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Daniel Cashman
5ef11c35ce mm: ASLR: use get_random_long()
Replace calls to get_random_int() followed by a cast to (unsigned long)
with calls to get_random_long().  Also address shifting bug which, in
case of x86 removed entropy mask for mmap_rnd_bits values > 31 bits.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Cashman <dcashman@android.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-27 10:28:52 -08:00
Daniel Cashman
e0c25d958f arm: mm: support ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
arm: arch_mmap_rnd() uses a hard-code value of 8 to generate the random
offset for the mmap base address.  This value represents a compromise
between increased ASLR effectiveness and avoiding address-space
fragmentation.  Replace it with a Kconfig option, which is sensibly
bounded, so that platform developers may choose where to place this
compromise.  Keep 8 as the minimum acceptable value.

[arnd@arndb.de: ARM: avoid ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS for NOMMU]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Cashman <dcashman@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
Kees Cook
2b68f6caea mm: expose arch_mmap_rnd when available
When an architecture fully supports randomizing the ELF load location,
a per-arch mmap_rnd() function is used to find a randomized mmap base.
In preparation for randomizing the location of ET_DYN binaries
separately from mmap, this renames and exports these functions as
arch_mmap_rnd(). Additionally introduces CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
for describing this feature on architectures that support it
(which is a superset of ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE, since s390
already supports a separated ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR without the
ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE logic).

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Arun Chandran <achandran@mvista.com>
Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Cc: Min-Hua Chen <orca.chen@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Vineeth Vijayan <vvijayan@mvista.com>
Cc: Jeff Bailey <jeffbailey@google.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Cc: Ismael Ripoll <iripoll@upv.es>
Cc: Jan-Simon Mller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14 16:49:05 -07:00
Kees Cook
fbbc400f39 arm: factor out mmap ASLR into mmap_rnd
To address the "offset2lib" ASLR weakness[1], this separates ET_DYN ASLR
from mmap ASLR, as already done on s390.  The architectures that are
already randomizing mmap (arm, arm64, mips, powerpc, s390, and x86), have
their various forms of arch_mmap_rnd() made available via the new
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE.  For these architectures,
arch_randomize_brk() is collapsed as well.

This is an alternative to the solutions in:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/23/442

I've been able to test x86 and arm, and the buildbot (so far) seems happy
with building the rest.

[1] http://cybersecurity.upv.es/attacks/offset2lib/offset2lib.html

This patch (of 10):

In preparation for splitting out ET_DYN ASLR, this moves the ASLR
calculations for mmap on ARM into a separate routine, similar to x86.
This also removes the redundant check of personality (PF_RANDOMIZE is
already set before calling arch_pick_mmap_layout).

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Arun Chandran <achandran@mvista.com>
Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Cc: Min-Hua Chen <orca.chen@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Vineeth Vijayan <vvijayan@mvista.com>
Cc: Jeff Bailey <jeffbailey@google.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Cc: Ismael Ripoll <iripoll@upv.es>
Cc: Jan-Simon Mller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14 16:49:05 -07:00
Russell King
d8aa712c30 ARM: fix booting low-vectors machines
Commit f6f91b0d9f (ARM: allow kuser helpers to be removed from the
vector page) required two pages for the vectors code.  Although the
code setting up the initial page tables was updated, the code which
allocates page tables for new processes wasn't, neither was the code
which tears down the mappings.  Fix this.

Fixes: f6f91b0d9f ("ARM: allow kuser helpers to be removed from the vector page")
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2013-11-30 14:45:31 +00:00
Sergey Dyasly
3159f37235 ARM: 7840/1: LPAE: don't reject mapping /dev/mem above 4GB
With LPAE enabled, physical address space is larger than 4GB. Allow mapping any
part of it via /dev/mem by using PHYS_MASK to determine valid range.

PHYS_MASK covers 40 bits with LPAE enabled and 32 bits otherwise.

