* [PATCH v3 0/2] arm64: refactor the rodata=xxx
@ 2024-12-09 7:20 Huang Shijie
2024-12-09 7:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Huang Shijie
2024-12-09 7:20 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: remove CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED Huang Shijie
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From: Huang Shijie @ 2024-12-09 7:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: catalin.marinas, will, anshuman.khandual, corbet
Cc: patches, cl, akpm, thuth, rostedt, xiongwei.song, ardb, inux-doc,
linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel, Huang Shijie
From Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, we know that:
rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
[arm64]
So the "rodata=on" is the default.
But the current code does not follow the document, it makes "rodata=full"
as the default.
This patch set follows Anshuman Khandual's suggetions.
It makes the "rodata=on" as the default, and removes the CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
v3:
Follows Anshuman Khandual's suggetions:
- Merge patch 1 and patch 3 into one patch.
- Remove patch 4
- update comments and document.
v2:
Follows Will's suggetions.
Add a new file fine-tuning-tips.rst for the expert users.
https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2024-November/981190.html
v1:
https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2024-October/971415.html
Huang Shijie (2):
arm64: refactor the rodata=xxx
arm64: remove CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 14 -----------
arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++--
arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
--
2.40.1
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* [PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: refactor the rodata=xxx
2024-12-09 7:20 [PATCH v3 0/2] arm64: refactor the rodata=xxx Huang Shijie
@ 2024-12-09 7:20 ` Huang Shijie
2024-12-09 17:05 ` Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
2024-12-10 7:17 ` Anshuman Khandual
2024-12-09 7:20 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: remove CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED Huang Shijie
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From: Huang Shijie @ 2024-12-09 7:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: catalin.marinas, will, anshuman.khandual, corbet
Cc: patches, cl, akpm, thuth, rostedt, xiongwei.song, ardb, inux-doc,
linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel, Huang Shijie
From Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt:
rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
So "rodata=on" is the default.
But the current code does not follow the document, it makes "rodata=full"
as the default.
This patch refactors the "rodata=xxx" :
1.) Make rodata=on behaviour be the original rodata=full.
(Drop the original rodata=full.)
2.) Introduce "rodata=noalias" which is the original "rodata=on"
3.) Add more comment for arch_parse_debug_rodata(),
update kernel-parameters.txt.
After this patch, the rodata=on will be the default.
Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie@os.amperecomputing.com>
---
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index a22b7e621007..51bce7b9d805 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -5901,7 +5901,7 @@
rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
- full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
+ noalias Use more block mappings,may have better performance.
[arm64]
rockchip.usb_uart
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
index ba269a7a3201..b3063326b79a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -13,6 +13,27 @@
extern phys_addr_t __fdt_pointer __initdata;
extern u64 __cacheline_aligned boot_args[4];
+/*
+ * rodata=on (default):
+ * Apply read-only attributes of VM areas to the linear alias of
+ * the backing pages as well. This prevents code or read-only data
+ * from being modified (inadvertently or intentionally) via another
+ * mapping of the same memory page.
+ *
+ * This requires the linear region to be mapped down to pages,
+ * which may adversely affect performance in some cases.
+ *
+ * rodata=off:
+ * It provides us more block mappings and contiguous hits
+ * to map the linear region which minimize the TLB footprint.
+ * Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
+ *
+ * rodata=noalias:
+ * It provides us more block mappings and contiguous hits
+ * to map the linear region which minimize the TLB footprint.
+ * And the linear aliases of pages belonging to read-only mappings
+ * in vmalloc region are also marked as read-only.
+ */
static inline bool arch_parse_debug_rodata(char *arg)
{
extern bool rodata_enabled;
@@ -21,7 +42,7 @@ static inline bool arch_parse_debug_rodata(char *arg)
if (!arg)
return false;
- if (!strcmp(arg, "full")) {
+ if (!strcmp(arg, "on")) {
rodata_enabled = rodata_full = true;
return true;
}
@@ -31,7 +52,7 @@ static inline bool arch_parse_debug_rodata(char *arg)
return true;
}
- if (!strcmp(arg, "on")) {
+ if (!strcmp(arg, "noalias")) {
rodata_enabled = true;
rodata_full = false;
return true;
--
2.40.1
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* [PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: remove CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
2024-12-09 7:20 [PATCH v3 0/2] arm64: refactor the rodata=xxx Huang Shijie
2024-12-09 7:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Huang Shijie
@ 2024-12-09 7:20 ` Huang Shijie
2024-12-10 7:27 ` Anshuman Khandual
1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Huang Shijie @ 2024-12-09 7:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: catalin.marinas, will, anshuman.khandual, corbet
Cc: patches, cl, akpm, thuth, rostedt, xiongwei.song, ardb, inux-doc,
linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel, Huang Shijie
After patch "arm64: refacotr the rodata=xxx",
the "rodata=on" becomes the default.
