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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86/mm/KASLR: Adjust the vmemmap size according to paging mode
On 09/04/18 at 11:13am, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 10:52:13PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 09/03/18 at 01:26pm, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > > > But there's corner case when struct page is unreasonably large and
> > > > > vmemmap_size will be way to large. We probably have to report an error if
> > > > > we cannot fit vmemmap properly into virtual memory layout.
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, sizeof(struct page) can't exceed one whole page surely, otherwise
> > > > system bootup can't go over vmemmap initlization. Except of this, we may
> > > > need think about the virtual memory layout which vmemmap can be allowed
> > > > to occupy.
> > > >
> > > > If KASAN enabled, KASLR disabled,
> > > > 4-level 1TB + 1TB hole (2TB)
> > > > 5-level 512TB + 2034TB hole (2.5PB)
> > > >
> > > > If KASAN disabled, KASLR enabled,
> > > > 4-level 1TB + 1TB hole + 16TB (18TB)
> > > > 5-level 512TB + 2034TB hole + 8PB (10.5PB)
> > > >
> > > > So, as you can see, if add check in memory KASLR code, we should only
> > > > consider KASLR enabled case. We possibly don't need to worry about
> > > > 5-level case since the size 10.5PB is even bigger than the maximum
> > > > physical RAM mapping size. For 4-level, 18TB align to multiples of 2, it
> > > > will be 32 times of the current 1TB, then we usually assume 64 as the
> > > > default value of sizeof(struct page), then 64*32 == 1024. So we can add
~~~64*32 = 2048
Sorry, I made mistake here.
> > > > check like this, what do you think? Or any other idea?
> > >
> > > Looks reasonable to me.
> > >
> > > But I would have the BUILD_BUG_ON() in generic code. If you struct page is
> > > more than 1/4 of PAGE_SIZE something is horribly broken.
> >
> > Just the 1/4 of PAGE_SIZE is based on analysis of KASLR case. If
> > non-KASLR case, it may not be that value.
>
> Even if it technically possible to have struct page larger than
> PAGE_SIZE/4, it's just insane.
>
> > Not sure if it's OK to put it in generic code, and haven't thought of a
> > good place, maybe in setup_arch(), just at the beginning?
>
> I don't see an obvious place too. Maybe free_area_init_nodes()?

OK, you mean a more generic place, I only considered generic place in
x86. The thing is not all ARCH-es set PAGE_SIZE as 4KB, e.g power and
arm64 can have PAGE_SIZE of 64KB. For them, PAGE_SIZE/4, namely 16KB,
is hardly reached. So my thought is either taking PAGE_SIZE/4 in x86
arch only, or using SZ_1K in free_area_init_nodes() as you suggested.
What do you think?

Thanks
Baoquan

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