Reported-by: Vassili Karpov <av1474@comtv.ru>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2013-10-29 11:06:03 +00:00
Michel Lespinasse
98d1e64f95 mm: remove free_area_cache
Since all architectures have been converted to use vm_unmapped_area(),
there is no remaining use for the free_area_cache.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-10 18:11:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
608ff1a210 Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patchbomb)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "About half of most of MM.  Going very early this time due to
  uncertainty over the coreautounifiednumasched things.  I'll send the
  other half of most of MM tomorrow.  The rest of MM awaits a slab merge
  from Pekka."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton: (71 commits)
  memory_hotplug: ensure every online node has NORMAL memory
  memory_hotplug: handle empty zone when online_movable/online_kernel
  mm, memory-hotplug: dynamic configure movable memory and portion memory
  drivers/base/node.c: cleanup node_state_attr[]
  bootmem: fix wrong call parameter for free_bootmem()
  avr32, kconfig: remove HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM
  mm: cma: remove watermark hacks
  mm: cma: skip watermarks check for already isolated blocks in split_free_page()
  mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom origin
  mm, oom: change type of oom_score_adj to short
  mm: cleanup register_node()
  mm, mempolicy: remove duplicate code
  mm/vmscan.c: try_to_freeze() returns boolean
  mm: introduce putback_movable_pages()
  virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages
  mm: introduce compaction and migration for ballooned pages
  mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
  mm: redefine address_space.assoc_mapping
  mm: adjust address_space_operations.migratepage() return code
  arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c: s/COLOUR/COLOR/
  ...
2012-12-11 18:05:37 -08:00
Michel Lespinasse
394ef6403a mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on arm architecture
Update the arm arch_get_unmapped_area[_topdown] functions to make use of
vm_unmapped_area() instead of implementing a brute force search.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unused COLOUR_ALIGN_DOWN()]
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00
Cyril Chemparathy
7e6735c357 /dev/mem: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses
This patch fixes the /dev/mem driver to use phys_addr_t for physical
addresses.  This is required on PAE systems, especially those that run
entirely out of >4G physical memory space.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-24 15:32:50 -07:00
Rob Herring
7dbaa46678 ARM: 7169/1: topdown mmap support
Similar to other architectures, this adds topdown mmap support in user
process address space allocation policy. This allows mmap sizes greater
than 2GB. This support is largely copied from MIPS and the generic
implementations.

The address space randomization is moved into arch_pick_mmap_layout.

Tested on V-Express with ubuntu and a mmap test from here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861296

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-12-06 11:15:25 +00:00
Rob Herring
41dfaa934c ARM: 7168/1: use cache type functions for arch_get_unmapped_area
There are already cache type decoding functions, so use those instead
of custom decode code which only works for ARMv6.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-11-26 21:58:52 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
df5419a9a9 ARM: 6877/1: the ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE personality flag should be honored with mmap()
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-04-14 09:15:24 +01:00
Russell King
e399b1a4e1 ARM: v6k: introduce CPU_V6K option
Introduce a CPU_V6K configuration option for platforms to select if they
have a V6K CPU core.  This allows us to identify whether we need to
support ARMv6 CPUs without the V6K SMP extensions at build time.

Currently CPU_V6K is just an alias for CPU_V6, and all places which
reference CPU_V6 are replaced by (CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K).

Select CPU_V6K from platforms which are known to be V6K-only.

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Tested-by: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-02 21:23:26 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
087aaffcdf ARM: implement CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM by disabling access to RAM via /dev/mem
There are very few legitimate use cases, if any, for directly accessing
system RAM through /dev/mem.  So let's mimic what they do on x86 and
forbid it when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is turned on.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
2010-10-01 22:31:34 -04:00
Nicolas Pitre
cc92c28b2d [ARM] add address randomization to mmap()
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
2010-06-14 21:22:11 -04:00
Al Viro
e77414e0aa fix broken aliasing checks for MAP_FIXED on sparc32, mips, arm and sh
We want addr - (pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT) consistently coloured...

Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-11 06:44:59 -05:00
Greg Ungerer
6806bfe18f ARM: 5740/1: fix valid_phys_addr_range() range check
Commit 1522ac3ec9
("Fix virtual to physical translation macro corner cases")
breaks the end of memory check in valid_phys_addr_range().
The modified expression results in the apparent /dev/mem size
being 2 bytes smaller than what it actually is.

This patch reworks the expression to correctly check the address,
while maintaining use of a valid address to __pa().

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-10-02 22:32:34 +01:00
Russell King
1522ac3ec9 [ARM] Fix virtual to physical translation macro corner cases
The current use of these macros works well when the conversion is
entirely linear.  In this case, we can be assured that the following
holds true:

	__va(p + s) - s = __va(p)

However, this is not always the case, especially when there is a
non-linear conversion (eg, when there is a 3.5GB hole in memory.)
In this case, if 's' is the size of the region (eg, PAGE_SIZE) and
'p' is the final page, the above is most definitely not true.

So, we must ensure that __va() and __pa() are only used with valid
kernel direct mapped RAM addresses.  This patch tweaks the code
to achieve this.

Tested-by: Charles Moschel <fred99@carolina.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-12 23:09:09 +00:00
Russell King
09d9bae064 [ARM] sparse: fix several warnings
arch/arm/kernel/process.c:270:6: warning: symbol 'show_fpregs' was not declared. Should it be static?

This function isn't used, so can be removed.

arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:532:9: warning: symbol 'len' shadows an earlier one
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:524:6: originally declared here

A function containing two 'len's.

arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c:188:13: warning: symbol 'check_writebuffer_bugs' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/mm/mmap.c:122:5: warning: symbol 'valid_phys_addr_range' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/mm/mmap.c:137:5: warning: symbol 'valid_mmap_phys_addr_range' was not declared. Should it be static?

Missing includes.

arch/arm/kernel/traps.c:71:77: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c:355:46: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)

Sillies.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-05 14:11:24 +01:00
Russell King
0ba8b9b273 [ARM] cputype: separate definitions, use them
Add asm/cputype.h, moving functions and definitions from asm/system.h
there.  Convert all users of 'processor_id' to the more efficient
read_cpuid_id() function.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-01 12:06:23 +01:00
Alexandre Rusev
9ae3ae0beb [ARM] 4839/1: fixes kernel Oops in /dev/mem device driver for memory map with PHYS_OFF
"cat /dev/mem" may cause kernel Oops for boards with PHYS_OFFSET != 0
because character device is mapped to addresses starting from zero
and there is no protection against such situation.
Patch just add this.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Rusev <arusev@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-02-29 22:47:20 +00:00
Alexey Dobriyan
e8edc6e03a Detach sched.h from mm.h
First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
acec0ac0a8 get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on arm
ARM already had a case for MAP_FIXED in arch_get_unmapped_area() though it was
not called before.  Fix the comment to reflect that it will now be called.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:56 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek
51635ad282 [ARM] 3813/1: prevent >= 4G /dev/mem mmap()
Prevent userland from mapping in physical address regions >= 4G by
checking for that in valid_mmap_phys_addr_range().

Unfortunately, we cannot override valid_mmap_phys_addr_range() without
also overriding valid_phys_addr_range(), so copy drivers/char/mem.c's
version of valid_phys_addr_range() over to arch/arm/mm/mmap.c as well.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-25 10:25:26 +01:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Wolfgang Wander
1363c3cd86 [PATCH] Avoiding mmap fragmentation
Ingo recently introduced a great speedup for allocating new mmaps using the
free_area_cache pointer which boosts the specweb SSL benchmark by 4-5% and
causes huge performance increases in thread creation.

The downside of this patch is that it does lead to fragmentation in the
mmap-ed areas (visible via /proc/self/maps), such that some applications
that work fine under 2.4 kernels quickly run out of memory on any 2.6
kernel.

The problem is twofold:

  1) the free_area_cache is used to continue a search for memory where
     the last search ended.  Before the change new areas were always
     searched from the base address on.

     So now new small areas are cluttering holes of all sizes
     throughout the whole mmap-able region whereas before small holes
     tended to close holes near the base leaving holes far from the base
     large and available for larger requests.

  2) the free_area_cache also is set to the location of the last
     munmap-ed area so in scenarios where we allocate e.g.  five regions of
     1K each, then free regions 4 2 3 in this order the next request for 1K
     will be placed in the position of the old region 3, whereas before we
     appended it to the still active region 1, placing it at the location
     of the old region 2.  Before we had 1 free region of 2K, now we only
     get two free regions of 1K -> fragmentation.

The patch addresses thes issues by introducing yet another cache descriptor
cached_hole_size that contains the largest known hole size below the
current free_area_cache.  If a new request comes in the size is compared
against the cached_hole_size and if the request can be filled with a hole
below free_area_cache the search is started from the base instead.

The results look promising: Whereas 2.6.12-rc4 fragments quickly and my
(earlier posted) leakme.c test program terminates after 50000+ iterations
with 96 distinct and fragmented maps in /proc/self/maps it performs nicely
(as expected) with thread creation, Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads
requires 0.7s system time.

Taking out Ingo's patch (un-patch available per request) by basically
deleting all mentions of free_area_cache from the kernel and starting the
search for new memory always at the respective bases we observe: leakme
terminates successfully with 11 distinctive hardly fragmented areas in
/proc/self/maps but thread creating is gringdingly slow: 30+s(!) system
time for Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads.

Now - drumroll ;-) the appended patch works fine with leakme: it ends with
only 7 distinct areas in /proc/self/maps and also thread creation seems
sufficiently fast with 0.71s for 20000 threads.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Wander <wwc@rentec.com>
Credit-to: "Richard Purdie" <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (partly)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00