......................................
if (!strcmp(arg, "on")) {
rodata_enabled = rodata_full = true;
return true;
}
......................................
The rodata_full is always "true" via "rodata=on" and does not
depend on the config RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED anymore,
so it can be dropped.
Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie@os.amperecomputing.com>
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 14 --------------
arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index cbfd357f94a6..1c69982302ed 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1666,20 +1666,6 @@ config MITIGATE_SPECTRE_BRANCH_HISTORY
When taking an exception from user-space, a sequence of branches
or a firmware call overwrites the branch history.
-config RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
- bool "Apply r/o permissions of VM areas also to their linear aliases"
- default y
- help
- Apply read-only attributes of VM areas to the linear alias of
- the backing pages as well. This prevents code or read-only data
- from being modified (inadvertently or intentionally) via another
- mapping of the same memory page. This additional enhancement can
- be turned off at runtime by passing rodata=[off|on] (and turned on
- with rodata=full if this option is set to 'n')
-
- This requires the linear region to be mapped down to pages,
- which may adversely affect performance in some cases.
-
config ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN
bool "Emulate Privileged Access Never using TTBR0_EL1 switching"
depends on !KCSAN
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
index 39fd1f7ff02a..6eef08d8451e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ struct page_change_data {
pgprot_t clear_mask;
};
-bool rodata_full __ro_after_init = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED);
+bool rodata_full __ro_after_init = true;
bool can_set_direct_map(void)
{
--
2.40.1
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* Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: refactor the rodata=xxx
2024-12-09 7:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Huang Shijie
@ 2024-12-09 17:05 ` Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
2024-12-10 3:22 ` Shijie Huang
2024-12-10 7:17 ` Anshuman Khandual
1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) @ 2024-12-09 17:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Huang Shijie
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, anshuman.khandual, corbet, patches, akpm,
thuth, rostedt, xiongwei.song, ardb, inux-doc, linux-kernel,
linux-arm-kernel
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, Huang Shijie wrote:
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -5901,7 +5901,7 @@
> rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
> on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
> off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
> - full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
> + noalias Use more block mappings,may have better performance.
> [arm64]
Maybe use
noalias Do not check aliases in order to allow larger kernel page
sizes on a platforms without FEAT_BBM2 support[arm64])
instead?
>
> rockchip.usb_uart
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
> index ba269a7a3201..b3063326b79a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
> @@ -13,6 +13,27 @@
> extern phys_addr_t __fdt_pointer __initdata;
> extern u64 __cacheline_aligned boot_args[4];
>
> +/*
> + * rodata=on (default):
> + * Apply read-only attributes of VM areas to the linear alias of
> + * the backing pages as well. This prevents code or read-only data
> + * from being modified (inadvertently or intentionally) via another
> + * mapping of the same memory page.
> + *
> + * This requires the linear region to be mapped down to pages,
> + * which may adversely affect performance in some cases.
> + *
> + * rodata=off:
> + * It provides us more block mappings and contiguous hits
> + * to map the linear region which minimize the TLB footprint.
> + * Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
> + *
> + * rodata=noalias:
> + * It provides us more block mappings and contiguous hits
> + * to map the linear region which minimize the TLB footprint.
> + * And the linear aliases of pages belonging to read-only mappings
> + * in vmalloc region are also marked as read-only.
