arm64: Enable permission change on arm64 kernel block mappings

This patch paves the path to enable huge mappings in vmalloc space and
linear map space by default on arm64. For this we must ensure that we
can handle any permission games on the kernel (init_mm) pagetable.
Previously, __change_memory_common() used apply_to_page_range() which
does not support changing permissions for block mappings. We move away
from this by using the pagewalk API, similar to what riscv does right
now. It is the responsibility of the caller to ensure that the range
over which permissions are being changed falls on leaf mapping
boundaries. For systems with BBML2, this will be handled in future
patches by dyanmically splitting the mappings when required.

Unlike apply_to_page_range(), the pagewalk API currently enforces the
init_mm.mmap_lock to be held. To avoid the unnecessary bottleneck of the
mmap_lock for our usecase, this patch extends this generic API to be
used locklessly, so as to retain the existing behaviour for changing
permissions. Apart from this reason, it is noted at [1] that KFENCE can
manipulate kernel pgtable entries during softirqs. It does this by
calling set_memory_valid() -> __change_memory_common(). This being a
non-sleepable context, we cannot take the init_mm mmap lock.

Add comments to highlight the conditions under which we can use the
lockless variant - no underlying VMA, and the user having exclusive
control over the range, thus guaranteeing no concurrent access.

We require that the start and end of a given range do not partially
overlap block mappings, or cont mappings. Return -EINVAL in case a
partial block mapping is detected in any of the PGD/P4D/PUD/PMD levels;
add a corresponding comment in update_range_prot() to warn that
eliminating such a condition is the responsibility of the caller.

Note that, the pte level callback may change permissions for a whole
contpte block, and that will be done one pte at a time, as opposed to an
atomic operation for the block mappings. This is fine as any access will
decode either the old or the new permission until the TLBI.

apply_to_page_range() currently performs all pte level callbacks while
in lazy mmu mode. Since arm64 can optimize performance by batching
barriers when modifying kernel pgtables in lazy mmu mode, we would like
to continue to benefit from this optimisation. Unfortunately
walk_kernel_page_table_range() does not use lazy mmu mode. However,
since the pagewalk framework is not allocating any memory, we can safely
bracket the whole operation inside lazy mmu mode ourselves. Therefore,
wrap the call to walk_kernel_page_table_range() with the lazy MMU
helpers.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/89d0ad18-4772-4d8f-ae8a-7c48d26a927e@arm.com/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yshi@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

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