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From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org>, <wsd_upstream@mediatek.com>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] arm: replace vector mem type with read-only type
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:41:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1603784517.12492.2.camel@mtkswgap22> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201023101257.GZ1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk>

On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 11:12 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 05:14:37PM +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> > Since kernel no longer writes to the vector, try to replace
> > the vector mem type with read-only type and remove L_PTE_MT_VECTORS.
> > 
> > from Catalin in [1]:
> > "
> > > I don't think this matters since the kernel no longer writes to the
> > > vectors page at run-time but it needs cleaning up a bit (and testing in
> > > case I missed something). IOW, do we still need a dedicated mapping type
> > > for the vectors or we can simply use the read-only user page attributes?
> > "
> 
> Catalin is incorrect. If CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS is enabled, then the
> vectors page is definitely written to - it's a user interface, so
> it's not going to change:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS
>                         /*
>                          * User space must never try to access this
>                          * directly.  Expect your app to break
>                          * eventually if you do so.  The user helper
>                          * at 0xffff0fe0 must be used instead.  (see
>                          * entry-armv.S for details)
>                          */
>                         *((unsigned int *)0xffff0ff0) = val;
> #endif
> 

Thanks for the comment. 
We have to keep L_PTE_MT_VECTORS for KUSER_HELPERS.


Miles

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From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: wsd_upstream@mediatek.com,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] arm: replace vector mem type with read-only type
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:41:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1603784517.12492.2.camel@mtkswgap22> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201023101257.GZ1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk>

On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 11:12 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 05:14:37PM +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> > Since kernel no longer writes to the vector, try to replace
> > the vector mem type with read-only type and remove L_PTE_MT_VECTORS.
> > 
> > from Catalin in [1]:
> > "
> > > I don't think this matters since the kernel no longer writes to the
> > > vectors page at run-time but it needs cleaning up a bit (and testing in
> > > case I missed something). IOW, do we still need a dedicated mapping type
> > > for the vectors or we can simply use the read-only user page attributes?
> > "
> 
> Catalin is incorrect. If CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS is enabled, then the
> vectors page is definitely written to - it's a user interface, so
> it's not going to change:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS
>                         /*
>                          * User space must never try to access this
>                          * directly.  Expect your app to break
>                          * eventually if you do so.  The user helper
>                          * at 0xffff0fe0 must be used instead.  (see
>                          * entry-armv.S for details)
>                          */
>                         *((unsigned int *)0xffff0ff0) = val;
> #endif
> 

Thanks for the comment. 
We have to keep L_PTE_MT_VECTORS for KUSER_HELPERS.


Miles
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WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: wsd_upstream@mediatek.com,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] arm: replace vector mem type with read-only type
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:41:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1603784517.12492.2.camel@mtkswgap22> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201023101257.GZ1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk>

On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 11:12 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 05:14:37PM +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> > Since kernel no longer writes to the vector, try to replace
> > the vector mem type with read-only type and remove L_PTE_MT_VECTORS.
> > 
> > from Catalin in [1]:
> > "
> > > I don't think this matters since the kernel no longer writes to the
> > > vectors page at run-time but it needs cleaning up a bit (and testing in
> > > case I missed something). IOW, do we still need a dedicated mapping type
> > > for the vectors or we can simply use the read-only user page attributes?
> > "
> 
> Catalin is incorrect. If CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS is enabled, then the
> vectors page is definitely written to - it's a user interface, so
> it's not going to change:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS
>                         /*
>                          * User space must never try to access this
>                          * directly.  Expect your app to break
>                          * eventually if you do so.  The user helper
>                          * at 0xffff0fe0 must be used instead.  (see
>                          * entry-armv.S for details)
>                          */
>                         *((unsigned int *)0xffff0ff0) = val;
> #endif
> 

Thanks for the comment. 
We have to keep L_PTE_MT_VECTORS for KUSER_HELPERS.


Miles
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-27  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-23  9:14 [PATCH v2 0/4] arm: support get_user_pages_fast Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14 ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14 ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] arm: mm: use strict p[gum]d types Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14   ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14   ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] arm: mm: reordering memory type table Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14   ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14   ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23 10:16   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-23 10:16     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-23 10:16     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-27  8:03     ` Miles Chen
2020-10-27  8:03       ` Miles Chen
2020-10-27  8:03       ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] arm: mm: introduce L_PTE_SPECIAL Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14   ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14   ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23 10:08   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-23 10:08     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-23 10:08     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-27  7:45     ` Miles Chen
2020-10-27  7:45       ` Miles Chen
2020-10-27  7:45       ` Miles Chen
2020-10-27  9:11       ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-27  9:11         ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-27  9:11         ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-11-01 12:48         ` Miles Chen
2020-11-01 12:48           ` Miles Chen
2020-11-01 12:48           ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] arm: replace vector mem type with read-only type Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14   ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23  9:14   ` Miles Chen
2020-10-23 10:12   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-23 10:12     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-23 10:12     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-27  7:41     ` Miles Chen [this message]
2020-10-27  7:41       ` Miles Chen
2020-10-27  7:41       ` Miles Chen

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