Re: [PATCH 00/23] [v4] KAISER: unmap most of the kernel from userspace page tables

[Ingo Molnar]

* Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> I've updated these a bit since yesterday with some minor fixes:
>  * Fixed KASLR compile bug
>  * Fixed ds.c compile problem
>  * Changed ulong to pteval_t to fix 32-bit compile problem
>  * Stop mapping cpu_current_top_of_stack (never used until after CR3 switch)
> 
> Rather than re-spamming everyone, the resulting branch is here:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-kaiser.git/log/?h=kaiser-414-tipwip-20171123
> 
> If anyone wants to be re-spammed, just say the word.

So the pteval_t changes break the build on most non-x86 architectures (alpha, 
arm, 
arm64, etc.), because most of them don't have an asm/pgtable_types.h file.

pteval_t is an x86-ism.

So I left out the changes below.

Thanks,

        Ingo

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h
index 35f12a8a7071..2198855f7de9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER
+#include <asm/pgtable_types.h>
+
 /**
  *  kaiser_add_mapping - map a kernel range into the user page tables
  *  @addr: the start address of the range
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@
  *  table.
  */
 extern int kaiser_add_mapping(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size,
-                             unsigned long flags);
+                             pteval_t flags);
 
 /**
  *  kaiser_add_mapping_cpu_entry - map the cpu entry area
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c b/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c
index 1eb27b410556..58cae2924724 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ void __init kaiser_init(void)
 }
 
 int kaiser_add_mapping(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size,
-                      unsigned long flags)
+                      pteval_t flags)
 {
        return kaiser_add_user_map((const void *)addr, size, flags);
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/kaiser.h b/include/linux/kaiser.h
index 83d465599646..f662013515a1 100644
--- a/include/linux/kaiser.h
+++ b/include/linux/kaiser.h
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_KAISER
 #include <asm/kaiser.h>
 #else
+
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
+
+#include <asm/pgtable_types.h>
+
 /*
  * These stubs are used whenever CONFIG_KAISER is off, which
  * includes architectures that support KAISER, but have it
@@ -20,7 +24,7 @@ static inline void kaiser_remove_mapping(unsigned long start, 
unsigned long size
 }
 
 static inline int kaiser_add_mapping(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size,
-                                    unsigned long flags)
+                                    pteval_t flags)
 {
        return 0;
 }