> + */
> static inline bool arch_parse_debug_rodata(char *arg)
> {
> extern bool rodata_enabled;
> @@ -21,7 +42,7 @@ static inline bool arch_parse_debug_rodata(char *arg)
> if (!arg)
> return false;
>
> - if (!strcmp(arg, "full")) {
> + if (!strcmp(arg, "on")) {
> rodata_enabled = rodata_full = true;
> return true;
> }
> @@ -31,7 +52,7 @@ static inline bool arch_parse_debug_rodata(char *arg)
> return true;
> }
>
> - if (!strcmp(arg, "on")) {
> + if (!strcmp(arg, "noalias")) {
> rodata_enabled = true;
> rodata_full = false;
> return true;
>
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* Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: refactor the rodata=xxx
2024-12-09 17:05 ` Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
@ 2024-12-10 3:22 ` Shijie Huang
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From: Shijie Huang @ 2024-12-10 3:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Lameter (Ampere), Huang Shijie
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, anshuman.khandual, corbet, patches, akpm,
thuth, rostedt, xiongwei.song, ardb, inux-doc, linux-kernel,
linux-arm-kernel
On 2024/12/10 1:05, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> @@ -5901,7 +5901,7 @@
>> rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
>> on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
>> off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
>> - full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
>> + noalias Use more block mappings,may have better performance.
>> [arm64]
> Maybe use
> noalias Do not check aliases in order to allow larger kernel page
> sizes on a platforms without FEAT_BBM2 support[arm64])
>
> instead?
The "rodata=noalias" here is equal to original "rodata=on".
But Yang Shi's patch set works with original "rodata=full" :
https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2024-November/979770.html
IMHO, it's not proper to mention the FEAT_BBM in "rodata=noalias".
Thanks
Huang Shijie
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* Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: refactor the rodata=xxx
2024-12-09 7:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Huang Shijie
2024-12-09 17:05 ` Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
@ 2024-12-10 7:17 ` Anshuman Khandual
2024-12-10 7:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel
1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Anshuman Khandual @ 2024-12-10 7:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Huang Shijie, catalin.marinas, will, corbet
Cc: patches, cl, akpm, thuth, rostedt, xiongwei.song, ardb, inux-doc,
linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel
Hello Huang,
On 12/9/24 12:50, Huang Shijie wrote:
>>From Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt:
> rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
> on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
>
> So "rodata=on" is the default.
>
> But the current code does not follow the document, it makes "rodata=full"
> as the default.
>
> This patch refactors the "rodata=xxx" :
> 1.) Make rodata=on behaviour be the original rodata=full.
> (Drop the original rodata=full.)
> 2.) Introduce "rodata=noalias" which is the original "rodata=on"
> 3.) Add more comment for arch_parse_debug_rodata(),
> update kernel-parameters.txt.
>
> After this patch, the rodata=on will be the default.
Could this commit message be reworded/reformatted something like the
following instead ? Although feel free to improve this as required.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
As per admin guide documentation, "rodata=on" should be the default on
platforms. Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt describes
these options as
rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
[arm64]
But on arm64 platform, "rodata=full" is the default instead. This patch
implements the following changes.
- Make "rodata=on" behaviour same as the original "rodata=full"
- Make "rodata=noalias" (new) behaviour same as the original "rodata=on"
- Drop the original "rodata=full"
- Add comment for arch_parse_debug_rodata()
- Update kernel-parameters.txt as required
After this patch, the "rodata=on" will be the default on arm64 platform
as well.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie@os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index a22b7e621007..51bce7b9d805 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -5901,7 +5901,7 @@
> rodata= [KNL,EARLY]
> on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
> off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
> - full Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
> + noalias Use more block mappings,may have better performance.
> [arm64]
>
> rockchip.usb_uart
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
> index ba269a7a3201..b3063326b79a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/setup.h
> @@ -13,6 +13,27 @@
> extern phys_addr_t __fdt_pointer __initdata;
> extern u64 __cacheline_aligned boot_args[4];
>
> +/*
> + * rodata=on (default):
> + * Apply read-only attributes of VM areas to the linear alias of
> + * the backing pages as well. This prevents code or read-only data
> + * from being modified (inadvertently or intentionally) via another
> + * mapping of the same memory page.
> + *
> + * This requires the linear region to be mapped down to pages,
> + * which may adversely affect performance in some cases.
> + *
> + * rodata=off:
> + * It provides us more block mappings and contiguous hits
> + * to map the linear region which minimize the TLB footprint.
> + * Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
> + *
> + * rodata=noalias:
> + * It provides us more block mappings and contiguous hits
> + * to map the linear region which minimize the TLB footprint.
