[PATCH] arm64/sve: Lower the maximum allocation for the SVE ptrace regset

[Mark Brown]

Doug Anderson observed that ChromeOS crashes are being reported which
include failing allocations of order 7 during core dumps due to ptrace
allocating storage for regsets:

  chrome: page allocation failure: order:7,
          mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO),
          nodemask=(null),cpuset=urgent,mems_allowed=0
   ...
  regset_get_alloc+0x1c/0x28
  elf_core_dump+0x3d8/0xd8c
  do_coredump+0xeb8/0x1378

with further investigation showing that this is:

   [   66.957385] DOUG: Allocating 279584 bytes

which is the maximum size of the SVE regset. As Doug observes it is not
entirely surprising that such a large allocation of contiguous memory might
fail on a long running system.

The SVE regset is currently sized to hold SVE registers with a VQ of
SVE_VQ_MAX which is 512, substantially more than the architectural maximum
of 16 which we might see even in a system emulating the limits of the
architecture. Since we don't expose the size we tell the regset core
externally let's define ARCH_SVE_VQ_MAX with the actual architectural
maximum and use that for the regset, we'll still overallocate most of the
time but much less so which will be helpful even if the core is fixed to
not require contiguous allocations.

We could also teach the ptrace core about runtime discoverable regset sizes
but that would be a more invasive change and this is being observed in
practical systems.

Reported-by: Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
---
We should probably also use the actual architectural limit for the
bitmasks we use in the VL enumeration code, though that's both a little
bit more involved and less immediately a problem.
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h | 10 +++++-----
 arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c      |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
index 50e5f25d3024..cf5f31181bc8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
@@ -62,12 +62,12 @@ static inline void cpacr_restore(unsigned long cpacr)
  * When we defined the maximum SVE vector length we defined the ABI so
  * that the maximum vector length included all the reserved for future
  * expansion bits in ZCR rather than those just currently defined by
- * the architecture. While SME follows a similar pattern the fact that
- * it includes a square matrix means that any allocations that attempt
- * to cover the maximum potential vector length (such as happen with
- * the regset used for ptrace) end up being extremely large. Define
- * the much lower actual limit for use in such situations.
+ * the architecture.  Using this length to allocate worst size buffers
+ * results in excessively large allocations, and this effect is even
+ * more pronounced for SME due to ZA.  Define more suitable VLs for
+ * these situations.
  */
+#define ARCH_SVE_VQ_MAX 16
 #define SME_VQ_MAX	16
 
 struct task_struct;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index dc6cf0e37194..e3bef38fc2e2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1500,7 +1500,8 @@ static const struct user_regset aarch64_regsets[] = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SVE
 	[REGSET_SVE] = { /* Scalable Vector Extension */
 		.core_note_type = NT_ARM_SVE,
-		.n = DIV_ROUND_UP(SVE_PT_SIZE(SVE_VQ_MAX, SVE_PT_REGS_SVE),
+		.n = DIV_ROUND_UP(SVE_PT_SIZE(ARCH_SVE_VQ_MAX,
+					      SVE_PT_REGS_SVE),
 				  SVE_VQ_BYTES),
 		.size = SVE_VQ_BYTES,
 		.align = SVE_VQ_BYTES,

---
base-commit: 41bccc98fb7931d63d03f326a746ac4d429c1dd3
change-id: 20240202-arm64-sve-ptrace-regset-size-21b0928969e1

Best regards,
-- 
Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>