[RESEND PATCH v5] arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge with ptdump
Dev Jain
dev.jain at arm.com
Fri Sep 19 03:28:46 PDT 2025
On 17/09/25 9:13 pm, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 11:30:26AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
>> I'm currently trying to put together a litmus test with James (cc'd) so
>> maybe we can help you out with that part.
> Here's what we came up with. There's not a good way to express the IPI
> from kick_all_cpus_sync() but it turns out that the ISB from the TLB
> invalidation is sufficient anyway. Does it make sense to you?
>
>
> AArch64 ptdump
> Variant=Ifetch
> {
> uint64_t pud=0xa110c;
> uint64_t pmd;
>
> 0:X0=label:"P1:L0"; 0:X1=instr:"NOP"; 0:X2=lock; 0:X3=pud; 0:X4=pmd;
> 1:X1=0xdead; 1:X2=lock; 1:X3=pud; 1:X4=pmd;
> }
> P0 | P1 ;
> (* static_key_enable *) | (* pud_free_pmd_page *) ;
> STR W1, [X0] | LDR X9, [X3] ;
> DC CVAU,X0 | STR XZR, [X3] ;
> DSB ISH | DSB ISH ;
> IC IVAU,X0 | ISB ;
> DSB ISH | ;
> ISB | (* static key *) ;
> | L0: ;
> (* mmap_lock *) | B out1 ;
> Lwlock: | ;
> MOV W7, #1 | (* mmap_lock *) ;
> SWPA W7, W8, [X2] | Lrlock: ;
> | MOV W7, #1 ;
> | SWPA W7, W8, [X2] ;
> (* walk pgtable *) | ;
> LDR X9, [X3] | (* mmap_unlock *) ;
> CBZ X9, out0 | STLR WZR, [X2] ;
> EOR X10, X9, X9 | ;
> LDR X11, [X4, X10] | out1: ;
> | EOR X10, X9, X9 ;
> out0: | STR X1, [X4, X10] ;
>
> exists (0:X8=0 /\ 1:X8=0 /\ (* Lock acquisitions succeed *)
> 0:X9=0xa110c /\ (* P0 sees the valid PUD ...*)
> 0:X11=0xdead) (* ... but the freed PMD *)
>
>
> Will
Is the syntax correct? I cannot use the herd7 command to run this.
Apart from that the test looks good to me.
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