ARM: 7701/1: mm: Allow arch code to control the user page table ceiling

On architectures where a pgd entry may be shared between user and kernel
(e.g. ARM+LPAE), freeing page tables needs a ceiling other than 0. This
patch introduces a generic USER_PGTABLES_CEILING that arch code can
override. It is the responsibility of the arch code setting the ceiling
to ensure the complete freeing of the page tables (usually in
pgd_free()).

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: commit log; shift_arg_pages(), asm-generic/pgtables.h changes]

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.3+
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index bfd87685fc1f..a59ff51b0166 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -7,6 +7,16 @@
 #include <linux/mm_types.h>
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 
+/*
+ * On almost all architectures and configurations, 0 can be used as the
+ * upper ceiling to free_pgtables(): on many architectures it has the same
+ * effect as using TASK_SIZE.  However, there is one configuration which
+ * must impose a more careful limit, to avoid freeing kernel pgtables.
+ */
+#ifndef USER_PGTABLES_CEILING
+#define USER_PGTABLES_CEILING   0UL
+#endif
+
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS
 extern int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                                  unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep,