ARM: implement support for vmap'ed stacks

Wire up the generic support for managing task stack allocations via vmalloc,
and implement the entry code that detects whether we faulted because of a
stack overrun (or future stack overrun caused by pushing the pt_regs array)

While this adds a fair amount of tricky entry asm code, it should be
noted that it only adds a TST + branch to the svc_entry path. The code
implementing the non-trivial handling of the overflow stack is emitted
out-of-line into the .text section.

Since on ARM, we rely on do_translation_fault() to keep PMD level page
table entries that cover the vmalloc region up to date, we need to
ensure that we don't hit such a stale PMD entry when accessing the
stack. So we do a dummy read from the new stack while still running from
the old one on the context switch path, and bump the vmalloc_seq counter
when PMD level entries in the vmalloc range are modified, so that the MM
switch fetches the latest version of the entries.

Note that we need to increase the per-mode stack by 1 word, to gain some
space to stash a GPR until we know it is safe to touch the stack.
However, due to the cacheline alignment of the struct, this does not
actually increase the memory footprint of the struct stack array at all.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Keith Packard <keithpac@amazon.com>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> # ARMv7M

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 164e15f26485..004b89d86224 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@
 #define THREAD_SIZE		(PAGE_SIZE << THREAD_SIZE_ORDER)
 #define THREAD_START_SP		(THREAD_SIZE - 8)
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
+#define THREAD_ALIGN		(2 * THREAD_SIZE)
+#else
+#define THREAD_ALIGN		THREAD_SIZE
+#endif
+
+#define OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE	SZ_4K
+
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
 struct task_struct;