On Mon, 02 Oct 2023 08:10:26 PDT (-0700), alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
This series is a follow-up for riscv of a recent series from Ryan [1] which converts all direct dereferences of pte_t into a ptet_get() access. The goal here for riscv is to use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for all page table entries accesses to avoid any compiler transformation when the hardware can concurrently modify the page tables entries (A/D bits for example). I went a bit further and added pud/p4d/pgd_get() helpers as such concurrent modifications can happen too at those levels. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230612151545.3317766-1-ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx/ Alexandre Ghiti (5): riscv: Use WRITE_ONCE() when setting page table entries mm: Introduce pudp/p4dp/pgdp_get() functions riscv: mm: Only compile pgtable.c if MMU riscv: Suffix all page table entry pointers with 'p' riscv: Use accessors to page table entries instead of direct dereference arch/riscv/include/asm/kfence.h | 6 +- arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +- arch/riscv/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 86 ++++++++++---------- arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-64.h | 26 +++--- arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 33 ++------ arch/riscv/kernel/efi.c | 2 +- arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c | 44 +++++----- arch/riscv/mm/Makefile | 3 +- arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 38 ++++----- arch/riscv/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 80 +++++++++---------- arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 30 +++---- arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c | 119 ++++++++++++++-------------- arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c | 74 +++++++++-------- arch/riscv/mm/pgtable.c | 71 +++++++++++------ include/linux/pgtable.h | 21 +++++ 15 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 301 deletions(-)
This has some build failures, I was just talking to Alex and he's going to fix them.
