TL;DR: always call the PTE/PMD ctor, passing the appropriate mm to skip
ptlock_init() if unneeded.
__create_pgd_mapping() is used for creating different kinds of mappings,
and may allocate page table pages if passed an allocator callback. There
are currently three such cases:
1. create_pgd_mapping(), which is used to create the EFI mapping
2. arch_add_memory()
3. map_entry_trampoline()
1. uses pgd_pgtable_alloc() as allocator callback, which calls the
PTE/PMD ctor, while 2. and 3. use __pgd_pgtable_alloc(), which does not.
The rationale is most likely that pgtables associated with init_mm do not
make use of split page table locks, and it is therefore unnecessary to
initialise them by calling the ctor. 2. operates on swapper_pg_dir so
the allocated pgtables are clearly associated with init_mm, this is
arguably the case for 3. too (the trampoline mapping is never modified so
ptlocks are anyway irrelevant). 1. corresponds to efi_mm so ptlocks need
to be initialised in that case.
We are now moving towards calling the ctor for all page tables, even those
associated with init_mm. pagetable_{pte,pmd}_ctor() have become aware of
the associated mm so that the ptlock initialisation can be skipped for
init_mm. This patch therefore amends the allocator callbacks so that the
PTE/PMD ctor are always called, with an appropriate mm pointer to avoid
unnecessary ptlock overhead.
Modifying the prototype of the allocator callbacks to take the mm and
propagating that pointer all the way down would be pretty invasive.
Instead:
* __pgd_pgtable_alloc() (cases 2. and 3. above) is replaced with
pgd_pgtable_alloc_init_mm(), resulting in the ctors being called with
&init_mm. This is the main functional change in this patch; the ptlock
still isn't initialised, but other ctor actions (e.g.
accounting-related) are now carried out for those allocated pgtables.
* pgd_pgtable_alloc() (case 1. above) is replaced with
pgd_pgtable_alloc_special_mm(), resulting in the ctors being called with
NULL as mm. No functional change here; NULL essentially means "not
init_mm", and the ptlock is still initialised.
__pgd_pgtable_alloc() is now the common implementation of those two
helpers. While at it we switch it to using pagetable_alloc() like
standard pgtable allocator functions and remove the comment regarding ctor
calls (ctors are now always expected to be called).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-10-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Since [1], constructors/destructors are expected to be called for all page
table pages, at all levels and for both user and kernel pgtables. There
is however one glaring exception: kernel PTEs are managed via separate
helpers (pte_alloc_kernel/pte_free_kernel), which do not call the [cd]tor,
at least not in the generic implementation.
The most obvious reason for this anomaly is that init_mm is special-cased
not to use split page table locks. As a result calling ptlock_init() for
PTEs associated with init_mm would be wasteful, potentially resulting in
dynamic memory allocation. However, pgtable [cd]tors perform other
actions - currently related to accounting/statistics, and potentially more
functionally significant in the future.
Now that pagetable_pte_ctor() is passed the associated mm, we can make it
skip the call to ptlock_init() for init_mm; this allows us to call the
ctor from pte_alloc_one_kernel() too. This is matched by a call to the
pgtable destructor in pte_free_kernel(); no special-casing is needed on
that path, as ptlock_free() is already called unconditionally.
(ptlock_free() is a no-op unless a ptlock was allocated for the given
PTP.)
This patch ensures that all architectures that rely on
<asm-generic/pgalloc.h> call the [cd]tor for kernel PTEs.
pte_free_kernel() cannot be overridden so changing the generic
implementation is sufficient. pte_alloc_one_kernel() can be overridden
using __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_ALLOC_ONE_KERNEL, and a few architectures implement
it by calling the page allocator directly. We amend those so that they
call the generic __pte_alloc_one_kernel() instead, if possible, ensuring
that the ctor is called.
A few architectures do not use <asm-generic/pgalloc.h>; those will be
taken care of separately.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250103184415.2744423-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-4-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> # s390
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Always call constructor for kernel page tables", v2.
There has been much confusion around exactly when page table
constructors/destructors (pagetable_*_[cd]tor) are supposed to be called.
