[RFC PATCH 10/10] arm64: mm: restrict __pa() translations to linear virtual addresses

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Feb 23 04:31:51 PST 2016


On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 01:29:21PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 23 February 2016 at 13:26, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 09:54:32PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> Now that we have replaced all occurrences of __pa() translations
> >> involving virtual addresses that are covered by the kernel text,
> >> we can redefine __virt_to_phys and __pa() etc to only take virtual
> >> address that are covered by the linear mapping. This means we can
> >> remove the comparison with PAGE_OFFSET in the definition of
> >> __virt_to_phys().
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 12 +++++++-----
> >>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> >> index 56d6739430f3..3b5dc5b243ac 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> >> @@ -86,11 +86,14 @@
> >>   * private definitions which should NOT be used outside memory.h
> >>   * files.  Use virt_to_phys/phys_to_virt/__pa/__va instead.
> >>   */
> >> -#define __virt_to_phys(x) ({                                         \
> >> +#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
> >> +#define __virt_to_phys(x)    (((phys_addr_t)(x) & ~PAGE_OFFSET) + PHYS_OFFSET)
> >> +#else
> >> +#define __virt_to_phys(x)    ({                                      \
> >>       phys_addr_t __x = (phys_addr_t)(x);                             \
> >> -     __x & BIT(VA_BITS - 1) ? (__x & ~PAGE_OFFSET) + PHYS_OFFSET :   \
> >> -                              (__x - kimage_voffset); })
> >> -
> >> +     BUG_ON(__x < PAGE_OFFSET);                                      \
> >> +     (((phys_addr_t)__x & ~PAGE_OFFSET) + PHYS_OFFSET); })
> >
> > What's the #include-hell like if you try to use VM_BUG_ON instead?
> >
> 
> The #include hell would not change I think, since
> 
> include/linux/mmdebug.h:18:#define VM_BUG_ON(cond) BUG_ON(cond)
> 
> but it would certainly make this code look a lot cleaner.

Yup, and likewise for PHYS_OFFSET.

Will



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