Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/2] mm: Introduce ADDR_LIMIT_47BIT personality flag

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On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 5:16 AM Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Some applications rely on placing data in free bits addresses allocated
> by mmap. Various architectures (eg. x86, arm64, powerpc) restrict the
> address returned by mmap to be less than the 48-bit address space,
> unless the hint address uses more than 47 bits (the 48th bit is reserved
> for the kernel address space).
>
> The riscv architecture needs a way to similarly restrict the virtual
> address space. On the riscv port of OpenJDK an error is thrown if
> attempted to run on the 57-bit address space, called sv57 [1].  golang
> has a comment that sv57 support is not complete, but there are some
> workarounds to get it to mostly work [2].
>
> These applications work on x86 because x86 does an implicit 47-bit
> restriction of mmap() address that contain a hint address that is less
> than 48 bits.
>
> Instead of implicitly restricting the address space on riscv (or any
> current/future architecture), provide a flag to the personality syscall
> that can be used to ensure an application works in any arbitrary VA
> space. A similar feature has already been implemented by the personality
> syscall in ADDR_LIMIT_32BIT.
>
> This flag will also allow seemless compatibility between all
> architectures, so applications like Go and OpenJDK that use bits in a
> virtual address can request the exact number of bits they need in a
> generic way. The flag can be checked inside of vm_unmapped_area() so
> that this flag does not have to be handled individually by each
> architecture.
Acked-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sv57's pain finds its cure in this antidote.

>
> Link:
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/f080b4bb8a75284db1b6037f8c00ef3b1ef1add1/src/hotspot/cpu/riscv/vm_version_riscv.cpp#L79
> [1]
> Link:
> https://github.com/golang/go/blob/9e8ea567c838574a0f14538c0bbbd83c3215aa55/src/runtime/tagptr_64bit.go#L47
> [2]
>
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> Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Added much greater detail to cover letter
> - Removed all code that touched architecture specific code and was able
>   to factor this out into all generic functions, except for flags that
>   needed to be added to vm_unmapped_area_info
> - Made this an RFC since I have only tested it on riscv and x86
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240827-patches-below_hint_mmap-v1-0-46ff2eb9022d@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Use a personality flag instead of an mmap flag
> - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829-patches-below_hint_mmap-v2-0-638a28d9eae0@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> ---
> Charlie Jenkins (2):
>       mm: Add personality flag to limit address to 47 bits
>       selftests/mm: Create ADDR_LIMIT_47BIT test
>
>  include/uapi/linux/personality.h                   |  1 +
>  mm/mmap.c                                          |  3 ++
>  tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore              |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile                |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/mm/map_47bit_personality.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
> ---
> base-commit: 5be63fc19fcaa4c236b307420483578a56986a37
> change-id: 20240827-patches-below_hint_mmap-b13d79ae1c55
> --
> - Charlie
>


-- 
Best Regards
 Guo Ren





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