Re: [PATCH v12 0/6] implement getrandom() in vDSO

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Hi Jason,

Le 12/12/2022 à 19:53, Jason A. Donenfeld a écrit :
> Changes v11->v12:
> ----------------
> - In order to avoid mlock()ing pages, and the related rlimit and fork
>    inheritance issues there, Introduce VM_DROPPABLE to prevent swapping
>    while meeting the cache-like requirements of vDSO getrandom().
> 
>    This has some tenticles in mm/ and arch/x86/ code, so I've marked the
>    two patches for that as still RFC, while the rest of the series is not
>    RFC.
> 
> - Mandate that opaque state blobs don't straddle page boundaries, so
>    that VM_DROPPABLE can work on page-level granularity rather than
>    allocation-level granularity.
> 
> - Add compiler barriers to vDSO getrandom() to prevent theoretical
>    reordering potential.
> 
> - Initialize the trials loop counter in the chacha test.

I would have liked to give it a try on powerpc, but the series 
conflicts. I tried both on v6.1 and on linus/master from now:

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$ LANG= git reset --hard linus/master
HEAD is now at b6bb9676f216 Merge tag 'm68knommu-for-v6.2' of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu

$ LANG= git am -3 ~/Téléchargements/implement-getrandom-in-vDSO.patch
Applying: mm: add VM_DROPPABLE for designating always lazily freeable 
mappings
Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...
M	fs/proc/task_mmu.c
M	include/linux/mm.h
M	include/trace/events/mmflags.h
M	mm/Kconfig
M	mm/memory.c
M	mm/mprotect.c
M	mm/rmap.c
Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge...
Auto-merging mm/rmap.c
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in mm/rmap.c
Auto-merging mm/mprotect.c
Auto-merging mm/memory.c
Auto-merging mm/Kconfig
Auto-merging include/trace/events/mmflags.h
Auto-merging include/linux/mm.h
Auto-merging fs/proc/task_mmu.c
error: Failed to merge in the changes.
Patch failed at 0001 mm: add VM_DROPPABLE for designating always lazily 
freeable mappings
hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch=diff' to see the failed patch
When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue".
If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.
To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
[chleroy@PO20335 linux-powerpc]$ git diff
diff --cc mm/rmap.c
index b616870a09be,9fabd7affd3a..000000000000
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@@ -1291,16 -1256,13 +1291,22 @@@ void page_add_anon_rmap(struct page *pa
   void page_add_new_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
         struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
   {
  -      const bool compound = PageCompound(page);
  -      int nr = compound ? thp_nr_pages(page) : 1;
  +      int nr;

         VM_BUG_ON_VMA(address < vma->vm_start || address >= 
vma->vm_end, vma);
++<<<<<<< HEAD
  +      __SetPageSwapBacked(page);
  +
  +      if (likely(!PageCompound(page))) {
  +              /* increment count (starts at -1) */
  +              atomic_set(&page->_mapcount, 0);
  +              nr = 1;
  +      } else {
++=======
+       if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_DROPPABLE))
+               __SetPageSwapBacked(page);
+       if (compound) {
++>>>>>>> mm: add VM_DROPPABLE for designating always lazily freeable 
mappings
                 VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTransHuge(page), page);
                 /* increment count (starts at -1) */
                 atomic_set(compound_mapcount_ptr(page), 0);

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$ LANG= git reset --hard v6.1
Updating files: 100% (12634/12634), done.
HEAD is now at 830b3c68c1fb Linux 6.1

$ LANG= git am -3 ~/Téléchargements/implement-getrandom-in-vDSO.patch
Applying: mm: add VM_DROPPABLE for designating always lazily freeable 
mappings
Applying: x86: mm: Skip faulting instruction for VM_DROPPABLE faults
Applying: random: add vgetrandom_alloc() syscall
Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...
M	MAINTAINERS
M	drivers/char/random.c
Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge...
Auto-merging drivers/char/random.c
Auto-merging MAINTAINERS
Applying: arch: allocate vgetrandom_alloc() syscall number
Applying: random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation
Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...
M	MAINTAINERS
M	drivers/char/random.c
Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge...
Auto-merging drivers/char/random.c
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in drivers/char/random.c
Auto-merging MAINTAINERS
error: Failed to merge in the changes.
Patch failed at 0005 random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() 
implementation
hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch=diff' to see the failed patch
When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue".
If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.
To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".

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Christophe




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