag in places where it is unneeded. Thanks to Ryan for the reference. [0] RJQQTC For a TLB lookup in a contiguous region mapped by translation table entries that have consistent values for the Contiguous bit, but have the OA, attributes, or permissions misprogrammed, that TLB lookup is permitted to produce an OA, access permissions, and memory attributes that are consistent with any one of the programmed translation table values. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> --- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c index 1c434c242641..b52254790fda 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c @@ -980,8 +980,7 @@ void __init create_mapping_noalloc(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned long virt, &phys, virt); return; } - early_create_pgd_mapping(init_mm.pgd, phys, virt, size, prot, NULL, - NO_CONT_MAPPINGS); + early_create_pgd_mapping(init_mm.pgd, phys, virt, size, prot, NULL, 0); } void __init create_pgd_mapping(struct mm_struct *mm, phys_addr_t phys, @@ -1008,8 +1007,7 @@ static void update_mapping_prot(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned long virt, return; } - early_create_pgd_mapping(init_mm.pgd, phys, virt, size, prot, NULL, - NO_CONT_MAPPINGS); + early_create_pgd_mapping(init_mm.pgd, phys, virt, size, prot, NULL, 0); /* flush the TLBs after updating live kernel mappings */ flush_tlb_kernel_range(virt, virt + size); @@ -1155,10 +1153,8 @@ static void __init map_mem(void) * alternative patching has completed). This makes the contents * of the region accessible to subsystems such as hibernate, * but protects it from inadvertent modification or execution. - * Note that contiguous mappings cannot be remapped in this way, - * so we should avoid them here. */ - __map_memblock(kernel_start, kernel_end, PAGE_KERNEL, NO_CONT_MAPPINGS); + __map_memblock(kernel_start, kernel_end, PAGE_KERNEL, 0); memblock_clear_nomap(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start); } -- 2.53.0.959.g497ff81fa9-goog
