Pull x86 mm tree changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change is full PAT support from Jürgen Gross:
The x86 architecture offers via the PAT (Page Attribute Table) a
way to specify different caching modes in page table entries. The
PAT MSR contains 8 entries each specifying one of 6 possible cache
modes. A pte references one of those entries via 3 bits:
_PAGE_PAT, _PAGE_PWT and _PAGE_PCD.
The Linux kernel currently supports only 4 different cache modes.
The PAT MSR is set up in a way that the setting of _PAGE_PAT in a
pte doesn't matter: the top 4 entries in the PAT MSR are the same
as the 4 lower entries.
This results in the kernel not supporting e.g. write-through mode.
Especially this cache mode would speed up drivers of video cards
which now have to use uncached accesses.
OTOH some old processors (Pentium) don't support PAT correctly and
the Xen hypervisor has been using a different PAT MSR configuration
for some time now and can't change that as this setting is part of
the ABI.
This patch set abstracts the cache mode from the pte and introduces
tables to translate between cache mode and pte bits (the default
cache mode "write back" is hard-wired to PAT entry 0). The tables
are statically initialized with values being compatible to old
processors and current usage. As soon as the PAT MSR is changed
(or - in case of Xen - is read at boot time) the tables are changed
accordingly. Requests of mappings with special cache modes are
always possible now, in case they are not supported there will be a
fallback to a compatible but slower mode.
Summing it up, this patch set adds the following features:
- capability to support WT and WP cache modes on processors with
full PAT support
- processors with no or uncorrect PAT support are still working as
today, even if WT or WP cache mode are selected by drivers for
some pages
- reduction of Xen special handling regarding cache mode
Another change is a boot speedup on ridiculously large RAM systems,
plus other smaller fixes"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
x86: mm: Move PAT only functions to mm/pat.c
xen: Support Xen pv-domains using PAT
x86: Enable PAT to use cache mode translation tables
x86: Respect PAT bit when copying pte values between large and normal pages
x86: Support PAT bit in pagetable dump for lower levels
x86: Clean up pgtable_types.h
x86: Use new cache mode type in memtype related functions
x86: Use new cache mode type in mm/ioremap.c
x86: Use new cache mode type in setting page attributes
x86: Remove looking for setting of _PAGE_PAT_LARGE in pageattr.c
x86: Use new cache mode type in track_pfn_remap() and track_pfn_insert()
x86: Use new cache mode type in mm/iomap_32.c
x86: Use new cache mode type in asm/pgtable.h
x86: Use new cache mode type in arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
x86: Use new cache mode type in arch/x86/pci
x86: Use new cache mode type in drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion
x86: Use new cache mode type in drivers/video/fbdev/gbefb.c
x86: Use new cache mode type in include/asm/fb.h
x86: Make page cache mode a real type
x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on large-memory x86-64 systems
...
In commit 3891a04aaf ("x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp
returning..") the "ESPFix Area" was added to the page table dump special
sections. That area, though, has a limited amount of entries printed.
The EFI runtime services are, unfortunately, located in-between the
espfix area and the high kernel memory mapping. Due to the enforced
limitation for the espfix area, the EFI mappings won't be printed in the
page table dump.
To make the ESP runtime service mappings visible again, provide them a
dedicated entry.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
We should classify the espfix area as such only if we actually have
enabled the corresponding option. Otherwise the page table dump might
look confusing.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410114629-24523-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer. This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space. We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.
In checkin:
b3b42ac2cb x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels
we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.
This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart. When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace. The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.
(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)
Special thanks to:
- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.
Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski <amluto@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Cc: comex <comexk@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # consider after upstream merge
With reusing the ->trampoline_pgd page table for mapping EFI regions in
order to use them after having switched to EFI virtual mode, it is very
useful to be able to dump aforementioned page table in dmesg. This adds
that functionality through the walk_pgd_level() interface which can be
called from somewhere else.
The original functionality of dumping to debugfs remains untouched.
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Without this, adding entries into the address_markers array means adding
more and more of an #ifdef maze in pt_dump_init(). By using indices, we
can keep it a bit saner.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
LKML-Reference: <201007202219.o6KMJkUs021052@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Impact: cleanup
%p prints out 0x000000000000000 as (null)
so use %lx instead.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E43282.1090607@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
PTE_PFN_MASK was getting lonely, so I made it a friend.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rusty, in his peevish way, complained that macros defining constants
should have a name which somewhat accurately reflects the actual
purpose of the constant.
Aside from the fact that PTE_MASK gives no clue as to what's actually
being masked, and is misleadingly similar to the functionally entirely
different PMD_MASK, PUD_MASK and PGD_MASK, I don't really see what the
problem is.
But if this patch silences the incessent noise, then it will have
achieved its goal (TODO: write test-case).
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use PAGE_OFFSET macro instead of using 0xffff810000000000UL directly.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
otherwise Vmemmap and High Kernel Mapping string is not showing up.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clean up the page table dumper (fix boundary conditions, table driven
address ranges, some formatting changes since it is no longer using
the kernel log but a separate virtual file), and generalize to 32
bits.
[ mingo@elte.hu: x86: fix the pagetable dumper ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch adds code to the kernel to have an (optional)
/proc/kernel_page_tables debug file that basically dumps the kernel
pagetables; this allows us kernel developers to verify that nothing fishy is
going on and that the various mappings are set up correctly. This was quite
useful in finding various change_page_attr() bugs, and is very likely to be
useful in the future as well.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: tglx@tglx.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Linus Torvalds