s390/mm: make hugepages_supported a boot time decision

Browse source

There is a potential bug with KVM and hugetlbfs if the hardware does not
support hugepages (EDAT1).  We fix this by making EDAT1 a hard requirement
for hugepages and therefore removing and simplifying code.

As s390, with the sw-emulated hugepages, was the only user of
arch_prepare/release_hugepage I also removed theses calls from common and
other architecture code.

This patch (of 5):

By dropping support for hugepages on machines which do not have the
hardware feature EDAT1, we fix a potential s390 KVM bug.

The bug would happen if a guest is backed by hugetlbfs (not supported
currently), but does not get pagetables with PGSTE.  This would lead to
random memory overwrites.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

...

This commit is contained in:

Dominik Dingel 2015-06-25 14:59:39 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

parent aefbef10e3

commit bea41197ea

3 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

8

arch/s390/include/asm/page.h

View file

2

arch/s390/kernel/setup.c

View file

2

arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c

View file