kernel/linux.git/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h, branch v6.19.12

parisc: Increase initial mapping to 64 MB with KALLSYMS

2026-03-19T15:15:19+00:00

commit 8e732934fb81282be41602550e7e07baf265e972 upstream. The 32MB initial kernel mapping can become too small when CONFIG_KALLSYMS is used. Increase the mapping to 64 MB in this case. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Cc: # v6.0+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

parisc: Define and use set_pte_at()

2025-07-25T20:45:23+00:00

When a PTE is changed, we need to flush the PTE. set_pte_at() was lost in the folio update. PA-RISC version is the same as the generic version. Signed-off-by: John David Anglin Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.12+

mm: pgtable: fix pte_swp_exclusive

2025-06-11T21:52:08+00:00

Make pte_swp_exclusive return bool instead of int. This will better reflect how pte_swp_exclusive is actually used in the code. This fixes swap/swapoff problems on Alpha due pte_swp_exclusive not returning correct values when _PAGE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE bit resides in upper 32-bits of PTE (like on alpha). Suggested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Sam James Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250218175735.19882-2-linmag7@gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250602041118.GA2675383@ZenIV/ [ Applied as the 'sed' script Al suggested - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'parisc-for-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux

2025-06-01T15:55:28+00:00

Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller: "Fix building with gcc-15, formatting fix on unaligned warnings and replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in headers" * tag 'parisc-for-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux: parisc/unaligned: Fix hex output to show 8 hex chars parisc: fix building with gcc-15 parisc: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-uapi headers parisc: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in uapi headers

mm: introduce a common definition of mk_pte()

2025-05-12T00:48:02+00:00

Most architectures simply call pfn_pte(). Centralise that as the normal definition and remove the definition of mk_pte() from the architectures which have either that exact definition or something similar. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402181709.2386022-3-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven # m68k Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev # s390 Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

parisc: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in non-uapi headers

2025-05-04T18:46:27+00:00

While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__ automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel. This can be very confusing when switching between userspace and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now. This is mostly a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement), except for some manual tweaks in the files arch/parisc/include/asm/smp.h, arch/parisc/include/asm/signal.h, arch/parisc/include/asm/thread_info.h and arch/parisc/include/asm/vdso.h that had the macro spelled in a wrong way. Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Helge Deller Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: Try to fix random segmentation faults in package builds

2024-06-11T23:57:05+00:00

PA-RISC systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have had problems with random segmentation faults for many years. Systems with earlier processors are much more stable. Systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have a large L2 cache which needs per page flushing for decent performance when a large range is flushed. The combined cache in these systems is also more sensitive to non-equivalent aliases than the caches in earlier systems. The majority of random segmentation faults that I have looked at appear to be memory corruption in memory allocated using mmap and malloc. My first attempt at fixing the random faults didn't work. On reviewing the cache code, I realized that there were two issues which the existing code didn't handle correctly. Both relate to cache move-in. Another issue is that the present bit in PTEs is racy. 1) PA-RISC caches have a mind of their own and they can speculatively load data and instructions for a page as long as there is a entry in the TLB for the page which allows move-in. TLBs are local to each CPU. Thus, the TLB entry for a page must be purged before flushing the page. This is particularly important on SMP systems. In some of the flush routines, the flush routine would be called and then the TLB entry would be purged. This was because the flush routine needed the TLB entry to do the flush. 2) My initial approach to trying the fix the random faults was to try and use flush_cache_page_if_present for all flush operations. This actually made things worse and led to a couple of hardware lockups. It finally dawned on me that some lines weren't being flushed because the pte check code was racy. This resulted in random inequivalent mappings to physical pages. The __flush_cache_page tmpalias flush sets up its own TLB entry and it doesn't need the existing TLB entry. As long as we can find the pte pointer for the vm page, we can get the pfn and physical address of the page. We can also purge the TLB entry for the page before doing the flush. Further, __flush_cache_page uses a special TLB entry that inhibits cache move-in. When switching page mappings, we need to ensure that lines are removed from the cache. It is not sufficient to just flush the lines to memory as they may come back. This made it clear that we needed to implement all the required flush operations using tmpalias routines. This includes flushes for user and kernel pages. After modifying the code to use tmpalias flushes, it became clear that the random segmentation faults were not fully resolved. The frequency of faults was worse on systems with a 64 MB L2 (PA8900) and systems with more CPUs (rp4440). The warning that I added to flush_cache_page_if_present to detect pages that couldn't be flushed triggered frequently on some systems. Helge and I looked at the pages that couldn't be flushed and found that the PTE was either cleared or for a swap page. Ignoring pages that were swapped out seemed okay but pages with cleared PTEs seemed problematic. I looked at routines related to pte_clear and noticed ptep_clear_flush. The default implementation just flushes the TLB entry. However, it was obvious that on parisc we need to flush the cache page as well. If we don't flush the cache page, stale lines will be left in the cache and cause random corruption. Once a PTE is cleared, there is no way to find the physical address associated with the PTE and flush the associated page at a later time. I implemented an updated change with a parisc specific version of ptep_clear_flush. It fixed the random data corruption on Helge's rp4440 and rp3440, as well as on my c8000. At this point, I realized that I could restore the code where we only flush in flush_cache_page_if_present if the page has been accessed. However, for this, we also need to flush the cache when the accessed bit is cleared in ptep_clear_flush_young to keep things synchronized. The default implementation only flushes the TLB entry. Other changes in this version are: 1) Implement parisc specific version of ptep_get. It's identical to default but needed in arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h. 2) Revise parisc implementation of ptep_test_and_clear_young to use ptep_get (READ_ONCE). 3) Drop parisc implementation of ptep_get_and_clear. We can use default. 4) Revise flush_kernel_vmap_range and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range to use full data cache flush. 5) Move flush_cache_vmap and flush_cache_vunmap to cache.c. Handle VM_IOREMAP case in flush_cache_vmap. At this time, I don't know whether it is better to always flush when the PTE present bit is set or when both the accessed and present bits are set. The later saves flushing pages that haven't been accessed, but we need to flush in ptep_clear_flush_young. It also needs a page table lookup to find the PTE pointer. The lpa instruction only needs a page table lookup when the PTE entry isn't in the TLB. We don't atomically handle setting and clearing the _PAGE_ACCESSED bit. If we miss an update, we may miss a flush and the cache may get corrupted. Whether the current code is effectively atomic depends on process control. When CONFIG_FLUSH_PAGE_ACCESSED is set to zero, the page will eventually be flushed when the PTE is cleared or in flush_cache_page_if_present. The _PAGE_ACCESSED bit is not used, so the problem is avoided. The flush method can be selected using the CONFIG_FLUSH_PAGE_ACCESSED define in cache.c. The default is 0. I didn't see a large difference in performance. Signed-off-by: John David Anglin Cc: # v6.6+ Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

Merge tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2023-08-31T19:20:12+00:00

Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen: "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET). CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack part of this feature, and just for userspace. The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction, the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy. For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier versions of this patch set" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/ * tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits) x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support ...

parisc: implement the new page table range API

2023-08-24T23:20:22+00:00

Add set_ptes(), update_mmu_cache_range(), flush_dcache_folio() and flush_icache_pages(). Change the PG_arch_1 (aka PG_dcache_dirty) flag from being per-page to per-folio. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-21-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: Rename arch pte_mkwrite()'s to pte_mkwrite_novma()

2023-07-11T21:10:56+00:00

The x86 Shadow stack feature includes a new type of memory called shadow stack. This shadow stack memory has some unusual properties, which requires some core mm changes to function properly. One of these unusual properties is that shadow stack memory is writable, but only in limited ways. These limits are applied via a specific PTE bit combination. Nevertheless, the memory is writable, and core mm code will need to apply the writable permissions in the typical paths that call pte_mkwrite(). The goal is to make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA, so that the x86 implementation of it can know whether to create regular writable or shadow stack mappings. But there are a couple of challenges to this. Modifying the signatures of each arch pte_mkwrite() implementation would be error prone because some are generated with macros and would need to be re-implemented. Also, some pte_mkwrite() callers operate on kernel memory without a VMA. So this can be done in a three step process. First pte_mkwrite() can be renamed to pte_mkwrite_novma() in each arch, with a generic pte_mkwrite() added that just calls pte_mkwrite_novma(). Next callers without a VMA can be moved to pte_mkwrite_novma(). And lastly, pte_mkwrite() and all callers can be changed to take/pass a VMA. Start the process by renaming pte_mkwrite() to pte_mkwrite_novma() and adding the pte_mkwrite() wrapper in linux/pgtable.h. Apply the same pattern for pmd_mkwrite(). Since not all archs have a pmd_mkwrite_novma(), create a new arch config HAS_HUGE_PAGE that can be used to tell if pmd_mkwrite() should be defined. Otherwise in the !HAS_HUGE_PAGE cases the compiler would not be able to find pmd_mkwrite_novma(). No functional change. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiZjSu7c9sFYZb3q04108stgHff2wfbokGCCgW7riz+8Q@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-2-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com