From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@microsoft.com>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, vbabka@suse.cz,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, willy@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Is _PAGE_PROTNONE set only for user mappings?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 11:37:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220512103748.GH3441@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YntHrTX12TGp35aF@hyeyoo>
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 02:20:45PM +0900, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> > pgprot_t vm_get_page_prot(unsigned long vm_flags)
> > {
> > pgprot_t ret = __pgprot(pgprot_val(protection_map[vm_flags &
> > (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED)]) |
> > pgprot_val(arch_vm_get_page_prot(vm_flags)));
> >
> > return arch_filter_pgprot(ret);
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_get_page_prot);
>
> I guess it's only set for processes' VMA if no caller is abusing
> vm_get_page_prot() for kernel mappings.
>
> But yeah, just quick guessing does not make us convinced.
> Let's Cc people working on mm.
>
> If kernel never uses _PAGE_PROTNONE for kernel mappings, it's just okay
> not to clear _PAGE_GLOBAL at first in __change_page_attr() if it's not user address,
> because no user will confuse _PAGE_GLOBAL as _PAGE_PROTNONE if it's kernel
> address. right?
>
I'm not aware of a case where _PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE is used for a kernel
address expecting PROT_NONE semantics instead of the global bit. NUMA
Balancing is not going to accidentally treat a kernel address as if it's
a NUMA hinting fault. By the time a fault is determining if a PTE access
is a numa hinting fault or accesssing a PROT_NONE region, it has been
established that it is a userspace address backed by a valid VMA.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-12 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-06 5:19 [PATCH] x86/mm/cpa: set PAGE_KERNEL in __set_pages_p() Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-05-09 16:06 ` Tom Lendacky
2022-05-10 11:57 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-05-10 13:35 ` Tom Lendacky
2022-05-10 14:39 ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-11 5:20 ` Is _PAGE_PROTNONE set only for user mappings? Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-05-12 10:37 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2022-05-13 5:33 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-05-16 13:03 ` Mel Gorman
2022-05-16 14:04 ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-22 3:56 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-05-24 20:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-05-26 10:33 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-05-29 10:32 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-06-02 16:47 ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-10 0:47 ` [PATCH] x86/mm/cpa: set PAGE_KERNEL in __set_pages_p() Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-05-10 11:50 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-05-10 15:38 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
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