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Commit 825c43f5 authored by Ard Biesheuvel's avatar Ard Biesheuvel Committed by Linus Torvalds
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kmap_local: don't assume kmap PTEs are linear arrays in memory

The kmap_local conversion broke the ARM architecture, because the new
code assumes that all PTEs used for creating kmaps form a linear array
in memory, and uses array indexing to look up the kmap PTE belonging to
a certain kmap index.

On ARM, this cannot work, not only because the PTE pages may be
non-adjacent in memory, but also because ARM/!LPAE interleaves hardware
entries and extended entries (carrying software-only bits) in a way that
is not compatible with array indexing.

Fortunately, this only seems to affect configurations with more than 8
CPUs, due to the way the per-CPU kmap slots are organized in memory.

Work around this by permitting an architecture to set a Kconfig symbol
that signifies that the kmap PTEs do not form a lineary array in memory,
and so the only way to locate the appropriate one is to walk the page
tables.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20211026131249.3731275-1-ardb@kernel.org/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211116094737.7391-1-ardb@kernel.org


Fixes: 2a15ba82 ("ARM: highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic")
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarQuanyang Wang <quanyang.wang@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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