They were initially introduced for user PTEs only (to support split page
table locks), then at the PMD level for the same purpose. Accounting was
added later on, starting at the PTE level and then moving to higher levels
(PMD, PUD). Finally, with my earlier series "Account page tables at all
levels" [1], the ctor/dtor is run for all levels, all the way to PGD.
I thought this was the end of the story, and it hopefully is for user
pgtables, but I was wrong for what concerns kernel pgtables. The current
situation there makes very little sense:
* At the PTE level, the ctor/dtor is not called (at least in the generic
implementation). Specific helpers are used for kernel pgtables at this
level (pte_{alloc,free}_kernel()) and those have never called the
ctor/dtor, most likely because they were initially irrelevant in the
kernel case.
* At all other levels, the ctor/dtor is normally called. This is
potentially wasteful at the PMD level (more on that later).
This series aims to ensure that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel
pgtables, as it already is for user pgtables. Besides consistency, the
main motivation is to guarantee that ctor/dtor hooks are systematically
called; this makes it possible to insert hooks to protect page tables [2],
for instance. There is however an extra challenge: split locks are not
used for kernel pgtables, and it would therefore be wasteful to initialise
them (ptlock_init()).
It is worth clarifying exactly when split locks are used. They clearly
are for user pgtables, but as illustrated in commit 61444cde91 ("ARM:
8591/1: mm: use fully constructed struct pages for EFI pgd allocations"),
they also are for special page tables like efi_mm. The one case where
split locks are definitely unused is pgtables owned by init_mm; this is
consistent with the behaviour of apply_to_pte_range().
The approach chosen in this series is therefore to pass the mm associated
to the pgtables being constructed to pagetable_{pte,pmd}_ctor() (patch 1),
and skip ptlock_init() if mm == &init_mm (patch 3 and 7). This makes it
possible to call the PTE ctor/dtor from pte_{alloc,free}_kernel() without
unintended consequences (patch 3). As a result the accounting functions
are now called at all levels for kernel pgtables, and split locks are
never initialised.
In configurations where ptlocks are dynamically allocated (32-bit,
PREEMPT_RT, etc.) and ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK is selected, this
series results in the removal of a kmem_cache allocation for every kernel
PMD. Additionally, for certain architectures that do not use
<asm-generic/pgalloc.h> such as s390, the same optimisation occurs at the
PTE level.
===
Things get more complicated when it comes to special pgtable allocators
(patch 8-12). All architectures need such allocators to create initial
kernel pgtables; we are not concerned with those as the ctor cannot be
called so early in the boot sequence. However, those allocators may also
be used later in the boot sequence or during normal operations. There are
two main use-cases:
1. Mapping EFI memory: efi_mm (arm, arm64, riscv)
2. arch_add_memory(): init_mm
The ctor is already explicitly run (at the PTE/PMD level) in the first
case, as required for pgtables that are not associated with init_mm.
However the same allocators may also be used for the second use-case (or
others), and this is where it gets messy. Patch 1 calls the ctor with
NULL as mm in those situations, as the actual mm isn't available.
Practically this means that ptlocks will be unconditionally initialised.
This is fine on arm - create_mapping_late() is only used for the EFI
mapping. On arm64, __create_pgd_mapping() is also used by
arch_add_memory(); patch 8/9/11 ensure that ctors are called at all levels
with the appropriate mm. The situation is similar on riscv, but
propagating the mm down to the ctor would require significant refactoring.
Since they are already called unconditionally, this series leaves riscv
no worse off - patch 10 adds comments to clarify the situation.
From a cursory look at other architectures implementing arch_add_memory(),
s390 and x86 may also need a similar treatment to add constructor calls.
This is to be taken care of in a future version or as a follow-up.
===
The complications in those special pgtable allocators beg the question:
does it really make sense to treat efi_mm and init_mm differently in e.g.
apply_to_pte_range()? Maybe what we really need is a way to tell if an mm
corresponds to user memory or not, and never use split locks for non-user
mm's. Feedback and suggestions welcome!
This patch (of 12):
In preparation for calling constructors for all kernel page tables while
eliding unnecessary ptlock initialisation, let's pass down the associated
mm to the PTE/PMD level ctors. (These are the two levels where ptlocks
are used.)
