Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 2 authors, 2019-09-20

[PATCH v5 2/3] arm64: mm: implement arch_faults_on_old_pte() on arm64

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From: Jia He <hidden>
Date: 2019-09-19 16:12:28
Also in: linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds

Revision v5 of 8 in this series.

Revisions (8)
  1. v3 [diff vs current]
  2. v4 [diff vs current]
  3. v5 current
  4. v6 [diff vs current]
  5. v7 [diff vs current]
  6. v8 [diff vs current]
  7. v9 [diff vs current]
  8. v10 [diff vs current]
On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying fromuser will fail because
the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we always end up with zeroed
page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we don't always have a
hardware-managed access flag on arm64.

Hence implement arch_faults_on_old_pte on arm64 to indicate that it might
cause page fault when accessing old pte.

Signed-off-by: Jia He <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index e09760ece844..4a9939615e41 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -868,6 +868,18 @@ static inline void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 #define phys_to_ttbr(addr)	(addr)
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying fromuser will fail because
+ * the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we always end up with zeroed
+ * page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we don't always have a
+ * hardware-managed access flag on arm64.
+ */
+static inline bool arch_faults_on_old_pte(void)
+{
+	return !cpu_has_hw_af();
+}
+#define arch_faults_on_old_pte arch_faults_on_old_pte
+
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #endif /* __ASM_PGTABLE_H */
-- 
2.17.1


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