On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 04:52:28PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 03:58:29PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > > On 07/11/2017 10:05 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > >>> Can use your Signed-off-by for a [cleaned up version of your] patch? > > >> > > >> Sure. > > > > > > Another KASAN-releated issue: dumping page tables for KASAN shadow memory > > > region takes unreasonable time due to kasan_zero_p?? mapped there. > > > > > > The patch below helps. Any objections? > > > > > > > Well, page tables dump doesn't work at all on 5-level paging. > > E.g. I've got this nonsense: > > > > .... > > ---[ Kernel Space ]--- > > 0xffff800000000000-0xffff808000000000 512G pud > > ---[ Low Kernel Mapping ]--- > > 0xffff808000000000-0xffff810000000000 512G pud > > ---[ vmalloc() Area ]--- > > 0xffff810000000000-0xffff818000000000 512G pud > > ---[ Vmemmap ]--- > > 0xffff818000000000-0xffffff0000000000 128512G pud > > ---[ ESPfix Area ]--- > > 0xffffff0000000000-0x0000000000000000 1T pud > > 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000000 0E pgd > > 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000001000 4K RW PCD GLB NX pte > > 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000002000 4K pte > > 0x0000000000002000-0x0000000000003000 4K ro GLB NX pte > > 0x0000000000003000-0x0000000000004000 4K pte > > 0x0000000000004000-0x0000000000007000 12K RW GLB NX pte > > 0x0000000000007000-0x0000000000008000 4K pte > > 0x0000000000008000-0x0000000000108000 1M RW GLB NX pte > > 0x0000000000108000-0x0000000000109000 4K pte > > 0x0000000000109000-0x0000000000189000 512K RW GLB NX pte > > 0x0000000000189000-0x000000000018a000 4K pte > > 0x000000000018a000-0x000000000018e000 16K RW GLB NX pte > > 0x000000000018e000-0x000000000018f000 4K pte > > 0x000000000018f000-0x0000000000193000 16K RW GLB NX pte > > 0x0000000000193000-0x0000000000194000 4K pte > > ... 304 entries skipped ... > > ---[ EFI Runtime Services ]--- > > 0xffffffef00000000-0xffffffff80000000 66G pud > > ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]--- > > 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffc0000000 1G pud > > ... > > Hm. I don't see this: > > ... > [ 0.247532] 0xff9e938000000000-0xff9f000000000000 111104G p4d > [ 0.247733] 0xff9f000000000000-0xffff000000000000 24P pgd > [ 0.248066] 0xffff000000000000-0xffffff0000000000 255T p4d > [ 0.248290] ---[ ESPfix Area ]--- > [ 0.248393] 0xffffff0000000000-0xffffff8000000000 512G p4d > [ 0.248663] 0xffffff8000000000-0xffffffef00000000 444G pud > [ 0.248892] ---[ EFI Runtime Services ]--- > [ 0.248996] 0xffffffef00000000-0xfffffffec0000000 63G pud > [ 0.249308] 0xfffffffec0000000-0xfffffffefe400000 996M pmd > ... > > Do you have commit "x86/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization" > in your tree? > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kas/linux.git/commit/?h=la57/boot-switching/v2&id=13327fec85ffe95d9c8a3f57ba174bf5d5c1fb01 > > > As for KASAN, I think it would be better just to make it work faster, > > the patch below demonstrates the idea. > > Okay, let me test this. The patch works for me. The problem is not exclusive to 5-level paging, so could you prepare and push proper patch upstream? -- Kirill A. Shutemov
