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arm64/mm: Move PTE_PRESENT_INVALID to overlay PTE_NG
PTE_PRESENT_INVALID was previously occupying bit 59, which when a PTE is valid can either be IGNORED, PBHA[0] or AttrIndex[3], depending on the HW configuration. In practice this is currently not a problem because PTE_PRESENT_INVALID can only be 1 when PTE_VALID=0 and upstream Linux always requires the bit set to 0 for a valid pte. However, if in future Linux wants to use the field (e.g. AttrIndex[3]) then we could end up with confusion when PTE_PRESENT_INVALID comes along and corrupts the field - we would ideally want to preserve it even for an invalid (but present) pte. The other problem with bit 59 is that it prevents the offset field of a swap entry within a swap pte from growing beyond 51 bits. By moving PTE_PRESENT_INVALID to a low bit we can lay the swap pte out so that the offset field could grow to 52 bits in future. So let's move PTE_PRESENT_INVALID to overlay PTE_NG (bit 11). There is no need to persist NG for a present-invalid entry; it is always set for user mappings and is not used by SW to derive any state from the pte. PTE_NS was considered instead of PTE_NG, but it is RES0 for non-secure SW, so there is a chance that future architecture may allocate the bit and we may therefore need to persist that bit for present-invalid ptes. These are both marginal benefits, but make things a bit tidier in my opinion. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
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arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h

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* interpreted according to the HW layout by SW but any attempted HW access to
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* the address will result in a fault. pte_present() returns true.
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*/
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#define PTE_PRESENT_INVALID (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 59) /* only when !PTE_VALID */
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#define PTE_PRESENT_INVALID (PTE_NG) /* only when !PTE_VALID */
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#define _PROT_DEFAULT (PTE_TYPE_PAGE | PTE_AF | PTE_SHARED)
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#define _PROT_SECT_DEFAULT (PMD_TYPE_SECT | PMD_SECT_AF | PMD_SECT_S)

arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h

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@@ -1261,15 +1261,15 @@ static inline pmd_t pmdp_establish(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
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* Encode and decode a swap entry:
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* bits 0-1: present (must be zero)
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* bits 2: remember PG_anon_exclusive
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* bits 3-7: swap type
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* bits 8-57: swap offset
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* bit 59: PTE_PRESENT_INVALID (must be zero)
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* bits 6-10: swap type
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* bit 11: PTE_PRESENT_INVALID (must be zero)
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* bits 12-61: swap offset
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*/
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#define __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT 3
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#define __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT 6
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#define __SWP_TYPE_BITS 5
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#define __SWP_OFFSET_BITS 50
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#define __SWP_TYPE_MASK ((1 << __SWP_TYPE_BITS) - 1)
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#define __SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT (__SWP_TYPE_BITS + __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT)
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#define __SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT 12
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#define __SWP_OFFSET_BITS 50
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#define __SWP_OFFSET_MASK ((1UL << __SWP_OFFSET_BITS) - 1)
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#define __swp_type(x) (((x).val >> __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT) & __SWP_TYPE_MASK)

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