[PATCH v1 1/5] arm64/mm: Move PTE_PROT_NONE and PMD_PRESENT_INVALID
Ryan Roberts
ryan.roberts at arm.com
Fri Apr 19 00:43:40 PDT 2024
Previously PTE_PROT_NONE was occupying bit 58, one of the bits reserved
for SW use when the PTE is valid. This is a waste of those precious SW
bits since PTE_PROT_NONE can only ever be set when valid is clear.
Instead let's overlay it on what would be a HW bit if valid was set.
We need to be careful about which HW bit to choose since some of them
must be preserved; when pte_present() is true (as it is for a
PTE_PROT_NONE pte), it is legitimate for the core to call various
accessors, e.g. pte_dirty(), pte_write() etc. There are also some
accessors that are private to the arch which must continue to be
honoured, e.g. pte_user(), pte_user_exec() etc.
So we choose to overlay PTE_UXN; This effectively means that whenever a
pte has PTE_PROT_NONE set, it will always report pte_user_exec() ==
false, which is obviously always correct.
As a result of this change, we must shuffle the layout of the
arch-specific swap pte so that PTE_PROT_NONE is always zero and not
overlapping with any other field. As a result of this, there is no way
to keep the `type` field contiguous without conflicting with
PMD_PRESENT_INVALID (bit 59), which must also be 0 for a swap pte. So
let's move PMD_PRESENT_INVALID to bit 60.
In the end, this frees up bit 58 for future use as a proper SW bit (e.g.
soft-dirty or uffd-wp).
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h | 4 ++--
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 16 +++++++++-------
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
index dd9ee67d1d87..ef952d69fd04 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@
#define PTE_DIRTY (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 55)
#define PTE_SPECIAL (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 56)
#define PTE_DEVMAP (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 57)
-#define PTE_PROT_NONE (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 58) /* only when !PTE_VALID */
+#define PTE_PROT_NONE (PTE_UXN) /* Reuse PTE_UXN; only when !PTE_VALID */
/*
* This bit indicates that the entry is present i.e. pmd_page()
* still points to a valid huge page in memory even if the pmd
* has been invalidated.
*/
-#define PMD_PRESENT_INVALID (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 59) /* only when !PMD_SECT_VALID */
+#define PMD_PRESENT_INVALID (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 60) /* only when !PMD_SECT_VALID */
#define _PROT_DEFAULT (PTE_TYPE_PAGE | PTE_AF | PTE_SHARED)
#define _PROT_SECT_DEFAULT (PMD_TYPE_SECT | PMD_SECT_AF | PMD_SECT_S)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index afdd56d26ad7..23aabff4fa6f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -1248,20 +1248,22 @@ static inline pmd_t pmdp_establish(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* Encode and decode a swap entry:
* bits 0-1: present (must be zero)
* bits 2: remember PG_anon_exclusive
- * bits 3-7: swap type
- * bits 8-57: swap offset
- * bit 58: PTE_PROT_NONE (must be zero)
+ * bits 4-53: swap offset
+ * bit 54: PTE_PROT_NONE (overlays PTE_UXN) (must be zero)
+ * bits 55-59: swap type
+ * bit 60: PMD_PRESENT_INVALID (must be zero)
*/
-#define __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT 3
+#define __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT 55
#define __SWP_TYPE_BITS 5
-#define __SWP_OFFSET_BITS 50
#define __SWP_TYPE_MASK ((1 << __SWP_TYPE_BITS) - 1)
-#define __SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT (__SWP_TYPE_BITS + __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT)
+#define __SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT 4
+#define __SWP_OFFSET_BITS 50
#define __SWP_OFFSET_MASK ((1UL << __SWP_OFFSET_BITS) - 1)
#define __swp_type(x) (((x).val >> __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT) & __SWP_TYPE_MASK)
#define __swp_offset(x) (((x).val >> __SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT) & __SWP_OFFSET_MASK)
-#define __swp_entry(type,offset) ((swp_entry_t) { ((type) << __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT) | ((offset) << __SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT) })
+#define __swp_entry(type, offset) ((swp_entry_t) { ((unsigned long)(type) << __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT) | \
+ ((unsigned long)(offset) << __SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT) })
#define __pte_to_swp_entry(pte) ((swp_entry_t) { pte_val(pte) })
#define __swp_entry_to_pte(swp) ((pte_t) { (swp).val })
--
2.25.1
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