[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 4/9] ARM: 9266/1: mm: fix no-MMU ZERO_PAGE() implementation

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Nov 28 2022 - 12:53:18 EST


From: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 340a982825f76f1cff0daa605970fe47321b5ee7 ]

Actually in no-MMU SoCs(i.e. i.MXRT) ZERO_PAGE(vaddr) expands to
```
virt_to_page(0)
```
that in order expands to:
```
pfn_to_page(virt_to_pfn(0))
```
and then virt_to_pfn(0) to:
```
((((unsigned long)(0) - PAGE_OFFSET) >> PAGE_SHIFT) +
PHYS_PFN_OFFSET)
```
where PAGE_OFFSET and PHYS_PFN_OFFSET are the DRAM offset(0x80000000) and
PAGE_SHIFT is 12. This way we obtain 16MB(0x01000000) summed to the base of
DRAM(0x80000000).
When ZERO_PAGE(0) is then used, for example in bio_add_page(), the page
gets an address that is out of DRAM bounds.
So instead of using fake virtual page 0 let's allocate a dedicated
zero_page during paging_init() and assign it to a global 'struct page *
empty_zero_page' the same way mmu.c does and it's the same approach used
in m68k with commit dc068f462179 as discussed here[0]. Then let's move
ZERO_PAGE() definition to the top of pgtable.h to be in common between
mmu.c and nommu.c.

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-m68k/2a462b23-5b8e-bbf4-ec7d-778434a3b9d7@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#m1266ceb63
ad140743174d6b3070364d3c9a5179b

Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-nommu.h | 6 ------
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h | 16 +++++++++-------
arch/arm/mm/nommu.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-nommu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-nommu.h
index a0d726a47c8a..e7ca798513c1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-nommu.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-nommu.h
@@ -54,12 +54,6 @@

typedef pte_t *pte_addr_t;

-/*
- * ZERO_PAGE is a global shared page that is always zero: used
- * for zero-mapped memory areas etc..
- */
-#define ZERO_PAGE(vaddr) (virt_to_page(0))
-
/*
* Mark the prot value as uncacheable and unbufferable.
*/
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 1c462381c225..ce89af40651d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@
#include <linux/const.h>
#include <asm/proc-fns.h>

+#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
+/*
+ * ZERO_PAGE is a global shared page that is always zero: used
+ * for zero-mapped memory areas etc..
+ */
+extern struct page *empty_zero_page;
+#define ZERO_PAGE(vaddr) (empty_zero_page)
+#endif
+
#ifndef CONFIG_MMU

#include <asm-generic/4level-fixup.h>
@@ -166,13 +175,6 @@ extern pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
#define __S111 __PAGE_SHARED_EXEC

#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
-/*
- * ZERO_PAGE is a global shared page that is always zero: used
- * for zero-mapped memory areas etc..
- */
-extern struct page *empty_zero_page;
-#define ZERO_PAGE(vaddr) (empty_zero_page)
-

extern pgd_t swapper_pg_dir[PTRS_PER_PGD];

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/nommu.c b/arch/arm/mm/nommu.c
index 91537d90f5f5..d58dd8af2cf0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/nommu.c
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@

unsigned long vectors_base;

+/*
+ * empty_zero_page is a special page that is used for
+ * zero-initialized data and COW.
+ */
+struct page *empty_zero_page;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_MPU
struct mpu_rgn_info mpu_rgn_info;

@@ -366,9 +373,21 @@ void __init adjust_lowmem_bounds(void)
*/
void __init paging_init(const struct machine_desc *mdesc)
{
+ void *zero_page;
+
early_trap_init((void *)vectors_base);
mpu_setup();
+
+ /* allocate the zero page. */
+ zero_page = memblock_alloc(PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
+ if (!zero_page)
+ panic("%s: Failed to allocate %lu bytes align=0x%lx\n",
+ __func__, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
+
bootmem_init();
+
+ empty_zero_page = virt_to_page(zero_page);
+ flush_dcache_page(empty_zero_page);
}

/*
--
2.35.1