Commit 7a5714e0 authored Feb 20, 2009 by Ingo Molnar

x86, pat: add large-PAT check to split_large_page()



Impact: future-proof the split_large_page() function

Linus noticed that split_large_page() is not safe wrt. the
PAT bit: it is bit 12 on the 1GB and 2MB page table level
(_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE), and it is bit 7 on the 4K page
table level (_PAGE_BIT_PAT).

Currently it is not a problem because we never set
_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE on any of the large-page mappings - but
should this happen in the future the split_large_page() would
silently lift bit 12 into the lowlevel 4K pte and would start
corrupting the physical page frame offset. Not fun.

So add a debug warning, to make sure if something ever sets
the PAT bit then this function gets updated too.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

parent 60916285

arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c

+7 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -482,6 +482,13 @@ static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address)
		pbase = (pte_t *)page_address(base);
		paravirt_alloc_pte(&init_mm, page_to_pfn(base));
		ref_prot = pte_pgprot(pte_clrhuge(*kpte));
		/*
		* If we ever want to utilize the PAT bit, we need to
		* update this function to make sure it's converted from
		* bit 12 to bit 7 when we cross from the 2MB level to
		* the 4K level:
		*/
		WARN_ON_ONCE(pgprot_val(ref_prot) & _PAGE_PAT_LARGE);

		#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
		if (level == PG_LEVEL_1G) {

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