From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754266AbbL3ENb (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:13:31 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:56522 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754176AbbL3EMo (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:12:44 -0500 From: Andy Lutomirski To: x86@kernel.org, Borislav Petkov , Kees Cook Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov , Andy Lutomirski , Andy Lutomirski Subject: [PATCH v3 2/7] mm: Add a vm_special_mapping .fault method Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:12:19 -0800 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.0 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andy Lutomirski Requiring special mappings to give a list of struct pages is inflexible: it prevents sane use of IO memory in a special mapping, it's inefficient (it requires arch code to initialize a list of struct pages, and it requires the mm core to walk the entire list just to figure out how long it is), and it prevents arch code from doing anything fancy when a special mapping fault occurs. Add a .fault method as an alternative to filling in a .pages array. Looks-OK-to: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- mm/mmap.c | 13 +++++++++---- 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index f8d1492a114f..c88e48a3c155 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -568,10 +568,26 @@ static inline void clear_tlb_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm) } #endif -struct vm_special_mapping -{ - const char *name; +struct vm_fault; + +struct vm_special_mapping { + const char *name; /* The name, e.g. "[vdso]". */ + + /* + * If .fault is not provided, this points to a + * NULL-terminated array of pages that back the special mapping. + * + * This must not be NULL unless .fault is provided. + */ struct page **pages; + + /* + * If non-NULL, then this is called to resolve page faults + * on the special mapping. If used, .pages is not checked. + */ + int (*fault)(const struct vm_special_mapping *sm, + struct vm_area_struct *vma, + struct vm_fault *vmf); }; enum tlb_flush_reason { diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 2ce04a649f6b..f717453b1a57 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -3030,11 +3030,16 @@ static int special_mapping_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgoff_t pgoff; struct page **pages; - if (vma->vm_ops == &legacy_special_mapping_vmops) + if (vma->vm_ops == &legacy_special_mapping_vmops) { pages = vma->vm_private_data; - else - pages = ((struct vm_special_mapping *)vma->vm_private_data)-> - pages; + } else { + struct vm_special_mapping *sm = vma->vm_private_data; + + if (sm->fault) + return sm->fault(sm, vma, vmf); + + pages = sm->pages; + } for (pgoff = vmf->pgoff; pgoff && *pages; ++pages) pgoff--; -- 2.5.0