In most cases the mm is already around at the point of calling the ctor so
we simply pass it down. This is however not the case for special page
table allocators:
* arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
* arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
* arch/riscv/mm/init.c
In those cases, the page tables being allocated are either for standard
kernel memory (init_mm) or special page directories, which may not be
associated to any mm. For now let's pass NULL as mm; this will be refined
where possible in future patches.
No functional change in this patch.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250103184415.2744423-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20250203101839.1223008-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-2-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> [s390]
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64", v2.
Last argument passed down in note_page() is u64 assuming pxd_val()
returned value (all page table levels) is 64 bit - which might not be the
case going ahead when D128 page tables is enabled on arm64 platform.
Besides pxd_val() is very platform specific and its type should not be
assumed in generic MM. A similar problem exists for effective_prot(),
although it is restricted to x86 platform.
This series splits note_page() and effective_prot() into individual page
table level specific callbacks which accepts corresponding pxd_t page
table entry as an argument instead and later on all subscribing platforms
could derive pxd_val() from the table entries as required and proceed as
before.
Define ptdesc_t type which describes the basic page table descriptor
layout on arm64 platform. Subsequently all level specific pxxval_t
descriptors are derived from ptdesc_t thus establishing a common original
format, which can also be appropriate for page table entries, masks and
protection values etc which are used at all page table levels.
This patch (of 3):
Last argument passed down in note_page() is u64 assuming pxd_val()
returned value (all page table levels) is 64 bit - which might not be the
case going ahead when D128 page tables is enabled on arm64 platform.
Besides pxd_val() is very platform specific and its type should not be
assumed in generic MM.
Split note_page() into individual page table level specific callbacks
which accepts corresponding pxd_t argument instead and then subscribing
platforms just derive pxd_val() from the entries as required and proceed
as earlier.
Also add a note_page_flush() callback for flushing the last page table
page that was being handled earlier via level = -1.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407053113.746295-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407053113.746295-2-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API", v7.
PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO is a generic ptrace API that complements
PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO by letting the ptracer modify details of system
calls the tracee is blocked in.
This API allows ptracers to obtain and modify system call details in a
straightforward and architecture-agnostic way, providing a consistent way
of manipulating the system call number and arguments across architectures.
As in case of PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO, PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO also does
not aim to address numerous architecture-specific system call ABI
peculiarities, like differences in the number of system call arguments for
such system calls as pread64 and preadv.
The current implementation supports changing only those bits of system
call information that are used by strace system call tampering, namely,
syscall number, syscall arguments, and syscall return value.
Support of changing additional details returned by
PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO, such as instruction pointer and stack pointer,
could be added later if needed, by using struct ptrace_syscall_info.flags
to specify the additional details that should be set. Currently, "flags"
and "reserved" fields of struct ptrace_syscall_info must be initialized
with zeroes; "arch", "instruction_pointer", and "stack_pointer" fields are
currently ignored.
PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO currently supports only PTRACE_SYSCALL_INFO_ENTRY,
PTRACE_SYSCALL_INFO_EXIT, and PTRACE_SYSCALL_INFO_SECCOMP operations.
Other operations could be added later if needed.
Ideally, PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO should have been introduced along with
PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO, but it didn't happen. The last straw that
convinced me to implement PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO was apparent failure to
provide an API of changing the first system call argument on riscv
architecture [1].
ptrace(2) man page:
long ptrace(enum __ptrace_request request, pid_t pid, void *addr, void *data);
...
PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO
Modify information about the system call that caused the stop.
The "data" argument is a pointer to struct ptrace_syscall_info
that specifies the system call information to be set.
The "addr" argument should be set to sizeof(struct ptrace_syscall_info)).
This patch (of 6):
hexagon is the only architecture that provides HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK but
doesn't define syscall_set_return_value(). Since this function is going
to be needed on all HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK architectures to implement
PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API, add it on hexagon, too.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/59505464-c84a-403d-972f-d4b2055eeaac@gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303111953.GB24170@strace.io
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@strace.io>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov (Intel) <legion@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: anton ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@quicinc.com>
Cc: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davide Berardi <berardi.dav@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Renzo Davoi <renzo@cs.unibo.it>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Add folio_mk_pte()", v2.
