From 82840451936f0301781ece80322230fd8edfc648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Hildenbrand Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:50:14 -0700 Subject: mm: introduce page_offline_(begin|end|freeze|thaw) to synchronize setting PageOffline() A driver might set a page logically offline -- PageOffline() -- and turn the page inaccessible in the hypervisor; after that, access to page content can be fatal. One example is virtio-mem; while unplugged memory -- marked as PageOffline() can currently be read in the hypervisor, this will no longer be the case in the future; for example, when having a virtio-mem device backed by huge pages in the hypervisor. Some special PFN walkers -- i.e., /proc/kcore -- read content of random pages after checking PageOffline(); however, these PFN walkers can race with drivers that set PageOffline(). Let's introduce page_offline_(begin|end|freeze|thaw) for synchronizing. page_offline_freeze()/page_offline_thaw() allows for a subsystem to synchronize with such drivers, achieving that a page cannot be set PageOffline() while frozen. page_offline_begin()/page_offline_end() is used by drivers that care about such races when setting a page PageOffline(). For simplicity, use a rwsem for now; neither drivers nor users are performance sensitive. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-5-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Aili Yao Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Jiri Bohac Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Steven Price Cc: Wei Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/util.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/util.c') diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index a8bf17f18a81..a034525e7ba2 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -1010,3 +1010,43 @@ void mem_dump_obj(void *object) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_dump_obj); #endif + +/* + * A driver might set a page logically offline -- PageOffline() -- and + * turn the page inaccessible in the hypervisor; after that, access to page + * content can be fatal. + * + * Some special PFN walkers -- i.e., /proc/kcore -- read content of random + * pages after checking PageOffline(); however, these PFN walkers can race + * with drivers that set PageOffline(). + * + * page_offline_freeze()/page_offline_thaw() allows for a subsystem to + * synchronize with such drivers, achieving that a page cannot be set + * PageOffline() while frozen. + * + * page_offline_begin()/page_offline_end() is used by drivers that care about + * such races when setting a page PageOffline(). + */ +static DECLARE_RWSEM(page_offline_rwsem); + +void page_offline_freeze(void) +{ + down_read(&page_offline_rwsem); +} + +void page_offline_thaw(void) +{ + up_read(&page_offline_rwsem); +} + +void page_offline_begin(void) +{ + down_write(&page_offline_rwsem); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_offline_begin); + +void page_offline_end(void) +{ + up_write(&page_offline_rwsem); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_offline_end); -- cgit