arm64: proc: Set PTE_NG for table entries to avoid traversing them twice

Commit Message

Will Deacon Feb. 13, 2018, 1:14 p.m. UTC

When KASAN is enabled, the swapper page table contains many identical
mappings of the zero page, which can lead to a stall during boot whilst
the G -> nG code continually walks the same page table entries looking
for global mappings.

This patch sets the nG bit (bit 11, which is IGNORED) in table entries
after processing the subtree so we can easily skip them if we see them
a second time.

Tested-by: Mark Rutland <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[e-mail]>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

Catalin Marinas Feb. 14, 2018, 6:55 p.m. UTC | #1

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 01:14:09PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> When KASAN is enabled, the swapper page table contains many identical
> mappings of the zero page, which can lead to a stall during boot whilst
> the G -> nG code continually walks the same page table entries looking
> for global mappings.
> 
> This patch sets the nG bit (bit 11, which is IGNORED) in table entries
> after processing the subtree so we can easily skip them if we see them
> a second time.
> 
> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <[e-mail]>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[e-mail]>

Queued for -rc2. Thanks.

Patch

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
index 71baed7e592a..c0af47617299 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@  ENDPROC(idmap_cpu_replace_ttbr1)
 	dc	cvac, cur_\()\type\()p		// Ensure any existing dirty
 	dmb	sy				// lines are written back before
 	ldr	\type, [cur_\()\type\()p]	// loading the entry
-	tbz	\type, #0, next_\()\type	// Skip invalid entries
+	tbz	\type, #0, skip_\()\type	// Skip invalid and
+	tbnz	\type, #11, skip_\()\type	// non-global entries
 	.endm
 
 	.macro __idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng, type
@@ -265,8 +266,9 @@  ENTRY(idmap_kpti_install_ng_mappings)
 	add	end_pgdp, cur_pgdp, #(PTRS_PER_PGD * 8)
 do_pgd:	__idmap_kpti_get_pgtable_ent	pgd
 	tbnz	pgd, #1, walk_puds
-	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pgd
 next_pgd:
+	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pgd
+skip_pgd:
 	add	cur_pgdp, cur_pgdp, #8
 	cmp	cur_pgdp, end_pgdp
 	b.ne	do_pgd
@@ -294,8 +296,9 @@  walk_puds:
 	add	end_pudp, cur_pudp, #(PTRS_PER_PUD * 8)
 do_pud:	__idmap_kpti_get_pgtable_ent	pud
 	tbnz	pud, #1, walk_pmds
-	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pud
 next_pud:
+	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pud
+skip_pud:
 	add	cur_pudp, cur_pudp, 8
 	cmp	cur_pudp, end_pudp
 	b.ne	do_pud
@@ -314,8 +317,9 @@  walk_pmds:
 	add	end_pmdp, cur_pmdp, #(PTRS_PER_PMD * 8)
 do_pmd:	__idmap_kpti_get_pgtable_ent	pmd
 	tbnz	pmd, #1, walk_ptes
-	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pmd
 next_pmd:
+	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pmd
+skip_pmd:
 	add	cur_pmdp, cur_pmdp, #8
 	cmp	cur_pmdp, end_pmdp
 	b.ne	do_pmd
@@ -333,7 +337,7 @@  walk_ptes:
 	add	end_ptep, cur_ptep, #(PTRS_PER_PTE * 8)
 do_pte:	__idmap_kpti_get_pgtable_ent	pte
 	__idmap_kpti_put_pgtable_ent_ng	pte
-next_pte:
+skip_pte:
 	add	cur_ptep, cur_ptep, #8
 	cmp	cur_ptep, end_ptep
 	b.ne	do_pte