From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA4EC56202 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:05:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477C1223FD for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:05:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="n6pQeRtZ" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 477C1223FD Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 8EBBD6B0062; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 05:05:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 85F9C6B0068; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 05:05:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 6FFF66B006C; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 05:05:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0018.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.18]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427B06B0062 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 05:05:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin28.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71B5824999B for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:05:45 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 77413493850.28.pie19_630453f27272 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (10.5.16.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.16.251]) by smtpin28.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6FF6D80 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:05:45 +0000 (UTC) X-HE-Tag: pie19_630453f27272 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 4235 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by imf39.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kernel.org (unknown [87.70.96.83]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4F28122242; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:05:31 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1603703144; bh=qV1j3o8b5aO+jtdBDoJyX5701vJJcUPPuK5bWgUroMs=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=n6pQeRtZ1dQZQwNLzcRvocBVxWOThQ2A3ohdsbB1ku0q9Z1z2DOVNvIaiR/xbrSRK 5zQtm2aEbLsKv3mU1aC9GYppS4t99gNCuK2wQoR74ofGRKXtqAOsYTKvXA+WFU2Lid njOARSpftIz0V7Pd9Gh+IjN51p6qFKYl2MBmmm2s= Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:05:26 +0200 From: Mike Rapoport To: "Edgecombe, Rick P" Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "david@redhat.com" , "cl@linux.com" , "gor@linux.ibm.com" , "hpa@zytor.com" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "catalin.marinas@arm.com" , "dave.hansen@linux.intel.com" , "borntraeger@de.ibm.com" , "will@kernel.org" , "penberg@kernel.org" , "iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com" , "aou@eecs.berkeley.edu" , "kirill@shutemov.name" , "rientjes@google.com" , "rppt@linux.ibm.com" , "paulus@samba.org" , "hca@linux.ibm.com" , "pavel@ucw.cz" , "bp@alien8.de" , "sparclinux@vger.kernel.org" , "mpe@ellerman.id.au" , "luto@kernel.org" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "rjw@rjwysocki.net" , "linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org" , "benh@kernel.crashing.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "palmer@dabbelt.com" , "Brown, Len" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "linux-s390@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "paul.walmsley@sifive.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] arch, mm: improve robustness of direct map manipulation Message-ID: <20201026090526.GA1154158@kernel.org> References: <20201025101555.3057-1-rppt@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 01:13:52AM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote: > On Sun, 2020-10-25 at 12:15 +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > Indeed, for architectures that define CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP > > it is > > possible that __kernel_map_pages() would fail, but since this > > function is > > void, the failure will go unnoticed. > > Could you elaborate on how this could happen? Do you mean during > runtime today or if something new was introduced? A failure in__kernel_map_pages() may happen today. For instance, on x86 if the kernel is built with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. __kernel_map_pages(page, 1, 0); will need to split, say, 2M page and during the split an allocation of page table could fail. Currently, the only user of __kernel_map_pages() outside DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is hibernation, but I think it would be safer to entirely prevent usage of __kernel_map_pages() when DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=n. -- Sincerely yours, Mike.