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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:27:02 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ker.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
Marco Benatto <marco.antonio.780@...il.com>,
Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@...onical.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame
Ownership (XPFO)
On 09/20/2017 05:09 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>> I think the only thing that will really help here is if you batch the
>> allocations. For instance, you could make sure that the per-cpu-pageset
>> lists always contain either all kernel or all user data. Then remap the
>> entire list at once and do a single flush after the entire list is consumed.
> Just so I understand, the idea would be that we only flush when the
> type of allocation alternates, so:
>
> kmalloc(..., GFP_KERNEL);
> kmalloc(..., GFP_KERNEL);
> /* remap+flush here */
> kmalloc(..., GFP_HIGHUSER);
> /* remap+flush here */
> kmalloc(..., GFP_KERNEL);
Not really. We keep a free list per migrate type, and a per_cpu_pages
(pcp) list per migratetype:
> struct per_cpu_pages {
> int count; /* number of pages in the list */
> int high; /* high watermark, emptying needed */
> int batch; /* chunk size for buddy add/remove */
>
> /* Lists of pages, one per migrate type stored on the pcp-lists */
> struct list_head lists[MIGRATE_PCPTYPES];
> };
The migratetype is derived from the GFP flags in
gfpflags_to_migratetype(). In general, GFP_HIGHUSER and GFP_KERNEL come
from different migratetypes, so they come from different free lists.
In your case above, the GFP_HIGHUSER allocation come through the
MIGRATE_MOVABLE pcp list while the GFP_KERNEL ones come from the
MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE one. Since we add a bunch of pages to those lists at
once, you could do all the mapping/unmapping/flushing on a bunch of
pages at once
Or, you could hook your code into the places where the migratetype of
memory is changed (set_pageblock_migratetype(), plus where we fall
back). Those changes are much more rare than page allocation.
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