Re: [PATCH V5 0/7] 52-bit userspace VAs

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi Will,

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 07:34:46PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:50:35PM +0000, Steve Capper wrote:
> > This patch series brings support for 52-bit userspace VAs to systems that
> > have ARMv8.2-LVA and are running with a 48-bit VA_BITS and a 64KB
> > PAGE_SIZE.
> > 
> > If no hardware support is present, the kernel runs with a 48-bit VA space
> > for userspace.
> > 
> > Userspace can exploit this feature by providing an address hint to mmap
> > where addr[51:48] != 0. Otherwise all the VA mappings will behave in the
> > same way as a 48-bit VA system (this is to maintain compatibility with
> > software that assumes the maximum VA size on arm64 is 48-bit).
> > 
> > This patch series applies to 4.20-rc1.
> > 
> > Testing was in a model with Trusted Firmware and UEFI for boot.
> > 
> > Changed in V5, ttbr1 offsetting code simplified. Extra patch added to
> > check for VA space support mismatch between CPUs.
> 
> I was all ready to push this out, but I spotted a build failure with
> allmodconfig because TASK_SIZE refers to the non-EXPORTed symbol
> vabits_user:
> 
> ERROR: "vabits_user" [lib/test_user_copy.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "vabits_user" [drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "vabits_user" [drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko] undefined!

Apologies for that, I'll be more careful with modules in future.

> 
> So I've pushed an extra patch on top to fix that by exporting the symbol.
> 

Thanks!

Cheers,
-- 
Steve





[Index of Archives]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Linux Omap]     [Fedora ARM]     [IETF Annouce]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux OMAP]     [Linux MIPS]     [eCos]     [Asterisk Internet PBX]     [Linux API]

  Powered by Linux