Today if you have a folio and want to create a PTE that points to the
first page in it, you have to convert from a folio to a page. That's
zero-cost today but will be more expensive in the future.
I didn't want to add folio_mk_pte() to each architecture, and I didn't
want to lose any optimisations that architectures have from their own
implementation of mk_pte(). Fortunately, most architectures have by now
turned their mk_pte() into a fairly bland variant of pfn_pte(), but s390
has a special optimisation that needs to be moved into generic code in the
first patch.
At the end of this patch set, we have mk_pte() and folio_mk_pte() in mm.h
and each architecture only has to implement pfn_pte(). We've also
eliminated mk_huge_pte(), mk_huge_pmd() and mk_pmd().
This patch (of 11):
If the first access to a folio is a read that is then followed by a write,
we can save a page fault. s390 implemented this in their mk_pte() in
commit abf09bed3c ("s390/mm: implement software dirty bits"), but other
architectures can also benefit from this.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402181709.2386022-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402181709.2386022-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> # for s390
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
"ARM:
- Avoid use of uninitialized memcache pointer in user_mem_abort()
- Always set HCR_EL2.xMO bits when running in VHE, allowing
interrupts to be taken while TGE=0 and fixing an ugly bug on
AmpereOne that occurs when taking an interrupt while clearing the
xMO bits (AC03_CPU_36)
- Prevent VMMs from hiding support for AArch64 at any EL virtualized
by KVM
- Save/restore the host value for HCRX_EL2 instead of restoring an
incorrect fixed value
- Make host_stage2_set_owner_locked() check that the entire requested
range is memory rather than just the first page
RISC-V:
- Add missing reset of smstateen CSRs
x86:
- Forcibly leave SMM on SHUTDOWN interception on AMD CPUs to avoid
causing problems due to KVM stuffing INIT on SHUTDOWN (KVM needs to
sanitize the VMCB as its state is undefined after SHUTDOWN,
emulating INIT is the least awful choice).
- Track the valid sync/dirty fields in kvm_run as a u64 to ensure KVM
KVM doesn't goof a sanity check in the future.
- Free obsolete roots when (re)loading the MMU to fix a bug where
pre-faulting memory can get stuck due to always encountering a
stale root.
- When dumping GHCB state, use KVM's snapshot instead of the raw GHCB
page to print state, so that KVM doesn't print stale/wrong
information.
- When changing memory attributes (e.g. shared <=> private), add
potential hugepage ranges to the mmu_invalidate_range_{start,end}
set so that KVM doesn't create a shared/private hugepage when the
the corresponding attributes will become mixed (the attributes are
commited *after* KVM finishes the invalidation).
- Rework the SRSO mitigation to enable BP_SPEC_REDUCE only when KVM
has at least one active VM. Effectively BP_SPEC_REDUCE when KVM is
loaded led to very measurable performance regressions for non-KVM
workloads"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: SVM: Set/clear SRSO's BP_SPEC_REDUCE on 0 <=> 1 VM count transitions
KVM: arm64: Fix memory check in host_stage2_set_owner_locked()
KVM: arm64: Kill HCRX_HOST_FLAGS
KVM: arm64: Properly save/restore HCRX_EL2
KVM: arm64: selftest: Don't try to disable AArch64 support
KVM: arm64: Prevent userspace from disabling AArch64 support at any virtualisable EL
KVM: arm64: Force HCR_EL2.xMO to 1 at all times in VHE mode
KVM: arm64: Fix uninitialized memcache pointer in user_mem_abort()
KVM: x86/mmu: Prevent installing hugepages when mem attributes are changing
KVM: SVM: Update dump_ghcb() to use the GHCB snapshot fields
KVM: RISC-V: reset smstateen CSRs
KVM: x86/mmu: Check and free obsolete roots in kvm_mmu_reload()
KVM: x86: Check that the high 32bits are clear in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run()
KVM: SVM: Forcibly leave SMM mode on SHUTDOWN interception
Pull x86 fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix a boot regression on very old x86 CPUs without CPUID support"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2025-05-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/microcode: Consolidate the loader enablement checking
Pull misc timers fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix time keeping bugs in CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE clocks
- Work around absolute relocations into vDSO code that GCC erroneously
emits in certain arm64 build environments
- Fix a false positive lockdep warning in the i8253 clocksource driver
* tag 'timers-urgent-2025-05-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clocksource/i8253: Use raw_spinlock_irqsave() in clockevent_i8253_disable()
arm64: vdso: Work around invalid absolute relocations from GCC
timekeeping: Prevent coarse clocks going backwards
Pull misc hotfixes from Andrew Morton:
"22 hotfixes. 13 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.14
issues or aren't considered necessary for -stable kernels.
About half are for MM. Five OCFS2 fixes and a few MAINTAINERS updates"
* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-05-10-14-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (22 commits)
mm: fix folio_pte_batch() on XEN PV
nilfs2: fix deadlock warnings caused by lock dependency in init_nilfs()
mm/hugetlb: copy the CMA flag when demoting
mm, swap: fix false warning for large allocation with !THP_SWAP
selftests/mm: fix a build failure on powerpc
selftests/mm: fix build break when compiling pkey_util.c
mm: vmalloc: support more granular vrealloc() sizing
tools/testing/selftests: fix guard region test tmpfs assumption
ocfs2: stop quota recovery before disabling quotas
ocfs2: implement handshaking with ocfs2 recovery thread
ocfs2: switch osb->disable_recovery to enum
mailmap: map Uwe's BayLibre addresses to a single one
MAINTAINERS: add mm THP section
mm/userfaultfd: fix uninitialized output field for -EAGAIN race
selftests/mm: compaction_test: support platform with huge mount of memory
MAINTAINERS: add core mm section
ocfs2: fix panic in failed foilio allocation
mm/huge_memory: fix dereferencing invalid pmd migration entry
MAINTAINERS: add reverse mapping section
x86: disable image size check for test builds
...
KVM x86 fixes for 6.15-rcN
- Forcibly leave SMM on SHUTDOWN interception on AMD CPUs to avoid causing
problems due to KVM stuffing INIT on SHUTDOWN (KVM needs to sanitize the
VMCB as its state is undefined after SHUTDOWN, emulating INIT is the
least awful choice).
- Track the valid sync/dirty fields in kvm_run as a u64 to ensure KVM
KVM doesn't goof a sanity check in the future.
- Free obsolete roots when (re)loading the MMU to fix a bug where
pre-faulting memory can get stuck due to always encountering a stale
root.
- When dumping GHCB state, use KVM's snapshot instead of the raw GHCB page
to print state, so that KVM doesn't print stale/wrong information.
- When changing memory attributes (e.g. shared <=> private), add potential
hugepage ranges to the mmu_invalidate_range_{start,end} set so that KVM
doesn't create a shared/private hugepage when the the corresponding
attributes will become mixed (the attributes are commited *after* KVM
finishes the invalidation).
- Rework the SRSO mitigation to enable BP_SPEC_REDUCE only when KVM has at
least one active VM. Effectively BP_SPEC_REDUCE when KVM is loaded led
to very measurable performance regressions for non-KVM workloads.
KVM/arm64 fixes for 6.15, round #3
- Avoid use of uninitialized memcache pointer in user_mem_abort()
- Always set HCR_EL2.xMO bits when running in VHE, allowing interrupts
to be taken while TGE=0 and fixing an ugly bug on AmpereOne that
occurs when taking an interrupt while clearing the xMO bits
(AC03_CPU_36)
- Prevent VMMs from hiding support for AArch64 at any EL virtualized by
KVM
- Save/restore the host value for HCRX_EL2 instead of restoring an
incorrect fixed value
- Make host_stage2_set_owner_locked() check that the entire requested
range is memory rather than just the first page
Pull rust fixes from Miguel Ojeda:
- Make CFI_AUTO_DEFAULT depend on !RUST or Rust >= 1.88.0
- Clean Rust (and Clippy) lints for the upcoming Rust 1.87.0 and 1.88.0
releases
- Clean objtool warning for the upcoming Rust 1.87.0 release by adding
one more noreturn function
* tag 'rust-fixes-6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux:
x86/Kconfig: make CFI_AUTO_DEFAULT depend on !RUST or Rust >= 1.88
rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's `clippy::uninlined_format_args` lint
rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about `clippy::disallowed_macros` configuration
rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's `unnecessary_transmutes` lint
rust: allow Rust 1.87.0's `clippy::ptr_eq` lint
objtool/rust: add one more `noreturn` Rust function for Rust 1.87.0
Pull arm64 fix from Catalin Marinas:
"Move the arm64_use_ng_mappings variable from the .bss to the .data
section as it is accessed very early during boot with the MMU off and
before the .bss has been initialised.
