[PATCH 3/6] powerpc/mm/radix: Fix small page at boundary when splitting

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Oct 19 15:13:31 AEDT 2018


When we have CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX enabled, we want to split the
linear mapping at the text/data boundary so we can map the kernel
text read only.

Currently we always use a small page at the text/data boundary, even
when that's not necessary:

  Mapped 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000e00000 with 2.00 MiB pages
  Mapped 0x0000000000e00000-0x0000000001000000 with 64.0 KiB pages
  Mapped 0x0000000001000000-0x0000000040000000 with 2.00 MiB pages

This is because the check that the mapping crosses the __init_begin
boundary is too strict, it also returns true when we map exactly up to
the boundary.

So fix it to check that the mapping would actually map past
__init_begin, and with that we see:

  Mapped 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000040000000 with 2.00 MiB pages
  Mapped 0x0000000040000000-0x0000000100000000 with 1.00 GiB pages

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
index bb85c58b96c8..7a44ec276290 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
@@ -295,14 +295,14 @@ static int __meminit create_physical_mapping(unsigned long start,
 
 		if (split_text_mapping && (mapping_size == PUD_SIZE) &&
 			(addr < __pa_symbol(__init_begin)) &&
-			(addr + mapping_size) >= __pa_symbol(__init_begin)) {
+			(addr + mapping_size) > __pa_symbol(__init_begin)) {
 			max_mapping_size = PMD_SIZE;
 			goto retry;
 		}
 
 		if (split_text_mapping && (mapping_size == PMD_SIZE) &&
 		    (addr < __pa_symbol(__init_begin)) &&
-		    (addr + mapping_size) >= __pa_symbol(__init_begin)) {
+		    (addr + mapping_size) > __pa_symbol(__init_begin)) {
 			mapping_size = PAGE_SIZE;
 			psize = mmu_virtual_psize;
 		}
-- 
2.17.2



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