mm/vmalloc: Add flag for freeing of special permsissions
Add a new flag VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS, for enabling vfree operations to immediately clear executable TLB entries before freeing pages, and handle resetting permissions on the directmap. This flag is useful for any kind of memory with elevated permissions, or where there can be related permissions changes on the directmap. Today this is RO+X and RO memory. Although this enables directly vfreeing non-writeable memory now, non-writable memory cannot be freed in an interrupt because the allocation itself is used as a node on deferred free list. So when RO memory needs to be freed in an interrupt the code doing the vfree needs to have its own work queue, as was the case before the deferred vfree list was added to vmalloc. For architectures with set_direct_map_ implementations this whole operation can be done with one TLB flush when centralized like this. For others with directmap permissions, currently only arm64, a backup method using set_memory functions is used to reset the directmap. When arm64 adds set_direct_map_ functions, this backup can be removed. When the TLB is flushed to both remove TLB entries for the vmalloc range mapping and the direct map permissions, the lazy purge operation could be done to try to save a TLB flush later. However today vm_unmap_aliases could flush a TLB range that does not include the directmap. So a helper is added with extra parameters that can allow both the vmalloc address and the direct mapping to be flushed during this operation. The behavior of the normal vm_unmap_aliases function is unchanged. Suggested-by:Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Suggested-by:
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