* Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 03:07:39PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > From: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Kernel page table isolation requires to have two PGDs. One for the kernel,
> > which contains the full kernel mapping plus the user space mapping and one
> > for user space which contains the user space mappings and the minimal set
> > of kernel mappings which are required by the architecture to be able to
> > transition from and to user space.
> > 
> > Add the necessary preliminaries.
> > 
> > [ tglx: Split out from the big kaiser dump ]
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> > 
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S |   30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c     |   16 ++++++++++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> ...
> 
> > --- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
> > @@ -355,14 +355,26 @@ static inline void _pgd_free(pgd_t *pgd)
> >             kmem_cache_free(pgd_cache, pgd);
> >  }
> >  #else
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION
> > +/*
> > + * Instead of one pgd, we aquire two pgds.  Being order-1, it is
> 
> "acquire"

Fixed. I also did a s/pgd/PGD

> Otherwise:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>

Thanks!

        Ingo

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