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arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region
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Commit dd006da ("arm64: mm: increase VA range of identity map") made
some changes to the memory mapping code to allow physical memory to reside
at an offset that exceeds the size of the virtual mapping.

However, since the size of the vmemmap area is proportional to the size of
the VA area, but it is populated relative to the physical space, we may
end up with the struct page array being mapped outside of the vmemmap
region. For instance, on my Seattle A0 box, I can see the following output
in the dmesg log.

   vmemmap : 0xffffffbdc0000000 - 0xffffffbfc0000000   (     8 GB maximum)
             0xffffffbfc0000000 - 0xffffffbfd0000000   (   256 MB actual)

We can fix this by deciding that the vmemmap region is not a projection of
the physical space, but of the virtual space above PAGE_OFFSET, i.e., the
linear region. This way, we are guaranteed that the vmemmap region is of
sufficient size, and we can even reduce the size by half.

Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored and wildea01 committed Feb 26, 2016
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7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
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/*
* VMALLOC and SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP ranges.
*
* VMEMAP_SIZE: allows the whole VA space to be covered by a struct page array
* VMEMAP_SIZE: allows the whole linear region to be covered by a struct page array
* (rounded up to PUD_SIZE).
* VMALLOC_START: beginning of the kernel VA space
* VMALLOC_END: extends to the available space below vmmemmap, PCI I/O space,
* fixed mappings and modules
*/
#define VMEMMAP_SIZE ALIGN((1UL << (VA_BITS - PAGE_SHIFT)) * sizeof(struct page), PUD_SIZE)
#define VMEMMAP_SIZE ALIGN((1UL << (VA_BITS - PAGE_SHIFT - 1)) * sizeof(struct page), PUD_SIZE)

#ifndef CONFIG_KASAN
#define VMALLOC_START (VA_START)
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#define VMALLOC_END (PAGE_OFFSET - PUD_SIZE - VMEMMAP_SIZE - SZ_64K)

#define vmemmap ((struct page *)(VMALLOC_END + SZ_64K))
#define VMEMMAP_START (VMALLOC_END + SZ_64K)
#define vmemmap ((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - (memstart_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT))

#define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS 0UL

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions arch/arm64/mm/init.c
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#endif
MLG(VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END),
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
MLG((unsigned long)vmemmap,
(unsigned long)vmemmap + VMEMMAP_SIZE),
MLG(VMEMMAP_START,
VMEMMAP_START + VMEMMAP_SIZE),
MLM((unsigned long)virt_to_page(PAGE_OFFSET),
(unsigned long)virt_to_page(high_memory)),
#endif
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