In order to be able to have tight control over which code may execute
from the early 1:1 mapping of memory, but still link vmlinux as a single
executable, prefix all symbol references in startup code with __pi_, and
invoke it from outside using the __pi_ prefix.
Use objtool to check that no absolute symbol references are present in
the startup code, as these cannot be used from code running from the 1:1
mapping.
Note that this also requires disabling the latent-entropy GCC plugin, as
the global symbol references that it injects would require explicit
exports, and given that the startup code rarely executes more than once,
it is not a useful source of entropy anyway.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250828102202.1849035-43-ardb+git@google.com
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
this.
- "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
and better prepare us for future work.
- "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
block size.
- "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
memory consumption was dramatic.
- "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
this part of our swap handling code.
- "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
arguments, and syscall return value.
This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
branch, but I goofed.
- "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
at the info about guard regions.
- "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.
- "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
using more current facilities.
- "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
enabled for ARM.
- "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
it already is for user pgtables.
This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
to protect page tables". This change does result in various
architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
it is anticipated to occur.
- "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.
- "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
been missing for 15 years.
- "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.
Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
load this particular operation.
- "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
preallocation.
stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
reduced.
- "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.
- ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.
- "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
for memory tiering.
- "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
found via code inspection.
- "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
settings to violated.
This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
certain classes of memory more consistently.
- "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.
- "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.
- "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.
This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
rather than file-backed folios.
- "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.
- "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
ranges of invalid pfns.
- "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.
Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.
- "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
using JFS.
- "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
appropriate mm/vma.c.
- "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
function.
- "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.
- "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
test_memcontrol selftest.
- "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().
The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.
- "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.
This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.
- "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
documents.
- "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.
- "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
hugetlb code.
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
mm: pcp: increase pcp->free_count threshold to trigger free_high
mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
...
While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with UAPI headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on
the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now.
This is mostly a mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i"
statement), with some manual tweaks in <asm/frame.h>, <asm/hw_irq.h>
and <asm/setup.h> that mentioned this macro in comments with some
missing underscores.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-38-thuth@redhat.com
Move the following sysctl tables into arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:
panic_on_{unrecoverable_nmi,io_nmi}
bootloader_{type,version}
io_delay_type
unknown_nmi_panic
acpi_realmode_flags
Variables moved from include/linux/ to arch/x86/include/asm/ because there
is no longer need for them outside arch/x86/kernel:
acpi_realmode_flags
panic_on_{unrecoverable_nmi,io_nmi}
Include <asm/nmi.h> in arch/s86/kernel/setup.h in order to bring in
panic_on_{io_nmi,unrecovered_nmi}.
This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kerenel/sysctl.c.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250218-jag-mv_ctltables-v1-8-cd3698ab8d29@kernel.org
Implicit absolute symbol references (e.g., taking the address of a
global variable) must be avoided in the C code that runs from the early
1:1 mapping of the kernel, given that this is a practice that violates
assumptions on the part of the toolchain. I.e., RIP-relative and
absolute references are expected to produce the same values, and so the
compiler is free to choose either. However, the code currently assumes
that RIP-relative references are never emitted here.
So an explicit virtual-to-physical offset needs to be used instead to
derive the kernel virtual addresses of _text and _end, instead of simply
taking the addresses and assuming that the compiler will not choose to
use a RIP-relative references in this particular case.
Currently, phys_base is already used to perform such calculations, but
it is derived from the kernel virtual address of _text, which is taken
using an implicit absolute symbol reference. So instead, derive this
VA-to-PA offset in asm code, and pass it to the C startup code.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241205112804.3416920-11-ardb+git@google.com
Commit
4faa0e5d6d ("x86/boot: Move kernel cmdline setup earlier in the boot process (again)")
fixed and issue where cmdline parsing would happen before the final
boot_command_line string has been built from the builtin and boot
cmdlines and thus cmdline arguments would get lost.
Add a check to catch any future wrong use ordering so that such issues
can be caught in time.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240409152541.GCZhVd9XIPXyTNd9vc@fat_crate.local
There are two code paths in the startup code to program an IDT: one that
runs from the 1:1 mapping and one that runs from the virtual kernel
mapping. Currently, these are strictly separate because fixup_pointer()
is used on the 1:1 path, which will produce the wrong value when used
while executing from the virtual kernel mapping.
Switch to RIP_REL_REF() so that the two code paths can be merged. Also,
move the GDT and IDT descriptors to the stack so that they can be
referenced directly, rather than via RIP_REL_REF().
Rename startup_64_setup_env() to startup_64_setup_gdt_idt() while at it,
to make the call from assembler self-documenting.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221113506.2565718-19-ardb+git@google.com
With binutils 2.26, RESERVE_BRK() causes a build failure:
/tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: missing ')'
/tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: missing ')'
/tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: missing ')'
/tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized
character is `U'
The problem is this line:
RESERVE_BRK(early_pgt_alloc, INIT_PGT_BUF_SIZE)
Specifically, the INIT_PGT_BUF_SIZE macro which (via PAGE_SIZE's use
_AC()) has a "1UL", which makes older versions of the assembler unhappy.
Unfortunately the _AC() macro doesn't work for inline asm.
Inline asm was only needed here to convince the toolchain to add the
STT_NOBITS flag. However, if a C variable is placed in a section whose
name is prefixed with ".bss", GCC and Clang automatically set
STT_NOBITS. In fact, ".bss..page_aligned" already relies on this trick.
So fix the build failure (and simplify the macro) by allocating the
variable in C.
Also, add NOLOAD to the ".brk" output section clause in the linker
script. This is a failsafe in case the ".bss" prefix magic trick ever
stops working somehow. If there's a section type mismatch, the GNU
linker will force the ".brk" output section to be STT_NOBITS. The LLVM
linker will fail with a "section type mismatch" error.
Note this also changes the name of the variable from .brk.##name to
__brk_##name. The variable names aren't actually used anywhere, so it's
harmless.
Fixes: a1e2c031ec ("x86/mm: Simplify RESERVE_BRK()")
Reported-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Reported-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/22d07a44c80d8e8e1e82b9a806ddc8c6bbb2606e.1654759036.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Pull x86 asm updates from Borislav Petkov:
- A bunch of changes towards streamlining low level asm helpers'
calling conventions so that former can be converted to C eventually
- Simplify PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS so that it can be used at the system
call entry paths instead of having opencoded, slightly different
variants of it everywhere
- Misc other fixes
* tag 'x86_asm_for_v5.19_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/entry: Fix register corruption in compat syscall
objtool: Fix STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD reloc type
linkage: Fix issue with missing symbol size
x86/entry: Remove skip_r11rcx
x86/entry: Use PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS for compat
x86/entry: Simplify entry_INT80_compat()
x86/mm: Simplify RESERVE_BRK()
x86/entry: Convert SWAPGS to swapgs and remove the definition of SWAPGS
x86/entry: Don't call error_entry() for XENPV
x86/entry: Move CLD to the start of the idtentry macro
x86/entry: Move PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS out of error_entry()
x86/entry: Switch the stack after error_entry() returns
x86/traps: Use pt_regs directly in fixup_bad_iret()
RESERVE_BRK() reserves data in the .brk_reservation section. The data
is initialized to zero, like BSS, so the macro specifies 'nobits' to
prevent the data from taking up space in the vmlinux binary. The only
way to get the compiler to do that (without putting the variable in .bss
proper) is to use inline asm.
The macro also has a hack which encloses the inline asm in a discarded
function, which allows the size to be passed (global inline asm doesn't
allow inputs).
Remove the need for the discarded function hack by just stringifying the
size rather than supplying it as an input to the inline asm.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220506121631.133110232@infradead.org
Due to
103a4908ad ("x86/head/64: Disable stack protection for head$(BITS).o")
kernel/head{32,64}.c are compiled with -fno-stack-protector to allow
a call to set_bringup_idt_handler(), which would otherwise have stack
protection enabled with CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG.
While sufficient for that case, there may still be issues with calls to
any external functions that were compiled with stack protection enabled
that in-turn make stack-protected calls, or if the exception handlers
set up by set_bringup_idt_handler() make calls to stack-protected
functions.
Subsequent patches for SEV-SNP CPUID validation support will introduce
both such cases. Attempting to disable stack protection for everything
in scope to address that is prohibitive since much of the code, like the
SEV-ES #VC handler, is shared code that remains in use after boot and
could benefit from having stack protection enabled. Attempting to inline
calls is brittle and can quickly balloon out to library/helper code
where that's not really an option.
Instead, re-enable stack protection for head32.c/head64.c, and make the
appropriate changes to ensure the segment used for the stack canary is
initialized in advance of any stack-protected C calls.
For head64.c:
- The BSP will enter from startup_64() and call into C code
(startup_64_setup_env()) shortly after setting up the stack, which
may result in calls to stack-protected code. Set up %gs early to allow
for this safely.
- APs will enter from secondary_startup_64*(), and %gs will be set up
soon after. There is one call to C code prior to %gs being setup
(__startup_secondary_64()), but it is only to fetch 'sme_me_mask'
global, so just load 'sme_me_mask' directly instead, and remove the
now-unused __startup_secondary_64() function.
For head32.c:
- BSPs/APs will set %fs to __BOOT_DS prior to any C calls. In recent
kernels, the compiler is configured to access the stack canary at
%fs:__stack_chk_guard [1], which overlaps with the initial per-cpu
'__stack_chk_guard' variable in the initial/"master" .data..percpu
area. This is sufficient to allow access to the canary for use
during initial startup, so no changes are needed there.
[1] 3fb0fdb3bb ("x86/stackprotector/32: Make the canary into a regular percpu variable")
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Suggested-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> #for 64-bit %gs set up
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220307213356.2797205-24-brijesh.singh@amd.com
Move the assembly coded dispatch between page-faults and all other
exceptions to C code to make it easier to maintain and extend.
Also change the return-type of early_make_pgtable() to bool and make it
static.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907131613.12703-36-joro@8bytes.org
Add a separate bringup IDT for the CPU bringup code that will be used
until the kernel switches to the idt_table. There are two reasons for a
separate IDT:
1) When the idt_table is set up and the secondary CPUs are
booted, it contains entries (e.g. IST entries) which
require certain CPU state to be set up. This includes a
working TSS (for IST), MSR_GS_BASE (for stack protector) or
CR4.FSGSBASE (for paranoid_entry) path. By using a
dedicated IDT for early boot this state need not to be set
up early.
2) The idt_table is static to idt.c, so any function
using/modifying must be in idt.c too. That means that all
compiler driven instrumentation like tracing or KASAN is
also active in this code. But during early CPU bringup the
environment is not set up for this instrumentation to work
correctly.
To avoid all of these hassles and make early exception handling robust,
use a dedicated bringup IDT.
The IDT is loaded two times, first on the boot CPU while the kernel is
still running on direct mapped addresses, and again later after the
switch to kernel addresses has happened. The second IDT load happens on
the boot and secondary CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907131613.12703-34-joro@8bytes.org
