ARM: add support to dump the kernel page tables
Steve Capper
steve.capper at linaro.org
Thu Oct 24 08:55:31 EDT 2013
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 01:23:06PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:51:44AM +0100, Steve Capper wrote:
> > Hi Russell,
> > I've given this a quick go on an Arndale with LPAE, and have a few
> > suggestions below.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
> > > index 5689c18..d7682cd 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
> > > @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@
> > > PMD_TYPE_TABLE)
> > > #define pmd_sect(pmd) ((pmd_val(pmd) & PMD_TYPE_MASK) == \
> > > PMD_TYPE_SECT)
> > > +#define pmd_large(pmd) pmd_sect(pmd)
> >
> > Could we please instead do something like:
> > #define pmd_large(pmd) (pmd_val(pmd) && !(pmd_val(pmd) & PMD_TABLE_BIT))
> >
> > This matches the logic used in the huge pages patches (it picks up the
> > PROT_NONE case) that would be missed above.
>
> Is this used in the generic parts of the kernel? Can you please point
> out where?
>
Apologies I was a little vague. I don't think there are any PROT_NONE
protected kernel huge pages, I am worried that pmd_huge may be used by
other code (and then run into problems with PROT_NONE).
Cheers,
--
Steve
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