Re: [PATCH v6 08/12] s390/mm: Clear skeys for newly mapped huge guest pmds

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On 13.07.2018 13:58, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 13.07.2018 12:09, Janosch Frank wrote:
>> On 13.07.2018 10:53, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 13.07.2018 08:36, Janosch Frank wrote:
>>>> Similarly to the pte skey handling, where we set the storage key to
>>>> the default key for each newly mapped pte, we have to also do that for
>>>> huge pmds.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>  arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>>>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
>>>> index c393a6b0f362..6550ed56fcdf 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
>>>> @@ -410,14 +410,34 @@ static inline pmd_t pmdp_flush_lazy(struct mm_struct *mm,
>>>>  	return old;
>>>>  }
>>>>  
>>>> +static void pmdp_clear_skeys(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t new)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	unsigned long paddr = pmd_val(new) & HPAGE_MASK;
>>>> +
>>>> +	/*
>>>> +	 * After a guest has used the first storage key instruction,
>>>> +	 * we must ensure, that each newly mapped huge pmd has all
>>>> +	 * skeys cleared before mapping it.
>>>> +	 */
>>>> +	if (!mm_uses_skeys(mm) ||
>>>> +	    !pmd_none(*pmdp) ||
>>>> +	    !pmd_large(new) ||
>>>> +	    (pmd_val(new) & _SEGMENT_ENTRY_INVALID))
>>>> +		return;
>>>> +
>>>> +	__storage_key_init_range(paddr, paddr + HPAGE_SIZE - 1);
>>>
>>> I am by far not an expert on this :)
>>>
>>> I wonder if it could happen that we zero-over already used keys (e.g.
>>> changing protection of a pmd entry ?). I hope Martin can review this one.
>>
>> Thats why the old entry has to be pmd_none.
>> But yes, I already pre-warned Martin.
> 
> So this should also hold for THP I assume? (replacing page tables by PMD
> and the other way around).

It might not catch a merge of a page table where not all ptes are set to
!pte_none but that depends on the thp implementation..

> 
>>
>>>
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>>  pmd_t pmdp_xchg_direct(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>>>>  		       pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t new)
>>>>  {
>>>>  	pmd_t old;
>>>>  
>>>>  	preempt_disable();
>>>> -	if (mm_has_pgste(mm))
>>>> +	if (mm_has_pgste(mm)) {
>>>> +		pmdp_clear_skeys(mm, pmdp, new);
>>>>  		pmdp_notify(mm, addr);
>>>
>>> I wonder if mm_has_pgste(mm) is the right to check for here. AFAICS,
>>> s390_enable_skey() does not really rely on PGSTE to be around
>>> ("theoretically" in contrast to pgste_set_key()).
>>>
>>> Shouldn't this rather be
>>
>> mm_has_pgste is unfortunately something of a combination of mm_has_guest
>> and mm_allocates_4k_tables. I already looked into making that clear, but
>> it's a tangled mess right now considering ucontrol, the TIF bit and the
>> sysctl.
>>
>> We have to test against the pgstes, as we absolutely do not want to take
>> the performance impact on non-guest systems (sysctl) or non-guest
>> processes (TIF).
> 
> Agreed that that should be cleaned up in the future.
> 
> 




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