[PATCH RFC v3 1/2] mm: Add personality flag to limit address to 47 bits

[Michael Ellerman]

"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd at arndb.de> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2024, at 23:22, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 10:52:34AM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 09:14:08AM GMT, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> The intent is to optionally be able to run a process that keeps higher bits
>>> free for tagging and to be sure no memory mapping in the process will
>>> clobber these (correct me if I'm wrong Charlie! :)
...
> Let's see what the other architectures do and then come up with
> a way that fixes the pointer tagging case first on those that are
> broken. We can see if there needs to be an extra flag after that.
> Here is what I found:
>
> - x86_64 uses DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW of BIT(47), uses a 57 bit
>   address space when an addr hint is passed.
> - arm64 uses DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW of BIT(47) or BIT(48), returns
>   higher 52-bit addresses when either a hint is passed or
>   CONFIG_EXPERT and CONFIG_ARM64_FORCE_52BIT is set (this
>   is a debugging option)
> - ppc64 uses a DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW of BIT(47) or BIT(48),
>   returns 52 bit address when an addr hint is passed
   
It's 46 or 47 depending on PAGE_SIZE (4K or 64K):

  $ git grep "define DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW_USER64" arch/powerpc/include/asm/task_size_64.h
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/task_size_64.h:#define DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW_USER64        TASK_SIZE_128TB
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/task_size_64.h:#define DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW_USER64        TASK_SIZE_64TB

cheers