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[Ryan Roberts]

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On 11/05/2023 13:58, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 11:38:28 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH v1 0/5] Encapsulate PTE contents from non-arch code
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> This series improves the encapsulation of pte entries by disallowing non-arch
> code from directly dereferencing pte_t pointers. Instead code must use a new
> helper, `pte_t ptep_deref(pte_t *ptep)`. By default, this helper does a direct
> dereference of the pointer, so generated code should be exactly the same. But
> it's presence sets us up for arch code being able to override the default to
> "virtualize" the ptes without needing to maintain a shadow table.
> 
> I intend to take advantage of this for arm64 to enable use of its "contiguous
> bit" to coalesce multiple ptes into a single tlb entry, reducing pressure and
> improving performance. I have an RFC for the first part of this work at [1]. The
> cover letter there also explains the second part, which this series is enabling.
> 
> I intend to post an RFC for the contpte changes in due course, but it would be
> good to get the ball rolling on this enabler.
> 
> There are 2 reasons that I need the encapsulation:
> 
>   - Prevent leaking the arch-private PTE_CONT bit to the core code. If the core
>     code reads a pte that contains this bit, it could end up calling
>     set_pte_at() with the bit set which would confuse the implementation. So we
>     can always clear PTE_CONT in ptep_deref() (and ptep_get()) to avoid a leaky
>     abstraction.
>   - Contiguous ptes have a single access and dirty bit for the contiguous range.
>     So we need to "mix-in" those bits when the core is dereferencing a pte that
>     lies in the contig range. There is code that dereferences the pte then takes
>     different actions based on access/dirty (see e.g. write_protect_page()).
> 
> While ptep_get() and ptep_get_lockless() already exist, both of them are
> implemented using READ_ONCE() by default. While we could use ptep_get() instead
> of the new ptep_deref(), I didn't want to risk performance regression.
> Alternatively, all call sites that currently use ptep_get() that need the
> lockless behaviour could be upgraded to ptep_get_lockless() and ptep_get() could
> be downgraded to a simple dereference. That would be cleanest, but is a much
> bigger (and likely error prone) change because all the arch code would need to
> be updated for the new definitions of ptep_get().
> 
> The series is split up as follows:
> 
> patchs 1-2: Fix bugs where code was _setting_ ptes directly, rather than using
>             set_pte_at() and friends.
> patch 3:    Fix highmem unmapping issue I spotted while doing the work.
> patch 4:    Introduce the new ptep_deref() helper with default implementation.
> patch 5:    Convert all direct dereferences to use ptep_deref().
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230414130303.2345383-1-ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx/
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan
> 
> 
> Ryan Roberts (5):
>   mm: vmalloc must set pte via arch code
>   mm: damon must atomically clear young on ptes and pmds
>   mm: Fix failure to unmap pte on highmem systems
>   mm: Add new ptep_deref() helper to fully encapsulate pte_t
>   mm: ptep_deref() conversion
> 
>  .../drm/i915/gem/selftests/i915_gem_mman.c    |   8 +-
>  drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c               |   2 +-
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c               |   7 +-
>  drivers/xen/privcmd.c                         |   2 +-
>  fs/proc/task_mmu.c                            |  33 +++---
>  fs/userfaultfd.c                              |   6 +-
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h                       |   2 +-
>  include/linux/mm_inline.h                     |   2 +-
>  include/linux/pgtable.h                       |  13 ++-
>  kernel/events/uprobes.c                       |   2 +-
>  mm/damon/ops-common.c                         |  18 ++-
>  mm/damon/ops-common.h                         |   4 +-
>  mm/damon/paddr.c                              |   6 +-
>  mm/damon/vaddr.c                              |  14 ++-
>  mm/filemap.c                                  |   2 +-
>  mm/gup.c                                      |  21 ++--
>  mm/highmem.c                                  |  12 +-
>  mm/hmm.c                                      |   2 +-
>  mm/huge_memory.c                              |   4 +-
>  mm/hugetlb.c                                  |   2 +-
>  mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c                          |   6 +-
>  mm/kasan/init.c                               |   9 +-
>  mm/kasan/shadow.c                             |  10 +-
>  mm/khugepaged.c                               |  24 ++--
>  mm/ksm.c                                      |  22 ++--
>  mm/madvise.c                                  |   6 +-
>  mm/mapping_dirty_helpers.c                    |   4 +-
>  mm/memcontrol.c                               |   4 +-
>  mm/memory-failure.c                           |   6 +-
>  mm/memory.c                                   | 103 +++++++++---------
>  mm/mempolicy.c                                |   6 +-
>  mm/migrate.c                                  |  14 ++-
>  mm/migrate_device.c                           |  14 ++-
>  mm/mincore.c                                  |   2 +-
>  mm/mlock.c                                    |   6 +-
>  mm/mprotect.c                                 |   8 +-
>  mm/mremap.c                                   |   2 +-
>  mm/page_table_check.c                         |   4 +-
>  mm/page_vma_mapped.c                          |  26 +++--
>  mm/pgtable-generic.c                          |   2 +-
>  mm/rmap.c                                     |  32 +++---
>  mm/sparse-vmemmap.c                           |   8 +-
>  mm/swap_state.c                               |   4 +-
>  mm/swapfile.c                                 |  16 +--
>  mm/userfaultfd.c                              |   4 +-
>  mm/vmalloc.c                                  |  11 +-
>  mm/vmscan.c                                   |  14 ++-
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c                           |   9 +-
>  48 files changed, 302 insertions(+), 236 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.25.1
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