From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCHv2 29/29] mm, x86: introduce RLIMIT_VADDR
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 21:53:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3a168403-26f7-ac8d-3086-848178be6005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161227022405.GA8780@node.shutemov.name>
On 12/26/2016 09:24 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 06:06:01PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov
>> <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> This patch introduces new rlimit resource to manage maximum virtual
>>> address available to userspace to map.
>>>
>>> On x86, 5-level paging enables 56-bit userspace virtual address space.
>>> Not all user space is ready to handle wide addresses. It's known that
>>> at least some JIT compilers use high bit in pointers to encode their
>>> information. It collides with valid pointers with 5-level paging and
>>> leads to crashes.
>>>
>>> The patch aims to address this compatibility issue.
>>>
>>> MM would use min(RLIMIT_VADDR, TASK_SIZE) as upper limit of virtual
>>> address available to map by userspace.
>>>
>>> The default hard limit will be RLIM_INFINITY, which basically means that
>>> TASK_SIZE limits available address space.
>>>
>>> The soft limit will also be RLIM_INFINITY everywhere, but the machine
>>> with 5-level paging enabled. In this case, soft limit would be
>>> (1UL << 47) - PAGE_SIZE. It’s current x86-64 TASK_SIZE_MAX with 4-level
>>> paging which known to be safe
>>>
>>> New rlimit resource would follow usual semantics with regards to
>>> inheritance: preserved on fork(2) and exec(2). This has potential to
>>> break application if limits set too wide or too narrow, but this is not
>>> uncommon for other resources (consider RLIMIT_DATA or RLIMIT_AS).
>>>
>>> As with other resources you can set the limit lower than current usage.
>>> It would affect only future virtual address space allocations.
>>>
>>> Use-cases for new rlimit:
>>>
>>> - Bumping the soft limit to RLIM_INFINITY, allows current process all
>>> its children to use addresses above 47-bits.
>>>
>>> - Bumping the soft limit to RLIM_INFINITY after fork(2), but before
>>> exec(2) allows the child to use addresses above 47-bits.
>>>
>>> - Lowering the hard limit to 47-bits would prevent current process all
>>> its children to use addresses above 47-bits, unless a process has
>>> CAP_SYS_RESOURCES.
>>>
>>> - It’s also can be handy to lower hard or soft limit to arbitrary
>>> address. User-mode emulation in QEMU may lower the limit to 32-bit
>>> to emulate 32-bit machine on 64-bit host.
>>
>> I tend to think that this should be a personality or an ELF flag, not
>> an rlimit.
>
> My plan was to implement ELF flag on top. Basically, ELF flag would mean
> that we bump soft limit to hard limit on exec.
Could you clarify what you mean by an "ELF flag?"
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-29 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-27 1:53 [PATCHv2 00/29] 5-level paging Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 01/29] x86/cpufeature: Add 5-level paging detecton Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 02/29] asm-generic: introduce 5level-fixup.h Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-01-27 11:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-27 11:30 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 03/29] asm-generic: introduce __ARCH_USE_5LEVEL_HACK Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-01-27 13:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-27 13:55 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 04/29] arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 05/29] asm-generic: introduce <asm-generic/pgtable-nop4d.h> Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 06/29] mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 07/29] mm: introduce __p4d_alloc() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 08/29] x86: basic changes into headers for 5-level paging Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 09/29] x86: trivial portion of 5-level paging conversion Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 10/29] x86/gup: add 5-level paging support Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 11/29] x86/ident_map: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 12/29] x86/mm: add support of p4d_t in vmalloc_fault() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 13/29] x86/power: support p4d_t in hibernate code Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 14/29] x86/kexec: support p4d_t Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:53 ` [PATCHv2 15/29] x86: convert the rest of the code to " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 16/29] x86: detect 5-level paging support Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 17/29] x86/asm: remove __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT==47 assert Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 18/29] x86/mm: define virtual memory map for 5-level paging Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 19/29] x86/paravirt: make paravirt code support " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 20/29] x86/mm: basic defines/helpers for CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 21/29] x86/dump_pagetables: support 5-level paging Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 22/29] x86/mm: extend kasan to " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 23/29] x86/espfix: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 24/29] x86/mm: add support of additional page table level during early boot Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 25/29] x86/mm: add sync_global_pgds() for configuration with 5-level paging Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 26/29] x86/mm: make kernel_physical_mapping_init() support " Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 27/29] x86/mm: add support for 5-level paging for KASLR Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [PATCHv2 28/29] x86: enable 5-level paging support Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 1:54 ` [RFC, PATCHv2 29/29] mm, x86: introduce RLIMIT_VADDR Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 2:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-27 2:24 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 3:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-02 9:09 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-29 2:53 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2016-12-31 2:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-02 8:35 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-01-13 20:11 ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-02 8:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-01-03 6:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-03 13:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-01-03 18:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-03 22:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-01-03 22:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-04 13:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-01-03 16:04 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-01-03 18:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-04 14:19 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-01-05 17:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-05 19:13 ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-05 19:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-01-05 19:39 ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-05 20:11 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-01-05 20:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-05 20:49 ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-05 21:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-05 23:17 ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-11 14:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-01-11 18:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-11 18:37 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-01-11 18:49 ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-11 19:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-11 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-11 21:46 ` Andi Kleen
2017-01-11 19:32 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-01-11 19:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-11 18:26 ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-05 16:57 ` [PATCHv2 00/29] 5-level paging Kirill A. Shutemov
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