Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2021-09-29

Re: [PATCH] mm/mmap: Define index macros for protection_map[]

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-09-28 04:43:17
Also in: linux-mm, lkml, sparclinux

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:24:43AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
quoted
simple switch statement provided by each architecture.  See the below
WIP which just works for x86 and without pagetable debugging for where I
think we should be going.
Sure, this will work as well but all platforms need to be changed at once.
Is there any platform that would not subscribe ARCH_HAS_GET_PAGE_PROT and
export its own vm_get_page_prot() ? AFAICS all platforms are required to
export __PXXX and __SXXX elements currently.

This seems to be a better idea than the current proposal. Probably all the
vm_flags combinations, which will be used in those switch statements can be
converted into macros just to improve readability. Are you planning to send
this as a proper patch soon ?
This was just a quіck WIP patch.  If you have some spare time to tackle
it for real I'd sugget the following approach:

 1) Remove the direct references to protection_map in debug_vm_pgtable.c
 2) add the ARCH_HAS_GET_PAGE_PROT symbol that lets architectures
    provide vm_get_page_prot itself and not define protection_map at all
    in this case
 3) convert all architectures that touch protection_map to provide
    vm_get_page_prot themselves
 4) mark protection_map static
 5) convert all architectures that provide arch_filter_pgprot and/or
    arch_vm_get_page_prot to provide vm_get_page_prot directly and
    remove those hooks
 6) remove the __S???/__P??? macros and the generic vm_get_page_prot
    after providing an arch implementation for every architecture.
    This can maybe simplified with a new generic version that directly
    looks at PAGE_* macros, but that will need further investigation
    first.
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help