[RFC PATCH v2 2/4] arm64: mm: Use fault handler to permit swapper_pg_dir updates
From: Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-27 16:44:57
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arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Instead of checking the destination of a page table descriptor update against the virtual address of swapper_pg_dir in the kernel image, and taking a dedicated path to perform such updates via a fixmap alias, rely on a fault handler to do so if the plain store faulted. This is more efficient for the general case, and makes it more straight-forward to extend this logic to other page tables that may have been allocated statically in the .rodata region of the kernel image. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 49 +++++++++----------- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 18 +++---- 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h
index 9191125738e9..8db791dcb4cb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ enum fixed_addresses { FIX_PUD, FIX_P4D, FIX_PGD, + FIX_PTVAL, __end_of_fixed_addresses };
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 6000905a2e86..799cd9d52c28 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ #include <asm/cmpxchg.h> #include <asm/fixmap.h> #include <asm/por.h> +#include <asm/uaccess.h> #include <linux/mmdebug.h> #include <linux/mm_types.h> #include <linux/sched.h>
@@ -814,7 +815,7 @@ extern pgd_t idmap_pg_dir[]; extern pgd_t tramp_pg_dir[]; extern pgd_t reserved_pg_dir[]; -extern void set_swapper_pgd(pgd_t *pgdp, pgd_t pgd); +void try_set_readonly_ptval(ptval_t *ptvalp, ptval_t ptval); static inline bool in_swapper_pgdir(void *addr) {
@@ -824,17 +825,14 @@ static inline bool in_swapper_pgdir(void *addr) static inline void set_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd) { -#ifdef __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED - if (in_swapper_pgdir(pmdp)) { - set_swapper_pgd((pgd_t *)pmdp, __pgd(pmd_val(pmd))); - return; - } -#endif /* __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED */ - - WRITE_ONCE(*pmdp, pmd); + __put_kernel_nofault(pmdp, &pmd, pmd_t, fault); if (pmd_valid(pmd)) queue_pte_barriers(); + return; + +fault: + try_set_readonly_ptval(&pmd_val(*pmdp), pmd_val(pmd)); } static inline void pmd_clear(pmd_t *pmdp)
@@ -890,15 +888,14 @@ static inline bool pgtable_l4_enabled(void); static inline void set_pud(pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud) { - if (!pgtable_l4_enabled() && in_swapper_pgdir(pudp)) { - set_swapper_pgd((pgd_t *)pudp, __pgd(pud_val(pud))); - return; - } - - WRITE_ONCE(*pudp, pud); + __put_kernel_nofault(pudp, &pud, pud_t, fault); if (pud_valid(pud)) queue_pte_barriers(); + return; + +fault: + try_set_readonly_ptval(&pud_val(*pudp), pud_val(pud)); } static inline void pud_clear(pud_t *pudp)
@@ -971,13 +968,12 @@ static inline bool mm_pud_folded(const struct mm_struct *mm) static inline void set_p4d(p4d_t *p4dp, p4d_t p4d) { - if (in_swapper_pgdir(p4dp)) { - set_swapper_pgd((pgd_t *)p4dp, __pgd(p4d_val(p4d))); - return; - } - - WRITE_ONCE(*p4dp, p4d); + __put_kernel_nofault(p4dp, &p4d, p4d_t, fault); queue_pte_barriers(); + return; + +fault: + try_set_readonly_ptval(&p4d_val(*p4dp), p4d_val(p4d)); } static inline void p4d_clear(p4d_t *p4dp)
@@ -1099,13 +1095,12 @@ static inline bool mm_p4d_folded(const struct mm_struct *mm) static inline void set_pgd(pgd_t *pgdp, pgd_t pgd) { - if (in_swapper_pgdir(pgdp)) { - set_swapper_pgd(pgdp, __pgd(pgd_val(pgd))); - return; - } - - WRITE_ONCE(*pgdp, pgd); + __put_kernel_nofault(pgdp, &pgd, pgd_t, fault); queue_pte_barriers(); + return; + +fault: + try_set_readonly_ptval(&pgd_val(*pgdp), pgd_val(pgd)); } static inline void pgd_clear(pgd_t *pgdp)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 9c1aa838e9d5..b97e4bf99ca5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c@@ -63,34 +63,34 @@ static bool rodata_is_rw __ro_after_init = true; */ long __section(".mmuoff.data.write") __early_cpu_boot_status; -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(swapper_pgdir_lock); static DEFINE_MUTEX(fixmap_lock); -void noinstr set_swapper_pgd(pgd_t *pgdp, pgd_t pgd) +void noinstr try_set_readonly_ptval(ptval_t *ptvalp, ptval_t ptval) { - pgd_t *fixmap_pgdp; + static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock); + + BUG_ON(!in_swapper_pgdir(ptvalp)); /* * Don't bother with the fixmap if swapper_pg_dir is still mapped * writable in the kernel mapping. */ if (rodata_is_rw) { - WRITE_ONCE(*pgdp, pgd); + WRITE_ONCE(*ptvalp, ptval); dsb(ishst); isb(); return; } - spin_lock(&swapper_pgdir_lock); - fixmap_pgdp = pgd_set_fixmap(__pa_symbol(pgdp)); - WRITE_ONCE(*fixmap_pgdp, pgd); + guard(spinlock)(&lock); + ptvalp = (ptval_t *)set_fixmap_offset(FIX_PTVAL, __pa_symbol(ptvalp)); + WRITE_ONCE(*ptvalp, ptval); /* * We need dsb(ishst) here to ensure the page-table-walker sees * our new entry before set_p?d() returns. The fixmap's * flush_tlb_kernel_range() via clear_fixmap() does this for us. */ - pgd_clear_fixmap(); - spin_unlock(&swapper_pgdir_lock); + clear_fixmap(FIX_PTVAL); } pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
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