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SubjectCorrect way to access the physmap? - Was: Re: [PATCH 7/9] Pmalloc Rare Write: modify selected pools
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On 24/04/18 15:50, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 04:54:56PM +0400, Igor Stoppa wrote:
>> While the vanilla version of pmalloc provides support for permanently
>> transitioning between writable and read-only of a memory pool, this
>> patch seeks to support a separate class of data, which would still
>> benefit from write protection, most of the time, but it still needs to
>> be modifiable. Maybe very seldom, but still cannot be permanently marked
>> as read-only.
>
> This seems like a horrible idea that basically makes this feature useless.
> I would say the right way to do this is to have:
>
> struct modifiable_data {
> struct immutable_data *d;
> ...
> };
>
> Then allocate a new pool, change d and destroy the old pool.

At the end of the summit, we agreed that I would go through the physmap.

But I'm not sure of what is the correct way to access it :-/

Starting from a vmalloc address, say:

int *i = vmalloc(sizeof(int));

I can get its linear counterpart:

int *j = page_to_virt(vmalloc_to_page(i));

and the physical address:

int *k = virt_to_phys(j);

But how do I get to the physmap?

I did not find much about it, apart from papers that talk about specific
hardcoded addresses, but I would expect that if there is any hardcoded
constant, by now, it's hidden behind some macro.

What I have verified, so far, at least on qemu x86_64, is that
protecting "i" will also make "j" unwritable.

--
igor

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