mm: add functions to track page directory modifications

Patch series "mm: Get rid of vmalloc_sync_(un)mappings()", v3.

After the recent issue with vmalloc and tracing code[1] on x86 and a
long history of previous issues related to the vmalloc_sync_mappings()
interface, I thought the time has come to remove it.  Please see [2],
[3], and [4] for some other issues in the past.

The patches add tracking of page-table directory changes to the vmalloc
and ioremap code.  Depending on which page-table levels changes have
been made, a new per-arch function is called:
arch_sync_kernel_mappings().

On x86-64 with 4-level paging, this function will not be called more
than 64 times in a systems runtime (because vmalloc-space takes 64 PGD
entries which are only populated, but never cleared).

As a side effect this also allows to get rid of vmalloc faults on x86,
making it safe to touch vmalloc'ed memory in the page-fault handler.
Note that this potentially includes per-cpu memory.

This patch (of 7):

Add page-table allocation functions which will keep track of changed
directory entries.  They are needed for new PGD, P4D, PUD, and PMD
entries and will be used in vmalloc and ioremap code to decide whether
any changes in the kernel mappings need to be synchronized between
page-tables in the system.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515140023.25469-1-joro@8bytes.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515140023.25469-2-joro@8bytes.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/5level-fixup.h b/include/asm-generic/5level-fixup.h
index 4c74b1c1d13b..58046ddc08d0 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/5level-fixup.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/5level-fixup.h
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
 	((unlikely(pgd_none(*(p4d))) && __pud_alloc(mm, p4d, address)) ? \
 		NULL : pud_offset(p4d, address))
 
-#define p4d_alloc(mm, pgd, address)	(pgd)
-#define p4d_offset(pgd, start)		(pgd)
+#define p4d_alloc(mm, pgd, address)		(pgd)
+#define p4d_alloc_track(mm, pgd, address, mask)	(pgd)
+#define p4d_offset(pgd, start)			(pgd)
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 static inline int p4d_none(p4d_t p4d)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 8c5f9c29698b..db7df7daa0d8 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -1213,6 +1213,29 @@ static inline bool arch_has_pfn_modify_check(void)
 # define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC PAGE_KERNEL
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Page Table Modification bits for pgtbl_mod_mask.
+ *
+ * These are used by the p?d_alloc_track*() set of functions an in the generic
+ * vmalloc/ioremap code to track at which page-table levels entries have been
+ * modified. Based on that the code can better decide when vmalloc and ioremap
+ * mapping changes need to be synchronized to other page-tables in the system.
+ */
+#define		__PGTBL_PGD_MODIFIED	0
+#define		__PGTBL_P4D_MODIFIED	1
+#define		__PGTBL_PUD_MODIFIED	2
+#define		__PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED	3
+#define		__PGTBL_PTE_MODIFIED	4
+
+#define		PGTBL_PGD_MODIFIED	BIT(__PGTBL_PGD_MODIFIED)
+#define		PGTBL_P4D_MODIFIED	BIT(__PGTBL_P4D_MODIFIED)
+#define		PGTBL_PUD_MODIFIED	BIT(__PGTBL_PUD_MODIFIED)
+#define		PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED	BIT(__PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED)
+#define		PGTBL_PTE_MODIFIED	BIT(__PGTBL_PTE_MODIFIED)
+
+/* Page-Table Modification Mask */
+typedef unsigned int pgtbl_mod_mask;
+
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #ifndef io_remap_pfn_range