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authorAlexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>2023-12-13 21:29:59 +0100
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>2023-12-20 19:48:13 +0100
commiteba2591d99d1f14a04c8a8a845ab0795b93f5646 (patch)
tree3cf33861700ea727208efc0a175d181fe10df5f4 /arch/arm
parentriscv: Use WRITE_ONCE() when setting page table entries (diff)
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mm: Introduce pudp/p4dp/pgdp_get() functions
Instead of directly dereferencing page tables entries, which can cause issues (see commit 20a004e7b017 ("arm64: mm: Use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE when accessing page tables"), let's introduce new functions to get the pud/p4d/pgd entries (the pte and pmd versions already exist). Note that arm pgd_t is actually an array so pgdp_get() is defined as a macro to avoid a build error. Those new functions will be used in subsequent commits by the riscv architecture. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231213203001.179237-3-alexghiti@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 16b02f44c7d3..d657b84b6bf7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ extern pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
extern pgd_t swapper_pg_dir[PTRS_PER_PGD];
+#define pgdp_get(pgpd) READ_ONCE(*pgdp)
+
#define pud_page(pud) pmd_page(__pmd(pud_val(pud)))
#define pud_write(pud) pmd_write(__pmd(pud_val(pud)))