mm: ptdump should use ptep_get_lockless()

Patch series "Encapsulate PTE contents from non-arch code", v3.

A series to improve the encapsulation of pte entries by disallowing
non-arch code from directly dereferencing pte_t pointers.

This means that by default, the accesses change from a C dereference to a
READ_ONCE().  This is technically the correct thing to do since where
pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are volatile and
therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics.

But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by
the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte.  Arch code
is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best.  It is
intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own
implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or
determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source.


This patch (of 3):

The page table dumper uses walk_page_range_novma() to walk the page
tables, which does not lock the PTL before calling the pte_entry()
callback.  Therefore, the page table dumper's callback must use
ptep_get_lockless() rather than ptep_get() to ensure that the pte it reads
is not torn or otherwise corrupt when racing with writers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alex Williamson <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <[email protected]>
Cc: Yu Zhao <[email protected]>
Cc: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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