Thread (54 messages) 54 messages, 12 authors, 2017-07-24

Re: KASAN vs. boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2017-07-13 13:52:35
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 03:58:29PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
On 07/11/2017 10:05 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
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Can use your Signed-off-by for a [cleaned up version of your] patch?
Sure.
Another KASAN-releated issue: dumping page tables for KASAN shadow memory
region takes unreasonable time due to kasan_zero_p?? mapped there.

The patch below helps. Any objections?
Well, page tables dump doesn't work at all on 5-level paging.
E.g. I've got this nonsense: 

....
---[ Kernel Space ]---
0xffff800000000000-0xffff808000000000         512G                               pud
---[ Low Kernel Mapping ]---
0xffff808000000000-0xffff810000000000         512G                               pud
---[ vmalloc() Area ]---
0xffff810000000000-0xffff818000000000         512G                               pud
---[ Vmemmap ]---
0xffff818000000000-0xffffff0000000000      128512G                               pud
---[ ESPfix Area ]---
0xffffff0000000000-0x0000000000000000           1T                               pud
0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000000           0E                               pgd
0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000001000           4K     RW     PCD         GLB NX pte
0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000002000           4K                               pte
0x0000000000002000-0x0000000000003000           4K     ro                 GLB NX pte
0x0000000000003000-0x0000000000004000           4K                               pte
0x0000000000004000-0x0000000000007000          12K     RW                 GLB NX pte
0x0000000000007000-0x0000000000008000           4K                               pte
0x0000000000008000-0x0000000000108000           1M     RW                 GLB NX pte
0x0000000000108000-0x0000000000109000           4K                               pte
0x0000000000109000-0x0000000000189000         512K     RW                 GLB NX pte
0x0000000000189000-0x000000000018a000           4K                               pte
0x000000000018a000-0x000000000018e000          16K     RW                 GLB NX pte
0x000000000018e000-0x000000000018f000           4K                               pte
0x000000000018f000-0x0000000000193000          16K     RW                 GLB NX pte
0x0000000000193000-0x0000000000194000           4K                               pte
... 304 entries skipped ... 
---[ EFI Runtime Services ]---
0xffffffef00000000-0xffffffff80000000          66G                               pud
---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffc0000000           1G                               pud
...
Hm. I don't see this:

...
[    0.247532] 0xff9e938000000000-0xff9f000000000000      111104G                               p4d
[    0.247733] 0xff9f000000000000-0xffff000000000000          24P                               pgd
[    0.248066] 0xffff000000000000-0xffffff0000000000         255T                               p4d
[    0.248290] ---[ ESPfix Area ]---
[    0.248393] 0xffffff0000000000-0xffffff8000000000         512G                               p4d
[    0.248663] 0xffffff8000000000-0xffffffef00000000         444G                               pud
[    0.248892] ---[ EFI Runtime Services ]---
[    0.248996] 0xffffffef00000000-0xfffffffec0000000          63G                               pud
[    0.249308] 0xfffffffec0000000-0xfffffffefe400000         996M                               pmd
...

Do you have commit "x86/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization"
in your tree?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kas/linux.git/commit/?h=la57/boot-switching/v2&id=13327fec85ffe95d9c8a3f57ba174bf5d5c1fb01
As for KASAN, I think it would be better just to make it work faster,
the patch below demonstrates the idea.
Okay, let me test this.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
index 0470826d2bdc..36515fba86b0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
+#include <linux/kasan.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
<asm/kasan.h> can be dropped. And I don't think it compiles with KASAN
disabled.

For reference, the patch I use now:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kas/linux.git/commit/?h=la57/boot-switching/v2&id=c4b1439f719b1689a1cfca9c0df17b9f8b8462b9

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 Kirill A. Shutemov
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