kernel-hacking-2024-linux-s.../arch/x86
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 5deb30d194 xen: rework pgd_walk to deal with 32/64 bit
Rewrite pgd_walk to deal with 64-bit address spaces.  There are two
notible features of 64-bit workspaces:

 1. The physical address is only 48 bits wide, with the upper 16 bits
    being sign extension; kernel addresses are negative, and userspace is
    positive.

 2. The Xen hypervisor mapping is at the negative-most address, just above
    the sign-extension hole.

1. means that we can't easily use addresses when traversing the space,
since we must deal with sign extension.  This rewrite expresses
everything in terms of pgd/pud/pmd indices, which means we don't need
to worry about the exact configuration of the virtual memory space.
This approach works equally well in 32-bit.

To deal with 2, assume the hole is between the uppermost userspace
address and PAGE_OFFSET.  For 64-bit this skips the Xen mapping hole.
For 32-bit, the hole is zero-sized.

In all cases, the uppermost kernel address is FIXADDR_TOP.

A side-effect of this patch is that the upper boundary is actually
handled properly, exposing a long-standing bug in 32-bit, which failed
to pin kernel pmd page.  The kernel pmd is not shared, and so must be
explicitly pinned, even though the kernel ptes are shared and don't
need pinning.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-16 11:03:59 +02:00
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boot
configs
crypto
ia32 x86_64: adjust exception frame in ia32entry 2008-07-16 10:54:53 +02:00
kernel xen64: add hypervisor callbacks for events, etc 2008-07-16 10:59:52 +02:00
kvm
lguest x86, VisWS: turn into generic arch, eliminate Kconfig specials 2008-07-10 18:55:47 +02:00
lib Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
mach-default x86, VisWS: turn into generic arch, eliminate Kconfig specials 2008-07-10 18:55:47 +02:00
mach-es7000
mach-generic
mach-rdc321x
mach-voyager Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
math-emu
mm pvops-64: call paravirt_post_allocator_init() on setup_arch() 2008-07-16 10:53:57 +02:00
oprofile Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
pci generic-ipi: merge fix 2008-07-15 22:03:56 +02:00
power
vdso Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus 2008-07-14 16:11:52 +02:00
video
xen xen: rework pgd_walk to deal with 32/64 bit 2008-07-16 11:03:59 +02:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: mark x86_64 as having a working WP. 2008-07-09 09:14:21 +02:00
Kconfig.debug x86: MMIOTRACE should not default to on 2008-07-14 15:03:25 -07:00
Makefile x86, VisWS: turn into generic arch, remove leftover files 2008-07-10 18:55:45 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu