From: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> On architectures where a pgd entry may be shared between user and kernel (ARM+LPAE), freeing page tables needs a ceiling other than 0. This patch introduces a generic USER_PGTABLES_CEILING that arch code can override.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> [[email protected]: commit log; shift_arg_pages(), asm-generic/pgtables.h changes] Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Cc: Russell King <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> --- fs/exec.c | 4 ++-- include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 10 ++++++++++ mm/mmap.c | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 20df02c..547eaaa 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ static int shift_arg_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long shift) * when the old and new regions overlap clear from new_end. */ free_pgd_range(&tlb, new_end, old_end, new_end, - vma->vm_next ? vma->vm_next->vm_start : 0); + vma->vm_next ? vma->vm_next->vm_start : USER_PGTABLES_CEILING); } else { /* * otherwise, clean from old_start; this is done to not touch @@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ static int shift_arg_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long shift) * for the others its just a little faster. */ free_pgd_range(&tlb, old_start, old_end, new_end, - vma->vm_next ? vma->vm_next->vm_start : 0); + vma->vm_next ? vma->vm_next->vm_start : USER_PGTABLES_CEILING); } tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, new_end, old_end); diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h index 5cf680a..f50a87d 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h @@ -7,6 +7,16 @@ #include <linux/mm_types.h> #include <linux/bug.h> +/* + * On almost all architectures and configurations, 0 can be used as the + * upper ceiling to free_pgtables(): on many architectures it has the same + * effect as using TASK_SIZE. However, there is one configuration which + * must impose a more careful limit, to avoid freeing kernel pgtables. + */ +#ifndef USER_PGTABLES_CEILING +#define USER_PGTABLES_CEILING 0UL +#endif + #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS extern int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep, diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index d1e4124..e262710 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -2262,7 +2262,7 @@ static void unmap_region(struct mm_struct *mm, update_hiwater_rss(mm); unmap_vmas(&tlb, vma, start, end); free_pgtables(&tlb, vma, prev ? prev->vm_end : FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, - next ? next->vm_start : 0); + next ? next->vm_start : USER_PGTABLES_CEILING); tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, start, end); } @@ -2640,7 +2640,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm) /* Use -1 here to ensure all VMAs in the mm are unmapped */ unmap_vmas(&tlb, vma, 0, -1); - free_pgtables(&tlb, vma, FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, 0); + free_pgtables(&tlb, vma, FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, USER_PGTABLES_CEILING); tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, 0, -1); /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
