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| author | Dave Hansen <[email protected]> | 2018-04-06 13:55:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2018-04-12 09:05:58 +0200 |
| commit | 430d4005b8b41c19966dd3bfdb33004bdb2de01c (patch) | |
| tree | 0c24ef41097badc4e85ce4d61d4fe2fd5af7a621 | |
| parent | 1a54420aeb4da1ba5b28283aa5696898220c9a27 (diff) | |
x86/mm: Comment _PAGE_GLOBAL mystery
I was mystified as to where the _PAGE_GLOBAL in the kernel page tables
for kernel text came from. I audited all the places I could find, but
I missed one: head_64.S.
The page tables that we create in here live for a long time, and they
also have _PAGE_GLOBAL set, despite whether the processor supports it
or not. It's harmless, and we got *lucky* that the pageattr code
accidentally clears it when we wipe it out of __supported_pte_mask and
then later try to mark kernel text read-only.
Comment some of these properties to make it easier to find and
understand in the future.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S index 48385c1074a5..8344dd2f310a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S @@ -399,8 +399,13 @@ NEXT_PAGE(level3_ident_pgt) .quad level2_ident_pgt - __START_KERNEL_map + _KERNPG_TABLE_NOENC .fill 511, 8, 0 NEXT_PAGE(level2_ident_pgt) - /* Since I easily can, map the first 1G. + /* + * Since I easily can, map the first 1G. * Don't set NX because code runs from these pages. + * + * Note: This sets _PAGE_GLOBAL despite whether + * the CPU supports it or it is enabled. But, + * the CPU should ignore the bit. */ PMDS(0, __PAGE_KERNEL_IDENT_LARGE_EXEC, PTRS_PER_PMD) #else @@ -431,6 +436,10 @@ NEXT_PAGE(level2_kernel_pgt) * (NOTE: at +512MB starts the module area, see MODULES_VADDR. * If you want to increase this then increase MODULES_VADDR * too.) + * + * This table is eventually used by the kernel during normal + * runtime. Care must be taken to clear out undesired bits + * later, like _PAGE_RW or _PAGE_GLOBAL in some cases. */ PMDS(0, __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC, KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE/PMD_SIZE) |