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| author | Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> | 2025-07-02 10:32:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2025-07-17 18:32:15 +0200 |
| commit | 1cf79d3da8be9c6ff7681ba5d4239c2792019a78 (patch) | |
| tree | 18fac59c708a86cfdc8cad55ce79575247a523b0 | |
| parent | 59614c5acf6688f7af3c245d359082c0e9e53117 (diff) | |
x86/mm: Disable hugetlb page table sharing on 32-bit
commit 76303ee8d54bff6d9a6d55997acd88a6c2ba63cf upstream.
Only select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE on 64-bit x86.
Page table sharing requires at least three levels because it involves
shared references to PMD tables; 32-bit x86 has either two-level paging
(without PAE) or three-level paging (with PAE), but even with
three-level paging, having a dedicated PGD entry for hugetlb is only
barely possible (because the PGD only has four entries), and it seems
unlikely anyone's actually using PMD sharing on 32-bit.
Having ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE enabled on non-PAE 32-bit X86 (which
has 2-level paging) became particularly problematic after commit
59d9094df3d7 ("mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count"),
since that changes `struct ptdesc` such that the `pt_mm` (for PGDs) and
the `pt_share_count` (for PMDs) share the same union storage - and with
2-level paging, PMDs are PGDs.
(For comparison, arm64 also gates ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE on the
configuration of page tables such that it is never enabled with 2-level
paging.)
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/srhpjxlqfna67blvma5frmy3aa@altlinux.org
Fixes: cfe28c5d63d8 ("x86: mm: Remove x86 version of huge_pmd_share.")
Reported-by: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250702-x86-2level-hugetlb-v2-1-1a98096edf92%40google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 1da950b1d41a..f23510275076 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ config X86 select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR select ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB - select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE + select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if X86_64 select ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP if X86_64 select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if X86_64 |