This could lead to incorrect idmap page table"
* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
arm64: cpufeature: Move arm64_use_ng_mappings to the .data section to prevent wrong idmap generation
Pull RISC-V fixes from Palmer Dabbelt:
- The compressed half-word misaligned access instructions (c.lhu, c.lh,
and c.sh) from the Zcb extension are now properly emulated
- A series of fixes to properly emulate permissions while handling
userspace misaligned accesses
- A pair of fixes for PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL to avoid accessing the
envcfg CSR on systems that don't support that CSR, and to report
those failures up to userspace
- The .rela.dyn section is no longer stripped from vmlinux, as it is
necessary to relocate the kernel under some conditions (including
kexec)
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.15-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
riscv: Disallow PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL without Supm
scripts: Do not strip .rela.dyn section
riscv: Fix kernel crash due to PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL
riscv: misaligned: use get_user() instead of __get_user()
riscv: misaligned: enable IRQs while handling misaligned accesses
riscv: misaligned: factorize trap handling
riscv: misaligned: Add handling for ZCB instructions
tl;dr: There is a window in the mm switching code where the new CR3 is
set and the CPU should be getting TLB flushes for the new mm. But
should_flush_tlb() has a bug and suppresses the flush. Fix it by
widening the window where should_flush_tlb() sends an IPI.
Long Version:
=== History ===
There were a few things leading up to this.
First, updating mm_cpumask() was observed to be too expensive, so it was
made lazier. But being lazy caused too many unnecessary IPIs to CPUs
due to the now-lazy mm_cpumask(). So code was added to cull
mm_cpumask() periodically[2]. But that culling was a bit too aggressive
and skipped sending TLB flushes to CPUs that need them. So here we are
again.
=== Problem ===
The too-aggressive code in should_flush_tlb() strikes in this window:
// Turn on IPIs for this CPU/mm combination, but only
// if should_flush_tlb() agrees:
cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next));
next_tlb_gen = atomic64_read(&next->context.tlb_gen);
choose_new_asid(next, next_tlb_gen, &new_asid, &need_flush);
load_new_mm_cr3(need_flush);
// ^ After 'need_flush' is set to false, IPIs *MUST*
// be sent to this CPU and not be ignored.
this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm, next);
// ^ Not until this point does should_flush_tlb()
// become true!
should_flush_tlb() will suppress TLB flushes between load_new_mm_cr3()
and writing to 'loaded_mm', which is a window where they should not be
suppressed. Whoops.
=== Solution ===
Thankfully, the fuzzy "just about to write CR3" window is already marked
with loaded_mm==LOADED_MM_SWITCHING. Simply checking for that state in
should_flush_tlb() is sufficient to ensure that the CPU is targeted with
an IPI.
This will cause more TLB flush IPIs. But the window is relatively small
and I do not expect this to cause any kind of measurable performance
impact.
Update the comment where LOADED_MM_SWITCHING is written since it grew
yet another user.
