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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2011-05-19 13:21:14 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2011-05-26 10:23:24 +0100
commit7b7bf499f79de3f6c85a340c8453a78789523f85 (patch)
tree1d0bf7ae8d5befe135fb7e7cfc455656a0ec7b34 /arch/arm/Kconfig
parent4db70f73e56961b9bcdfd0c36c62847a18b7dbb5 (diff)
ARM: 6913/1: sparsemem: allow pfn_valid to be overridden when using SPARSEMEM
In commit eb33575c ("[ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2"), a new function, memmap_valid_within, was introduced to mmzone.h so that holes in the memmap which pass pfn_valid in SPARSEMEM configurations can be detected and avoided. The fix to this problem checks that the pfn <-> page linkages are correct by calculating the page for the pfn and then checking that page_to_pfn on that page returns the original pfn. Unfortunately, in SPARSEMEM configurations, this results in reading from the page flags to determine the correct section. Since the memmap here has been freed, junk is read from memory and the check is no longer robust. In the best case, reading from /proc/pagetypeinfo will give you the wrong answer. In the worst case, you get SEGVs, Kernel OOPses and hung CPUs. Furthermore, ioremap implementations that use pfn_valid to disallow the remapping of normal memory will break. This patch allows architectures to provide their own pfn_valid function instead of using the default implementation used by sparsemem. The architecture-specific version is aware of the memmap state and will return false when passed a pfn for a freed page within a valid section. Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 7275009686e..5be55d950ab 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1516,6 +1516,9 @@ config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
def_bool ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
+config HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
+ def_bool ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL || !SPARSEMEM
+
config HIGHMEM
bool "High Memory Support"
depends on MMU