> + * And the linear aliases of pages belonging to read-only mappings
> + * in vmalloc region are also marked as read-only.
> + */
Reformatted and cleaned up the above comment a bit but feel free to
improve it further.
/*
* rodata=on (default)
*
* This applies read-only attributes to VM areas and to the linear
* alias of the backing pages as well. This prevents code or read-
* only data from being modified (inadvertently or intentionally),
* via another mapping for the same memory page.
*
* But this might cause linear map region to be mapped down to base
* pages, which may adversely affect performance in some cases.
*
* rodata=off
*
* This provides more block mappings and contiguous hints for linear
* map region which would minimize TLB footprint. This also leaves
* read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
*
* rodata=noalias
*
* This provides more block mappings and contiguous hints for linear
* map region which would minimize TLB footprint. Linear aliases of
* pages belonging to read-only mappings in vmalloc region are also
* marked as read-only.
> static inline bool arch_parse_debug_rodata(char *arg)
> {
> extern bool rodata_enabled;
> @@ -21,7 +42,7 @@ static inline bool arch_parse_debug_rodata(char *arg)
> if (!arg)
> return false;
>
> - if (!strcmp(arg, "full")) {
> + if (!strcmp(arg, "on")) {
> rodata_enabled = rodata_full = true;
> return true;
> }
> @@ -31,7 +52,7 @@ static inline bool arch_parse_debug_rodata(char *arg)
> return true;
> }
>
> - if (!strcmp(arg, "on")) {
> + if (!strcmp(arg, "noalias")) {
> rodata_enabled = true;
> rodata_full = false;
> return true;
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* Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: refactor the rodata=xxx
2024-12-10 7:17 ` Anshuman Khandual
@ 2024-12-10 7:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-12-10 8:38 ` Anshuman Khandual
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Ard Biesheuvel @ 2024-12-10 7:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Anshuman Khandual
Cc: Huang Shijie, catalin.marinas, will, corbet, patches, cl, akpm,
thuth, rostedt, xiongwei.song, inux-doc, linux-kernel,
linux-arm-kernel
On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 at 08:17, Anshuman Khandual
<anshuman.khandual@arm.com> wrote:
>
...
>
> Reformatted and cleaned up the above comment a bit but feel free to
> improve it further.
>
> /*
> * rodata=on (default)
> *
> * This applies read-only attributes to VM areas and to the linear
> * alias of the backing pages as well. This prevents code or read-
> * only data from being modified (inadvertently or intentionally),
> * via another mapping for the same memory page.
> *
> * But this might cause linear map region to be mapped down to base
> * pages, which may adversely affect performance in some cases.
> *
> * rodata=off
> *
> * This provides more block mappings and contiguous hints for linear
> * map region which would minimize TLB footprint. This also leaves
> * read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
> *
> * rodata=noalias
> *
> * This provides more block mappings and contiguous hints for linear
> * map region which would minimize TLB footprint. Linear aliases of
> * pages belonging to read-only mappings in vmalloc region are also
> * marked as read-only.
>
If linear aliases are marked as read-only, how does 'noalias' differ from 'on'?
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* Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: remove CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
2024-12-09 7:20 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: remove CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED Huang Shijie
@ 2024-12-10 7:27 ` Anshuman Khandual
0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Anshuman Khandual @ 2024-12-10 7:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Huang Shijie, catalin.marinas, will, corbet
Cc: patches, cl, akpm, thuth, rostedt, xiongwei.song, ardb, inux-doc,
linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel
A small nit:
arm64/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
On 12/9/24 12:50, Huang Shijie wrote:
> After patch "arm64: refacotr the rodata=xxx",
> the "rodata=on" becomes the default.
>
> ......................................
> if (!strcmp(arg, "on")) {
> rodata_enabled = rodata_full = true;
> return true;
> }
> ......................................
>
> The rodata_full is always "true" via "rodata=on" and does not
> depend on the config RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED anymore,
> so it can be dropped.
>
> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie@os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 14 --------------
> arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index cbfd357f94a6..1c69982302ed 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -1666,20 +1666,6 @@ config MITIGATE_SPECTRE_BRANCH_HISTORY
> When taking an exception from user-space, a sequence of branches
> or a firmware call overwrites the branch history.
>
> -config RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
> - bool "Apply r/o permissions of VM areas also to their linear aliases"
> - default y
> - help
> - Apply read-only attributes of VM areas to the linear alias of
> - the backing pages as well. This prevents code or read-only data
> - from being modified (inadvertently or intentionally) via another
> - mapping of the same memory page. This additional enhancement can
> - be turned off at runtime by passing rodata=[off|on] (and turned on
> - with rodata=full if this option is set to 'n')
> -
> - This requires the linear region to be mapped down to pages,
> - which may adversely affect performance in some cases.
> -
> config ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN
> bool "Emulate Privileged Access Never using TTBR0_EL1 switching"
> depends on !KCSAN
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> index 39fd1f7ff02a..6eef08d8451e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ struct page_change_data {
> pgprot_t clear_mask;
> };
>
> -bool rodata_full __ro_after_init = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED);
> +bool rodata_full __ro_after_init = true;
>
> bool can_set_direct_map(void)
> {
Otherwise LGTM
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
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* Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: refactor the rodata=xxx
2024-12-10 7:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel
@ 2024-12-10 8:38 ` Anshuman Khandual
2024-12-10 9:47 ` Shijie Huang
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Anshuman Khandual @ 2024-12-10 8:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ard Biesheuvel
Cc: Huang Shijie, catalin.marinas, will, corbet, patches, cl, akpm,
thuth, rostedt, xiongwei.song, inux-doc, linux-kernel,
linux-arm-kernel
On 12/10/24 12:51, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 at 08:17, Anshuman Khandual
> <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> wrote:
>>
> ...
>>
>> Reformatted and cleaned up the above comment a bit but feel free to
>> improve it further.
>>
>> /*
>> * rodata=on (default)
>> *
>> * This applies read-only attributes to VM areas and to the linear
>> * alias of the backing pages as well. This prevents code or read-
>> * only data from being modified (inadvertently or intentionally),
>> * via another mapping for the same memory page.
>> *
>> * But this might cause linear map region to be mapped down to base
>> * pages, which may adversely affect performance in some cases.
>> *
>> * rodata=off
>> *
>> * This provides more block mappings and contiguous hints for linear
>> * map region which would minimize TLB footprint. This also leaves
>> * read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
>> *
>> * rodata=noalias
>> *
>> * This provides more block mappings and contiguous hints for linear
>> * map region which would minimize TLB footprint. Linear aliases of
>> * pages belonging to read-only mappings in vmalloc region are also
>> * marked as read-only.
>>
>
> If linear aliases are marked as read-only, how does 'noalias' differ from 'on'?
Right, the last sentence can be can dropped.
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* Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: refactor the rodata=xxx
2024-12-10 8:38 ` Anshuman Khandual
@ 2024-12-10 9:47 ` Shijie Huang
0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Shijie Huang @ 2024-12-10 9:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Anshuman Khandual, Ard Biesheuvel
Cc: Huang Shijie, catalin.marinas, will, corbet, patches, cl, akpm,
thuth, rostedt, xiongwei.song, inux-doc, linux-kernel,
linux-arm-kernel
On 2024/12/10 16:38, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>
> On 12/10/24 12:51, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 at 08:17, Anshuman Khandual
>> <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> Reformatted and cleaned up the above comment a bit but feel free to
>>> improve it further.
>>>
>>> /*
>>> * rodata=on (default)
>>> *
>>> * This applies read-only attributes to VM areas and to the linear
>>> * alias of the backing pages as well. This prevents code or read-
>>> * only data from being modified (inadvertently or intentionally),
>>> * via another mapping for the same memory page.
>>> *
>>> * But this might cause linear map region to be mapped down to base
>>> * pages, which may adversely affect performance in some cases.
>>> *
>>> * rodata=off
>>> *
>>> * This provides more block mappings and contiguous hints for linear
>>> * map region which would minimize TLB footprint. This also leaves
>>> * read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
>>> *
>>> * rodata=noalias
>>> *
>>> * This provides more block mappings and contiguous hints for linear
>>> * map region which would minimize TLB footprint. Linear aliases of
>>> * pages belonging to read-only mappings in vmalloc region are also
>>> * marked as read-only.
>>>
>> If linear aliases are marked as read-only, how does 'noalias' differ from 'on'?
> Right, the last sentence can be can dropped.
Okay, no problem.
Thanks
Huang Shijie
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