Peter Z also raised a concern that should_flush_tlb() might not observe
'loaded_mm' and 'is_lazy' in the same order that switch_mm_irqs_off()
writes them. Add a barrier to ensure that they are observed in the
order they are written.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202411282207.6bd28eae-lkp@intel.com/ [1]
Fixes: 6db2526c1d ("x86/mm/tlb: Only trim the mm_cpumask once a second") [2]
Reported-by: Stephen Dolan <sdolan@janestreet.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull s390 fixes from Heiko Carstens:
- Fix potential use-after-free bug and missing error handling in PCI
code
- Fix dcssblk build error
- Fix last breaking event handling in case of stack corruption to allow
for better error reporting
- Update defconfigs
* tag 's390-6.15-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
s390/pci: Fix duplicate pci_dev_put() in disable_slot() when PF has child VFs
s390/pci: Fix missing check for zpci_create_device() error return
s390: Update defconfigs
s390/dcssblk: Fix build error with CONFIG_DAX=m and CONFIG_DCSSBLK=y
s390/entry: Fix last breaking event handling in case of stack corruption
s390/configs: Enable options required for TC flow offload
s390/configs: Enable VDPA on Nvidia ConnectX-6 network card
Set the magic BP_SPEC_REDUCE bit to mitigate SRSO when running VMs if and
only if KVM has at least one active VM. Leaving the bit set at all times
unfortunately degrades performance by a wee bit more than expected.
Use a dedicated spinlock and counter instead of hooking virtualization
enablement, as changing the behavior of kvm.enable_virt_at_load based on
SRSO_BP_SPEC_REDUCE is painful, and has its own drawbacks, e.g. could
result in performance issues for flows that are sensitive to VM creation
latency.
Defer setting BP_SPEC_REDUCE until VMRUN is imminent to avoid impacting
performance on CPUs that aren't running VMs, e.g. if a setup is using
housekeeping CPUs. Setting BP_SPEC_REDUCE in task context, i.e. without
blasting IPIs to all CPUs, also helps avoid serializing 1<=>N transitions
without incurring a gross amount of complexity (see the Link for details
on how ugly coordinating via IPIs gets).
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aBOnzNCngyS_pQIW@google.com
Fixes: 8442df2b49 ("x86/bugs: KVM: Add support for SRSO_MSR_FIX")
Reported-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@michaellarabel.com>
Closes: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-615-amd-regression
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250505180300.973137-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
When the prctl() interface for pointer masking was added, it did not
check that the pointer masking ISA extension was supported, only the
individual submodes. Userspace could still attempt to disable pointer
masking and query the pointer masking state. commit 81de1afb2dd1
("riscv: Fix kernel crash due to PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL") disallowed
the former, as the senvcfg write could crash on older systems.
PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL state does not crash, because it reads only
kernel-internal state and not senvcfg, but it should still be disallowed
for consistency.
Fixes: 09d6775f50 ("riscv: Add support for userspace pointer masking")
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507145230.2272871-1-samuel.holland@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
When userspace does PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, but Supm extension is not
available, the kernel crashes:
Oops - illegal instruction [#1]
[snip]
epc : set_tagged_addr_ctrl+0x112/0x15a
ra : set_tagged_addr_ctrl+0x74/0x15a
epc : ffffffff80011ace ra : ffffffff80011a30 sp : ffffffc60039be10
[snip]
status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: 0000000010a79073 cause: 0000000000000002
set_tagged_addr_ctrl+0x112/0x15a
__riscv_sys_prctl+0x352/0x73c
do_trap_ecall_u+0x17c/0x20c
andle_exception+0x150/0x15c
Fix it by checking if Supm is available.
Fixes: 09d6775f50 ("riscv: Add support for userspace pointer masking")
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250504101920.3393053-1-namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
The zpci_create_device() function returns an error pointer that needs to
be checked before dereferencing it as a struct zpci_dev pointer. Add the
missing check in __clp_add() where it was missed when adding the
scan_list in the fixed commit. Simply not adding the device to the scan
list results in the previous behavior.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0467cdde8c ("s390/pci: Sort PCI functions prior to creating virtual busses")
Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
HCRX_HOST_FLAGS, like most of these hardcoded setups, are not
a good match for options that can be selectively enabled or
disabled.
Nothing but the early setup is relying on it now, so kill the
macro and move the bag of bits where they belong.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250430105916.3815157-3-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Rather than restoring HCRX_EL2 to a fixed value on vcpu exit,
perform a full save/restore of the register, ensuring that
we don't lose bits that would have been set at some point in
the host kernel lifetime, such as the GCSEn bit.
Fixes: ff5181d8a2 ("arm64/gcs: Provide basic EL2 setup to allow GCS usage at EL0 and EL1")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250430105916.3815157-2-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
