From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at,
Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at>,
michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at,
richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/30] x86, kaiser: map GDT into user page tables
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:42:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <62d71c5c-515e-c3be-e8f0-4f640251d20c@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXk=qk=aeaXT+bZWoA2teEtavNnFNTE+o9kh7_As9bmpQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/21/2017 03:32 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> To do this, we need to special-case the kernel page table walker to deal
>> with PTEs only since we can't just grab PMD or PUD flags and stick them
>> in a PTE. We would only be able to use this path when populating things
>> that we know are 4k-mapped in the kernel.
> I'm not sure I'm understanding the issue. We'd promise to map the
> cpu_entry_area without using large pages, but I'm not sure I know what
> you're referring to. The only issue I see is that we'd have to be
> quite careful when tearing down the user tables to avoid freeing the
> shared part.
It's just that it currently handles large and small pages in the kernel
mapping that it's copying. If we want to have it just copy the PTE,
we've got to refactor things a bit to separate out the PTE flags from
the paddr being targeted, and also make sure we don't munge the flags
conversion from the large-page entries to 4k PTEs. The PAT and PSE bits
cause a bit of trouble here.
IOW, it would make the call-sites look cleaner, but it largely just
shifts the complexity elsewhere. But, either way, it's all contained to
kaiser.c
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Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-10 19:30 [PATCH 00/30] [v3] KAISER: unmap most of the kernel from userspace page tables Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 01/30] x86, mm: do not set _PAGE_USER for init_mm " Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 02/30] x86, tlb: Make CR4-based TLB flushes more robust Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 03/30] x86/mm: Document X86_CR4_PGE toggling behavior Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 04/30] x86, kaiser: disable global pages by default with KAISER Dave Hansen
2017-11-14 19:38 ` Rik van Riel
2017-11-26 14:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 11:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 13:20 ` [PATCH v2] x86/mm/kaiser: Disable " Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 13:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 13:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 05/30] x86, kaiser: prepare assembly for entry/exit CR3 switching Dave Hansen
2017-11-20 12:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 06/30] x86, kaiser: introduce user-mapped per-cpu areas Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 07/30] x86, kaiser: mark per-cpu data structures required for entry/exit Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 08/30] x86, kaiser: unmap kernel from userspace page tables (core patch) Dave Hansen
2017-11-20 17:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-22 22:45 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-22 22:50 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-22 22:54 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-22 23:11 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 09/30] x86, kaiser: only populate shadow page tables for userspace Dave Hansen
2017-11-20 20:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-21 7:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-21 22:09 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-22 3:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-22 23:30 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 10/30] x86, kaiser: allow NX poison to be set in p4d/pgd Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 11/30] x86, kaiser: make sure static PGDs are 8k in size Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 12/30] x86, kaiser: map GDT into user page tables Dave Hansen
2017-11-20 20:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-20 20:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-20 20:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-21 21:19 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-21 22:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-21 23:17 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-21 23:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-21 23:42 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2017-11-22 0:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-22 0:37 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-21 22:12 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 13/30] x86, kaiser: map dynamically-allocated LDTs Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 14/30] x86, kaiser: map espfix structures Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 15/30] x86, kaiser: map entry stack variables Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 16/30] x86, kaiser: map trace interrupt entry Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 17/30] x86, kaiser: map debug IDT tables Dave Hansen
2017-11-20 20:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-21 22:16 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-20 20:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-20 20:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 18/30] x86, kaiser: map virtually-addressed performance monitoring buffers Dave Hansen
2017-11-14 18:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-14 18:28 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-14 19:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2017-11-14 19:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-15 9:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 19/30] x86, mm: Move CR3 construction functions Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 20/30] x86, mm: remove hard-coded ASID limit checks Dave Hansen
2017-11-20 20:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 21/30] x86, mm: put mmu-to-h/w ASID translation in one place Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 22:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-10 22:09 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 22:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 22/30] x86, pcid, kaiser: allow flushing for future ASID switches Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 23/30] x86, kaiser: use PCID feature to make user and kernel switches faster Dave Hansen
2017-11-16 19:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2017-11-16 19:25 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 24/30] x86, kaiser: disable native VSYSCALL Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 25/30] x86, kaiser: add debugfs file to turn KAISER on/off at runtime Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 26/30] x86, kaiser: add a function to check for KAISER being enabled Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 27/30] x86, kaiser: un-poison PGDs at runtime Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:31 ` [PATCH 28/30] x86, kaiser: allow KAISER to be enabled/disabled " Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:32 ` [PATCH 29/30] x86, kaiser: add Kconfig Dave Hansen
2017-11-10 19:32 ` [PATCH 30/30] x86, kaiser, xen: Dynamically disable KAISER when running under Xen PV Dave Hansen
2017-11-20 16:02 ` [PATCH 00/30] [v3] KAISER: unmap most of the kernel from userspace page tables Juerg Haefliger
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2017-11-08 19:46 [PATCH 00/30] [v2] " Dave Hansen
2017-11-08 19:47 ` [PATCH 12/30] x86, kaiser: map GDT into user " Dave Hansen
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