This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kaiser: name that 0x1000 KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: kaiser-name-that-0x1000-kaiser_shadow_pgd_offset.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Wed Jan 3 18:58:12 CET 2018
From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 17:31:18 -0700 Subject: kaiser: name that 0x1000 KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET
From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com
There's a 0x1000 in various places, which looks better with a name.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Acked-by: Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 4 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ ENTRY(nmi) movq %cr3, %rax pushq %rax #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER_REAL_SWITCH - andq $(~0x1000), %rax + andq $(~KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET), %rax #endif movq %rax, %cr3 #endif @@ -1535,7 +1535,7 @@ end_repeat_nmi: movq %cr3, %rax pushq %rax #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER_REAL_SWITCH - andq $(~0x1000), %rax + andq $(~KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET), %rax #endif movq %rax, %cr3 #endif --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h @@ -13,13 +13,16 @@ * A minimalistic kernel mapping holds the parts needed to be mapped in user * mode, such as the entry/exit functions of the user space, or the stacks. */ + +#define KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET 0x1000 + #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__ #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER
.macro _SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3 reg movq %cr3, \reg #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER_REAL_SWITCH -andq $(~0x1000), \reg +andq $(~KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET), \reg #endif movq \reg, %cr3 .endm @@ -27,7 +30,7 @@ movq \reg, %cr3 .macro _SWITCH_TO_USER_CR3 reg movq %cr3, \reg #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER_REAL_SWITCH -orq $(0x1000), \reg +orq $(KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET), \reg #endif movq \reg, %cr3 .endm
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@google.com are
queue-4.4/kaiser-vmstat-show-nr_kaisertable-as-nr_overhead.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-add-nokaiser-boot-option-using-alternative.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-unlikely-error-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-_pgd_alloc-without-__gfp_repeat-to-avoid-stalls.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser_flush_tlb_on_return_to_user-check-pcid.patch queue-4.4/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-merged-update.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-delete-kaiser_real_switch-option.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser_remove_mapping-move-along-the-pgd.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-perf-crashes.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-drop-is_atomic-arg-to-kaiser_pagetable_walk.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-load_new_mm_cr3-let-switch_user_cr3-flush-user.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-enhanced-by-kernel-and-user-pcids.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush-and-x86_cr3_pcid_user.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-use-alternative-instead-of-x86_cr3_pcid_noflush.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-stack-map-page_size-at-thread_size-page_size.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-name-that-0x1000-kaiser_shadow_pgd_offset.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-regs-to-do_nmi-ifndef-config_kaiser.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-do-not-set-_page_nx-on-pgd_none.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-tidied-up-asm-kaiser.h-somewhat.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-cleanups-while-trying-for-gold-link.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-tidied-up-kaiser_add-remove_mapping-slightly.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-fix-build-and-fixme-in-alloc_ldt_struct.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kernel-address-isolation.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-enomem-if-kaiser_pagetable_walk-null.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-asm-tlbflush.h-handle-nopge-at-lower-level.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-paranoid_entry-pass-cr3-need-to-paranoid_exit.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-kaiser-depends-on-smp.patch queue-4.4/kaiser-pcid-0-for-kernel-and-128-for-user.patch