kernel/arch/ia64/include/asm/pgtable.h, branch linux-rolling-stable

arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture

2023-09-11T08:13:17Z

The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some distro packages that are rarely used in practice. None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as 'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2 reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have dropped support years ago. While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64 could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case. There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64 but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64 be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead of keeping it supported is real. So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely. This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5], which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow once the kernel support is removed. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/ [2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html [3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/ [5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/ Acked-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

Merge tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2023-08-31T19:20:12Z

Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen: "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET). CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack part of this feature, and just for userspace. The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction, the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy. For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier versions of this patch set" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/ * tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits) x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support ...

ia64: implement the new page table range API

2023-08-24T23:20:21Z

Add PFN_PTE_SHIFT, update_mmu_cache_range() and flush_dcache_folio(). Change the PG_arch_1 (aka PG_dcache_clean) flag from being per-page to per-folio, which makes arch_dma_mark_clean() and mark_clean() a little more exciting. [willy@infradead.org: fix folio_size() handling] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZNPlOCe8F+nrzPxr@casper.infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-14-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: Rename arch pte_mkwrite()'s to pte_mkwrite_novma()

2023-07-11T21:10:56Z

The x86 Shadow stack feature includes a new type of memory called shadow stack. This shadow stack memory has some unusual properties, which requires some core mm changes to function properly. One of these unusual properties is that shadow stack memory is writable, but only in limited ways. These limits are applied via a specific PTE bit combination. Nevertheless, the memory is writable, and core mm code will need to apply the writable permissions in the typical paths that call pte_mkwrite(). The goal is to make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA, so that the x86 implementation of it can know whether to create regular writable or shadow stack mappings. But there are a couple of challenges to this. Modifying the signatures of each arch pte_mkwrite() implementation would be error prone because some are generated with macros and would need to be re-implemented. Also, some pte_mkwrite() callers operate on kernel memory without a VMA. So this can be done in a three step process. First pte_mkwrite() can be renamed to pte_mkwrite_novma() in each arch, with a generic pte_mkwrite() added that just calls pte_mkwrite_novma(). Next callers without a VMA can be moved to pte_mkwrite_novma(). And lastly, pte_mkwrite() and all callers can be changed to take/pass a VMA. Start the process by renaming pte_mkwrite() to pte_mkwrite_novma() and adding the pte_mkwrite() wrapper in linux/pgtable.h. Apply the same pattern for pmd_mkwrite(). Since not all archs have a pmd_mkwrite_novma(), create a new arch config HAS_HUGE_PAGE that can be used to tell if pmd_mkwrite() should be defined. Otherwise in the !HAS_HUGE_PAGE cases the compiler would not be able to find pmd_mkwrite_novma(). No functional change. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiZjSu7c9sFYZb3q04108stgHff2wfbokGCCgW7riz+8Q@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-2-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com

mm: remove __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE

2023-02-03T06:33:11Z

__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE is now supported by all architectures that support swp PTEs, so let's drop it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230113171026.582290-27-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ia64/mm: support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE

2023-02-03T06:33:07Z

Let's support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE by stealing one bit from the type. Generic MM currently only uses 5 bits for the type (MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT), so the stolen bit is effectively unused. While at it, also mask the type in __swp_entry(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230113171026.582290-8-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: remove kern_addr_valid() completely

2022-11-09T01:37:18Z

Most architectures (except arm64/x86/sparc) simply return 1 for kern_addr_valid(), which is only used in read_kcore(), and it calls copy_from_kernel_nofault() which could check whether the address is a valid kernel address. So as there is no need for kern_addr_valid(), let's remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221018074014.185687-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven [m68k] Acked-by: Heiko Carstens [s390] Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Helge Deller [parisc] Acked-by: Michael Ellerman [powerpc] Acked-by: Guo Ren [csky] Acked-by: Catalin Marinas [arm64] Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xuerui Wang Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ia64/mm: enable ARCH_HAS_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT

2022-07-18T00:14:40Z

This enables ARCH_HAS_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT on the platform and exports standard vm_get_page_prot() implementation via DECLARE_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT, which looks up a private and static protection_map[] array. Subsequently all __SXXX and __PXXX macros can be dropped which are no longer needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711070600.2378316-20-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russell King Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch: Add pmd_pfn() where it is missing

2022-03-21T16:59:02Z

We need to use this function in common code, so define it for architectures and/or configrations that miss it. The result of pmd_pfn() will only be used if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is enabled, but a function or macro called pmd_pfn() must be defined, even on machines with two level page tables. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)

mm: rename p4d_page_vaddr to p4d_pgtable and make it return pud_t *

2021-07-08T18:48:22Z

No functional change in this patch. [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: m68k build error reported by kernel robot] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87tulxnb2v.fsf@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210615110859.320299-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/CAHk-=wi+J+iodze9FtjM3Zi4j4OeS+qqbKxME9QN4roxPEXH9Q@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Kalesh Singh Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds