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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2016-08-11 02:35:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-08-24 12:11:42 +0200 |
| commit | e37e43a497d5a8b7c0cc1736d56986f432c394c9 (patch) | |
| tree | bd6a1682666510271a53ebd21dc6de5e13548aac /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
| parent | b4a0f533e5976cb1a79f31d6152e1d322d79b7f1 (diff) | |
x86/mm/64: Enable vmapped stacks (CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK=y)
This allows x86_64 kernels to enable vmapped stacks by setting
HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK=y - which enables the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y
high level Kconfig option.
There are a couple of interesting bits:
First, x86 lazily faults in top-level paging entries for the vmalloc
area. This won't work if we get a page fault while trying to access
the stack: the CPU will promote it to a double-fault and we'll die.
To avoid this problem, probe the new stack when switching stacks and
forcibly populate the pgd entry for the stack when switching mms.
Second, once we have guard pages around the stack, we'll want to
detect and handle stack overflow.
I didn't enable it on x86_32. We'd need to rework the double-fault
code a bit and I'm concerned about running out of vmalloc virtual
addresses under some workloads.
This patch, by itself, will behave somewhat erratically when the
stack overflows while RSP is still more than a few tens of bytes
above the bottom of the stack. Specifically, we'll get #PF and make
it to no_context and them oops without reliably triggering a
double-fault, and no_context doesn't know about stack overflows.
The next patch will improve that case.
Thank you to Nadav and Brian for helping me pay enough attention to
the SDM to hopefully get this right.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c88f3e2920b18e6cc621d772a04a62c06869037e.1470907718.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Minor edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index c580d8c33562..21a6d0ec5983 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE select HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES select HAVE_EBPF_JIT if X86_64 + select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK if X86_64 select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL |