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| author | Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> | 2013-04-29 15:07:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-05-07 19:51:55 -0700 |
| commit | 273a82bee94d42ba58b264bc427cd75df65b81fc (patch) | |
| tree | 29c58f1e1b209f4e6ab09fb0ea8188e52501d6db /include | |
| parent | ede49f3642cce1fe60ac81cb1953e7a8fd91e8ce (diff) | |
mm: allow arch code to control the user page table ceiling
commit 6ee8630e02be6dd89926ca0fbc21af68b23dc087 upstream.
On architectures where a pgd entry may be shared between user and kernel
(e.g. ARM+LPAE), freeing page tables needs a ceiling other than 0.
This patch introduces a generic USER_PGTABLES_CEILING that arch code can
override. It is the responsibility of the arch code setting the ceiling
to ensure the complete freeing of the page tables (usually in
pgd_free()).
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: commit log; shift_arg_pages(), asm-generic/pgtables.h changes]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h index c7ec2cdc904d..9a6eb25b90e9 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h @@ -7,6 +7,16 @@ #include <linux/mm_types.h> #include <linux/bug.h> +/* + * On almost all architectures and configurations, 0 can be used as the + * upper ceiling to free_pgtables(): on many architectures it has the same + * effect as using TASK_SIZE. However, there is one configuration which + * must impose a more careful limit, to avoid freeing kernel pgtables. + */ +#ifndef USER_PGTABLES_CEILING +#define USER_PGTABLES_CEILING 0UL +#endif + #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS extern int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep, |