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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:49:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrV6nFQ4tzhxKPSnK+Ec=U8ojY0k_-G2EqEG-WMGT4TkUw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200916072842.3502-1-rppt@kernel.org>
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:28 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> This is an implementation of "secret" mappings backed by a file descriptor.
> I've dropped the boot time reservation patch for now as it is not strictly
> required for the basic usage and can be easily added later either with or
> without CMA.
>
> v5 changes:
> * rebase on v5.9-rc5
> * drop boot time memory reservation patch
>
> v4 changes:
> * rebase on v5.9-rc1
> * Do not redefine PMD_PAGE_ORDER in fs/dax.c, thanks Kirill
> * Make secret mappings exclusive by default and only require flags to
> memfd_secret() system call for uncached mappings, thanks again Kirill :)
>
> v3 changes:
> * Squash kernel-parameters.txt update into the commit that added the
> command line option.
> * Make uncached mode explicitly selectable by architectures. For now enable
> it only on x86.
>
> v2 changes:
> * Follow Michael's suggestion and name the new system call 'memfd_secret'
> * Add kernel-parameters documentation about the boot option
> * Fix i386-tinyconfig regression reported by the kbuild bot.
> CONFIG_SECRETMEM now depends on !EMBEDDED to disable it on small systems
> from one side and still make it available unconditionally on
> architectures that support SET_DIRECT_MAP.
>
> The file descriptor backing secret memory mappings is created using a
> dedicated memfd_secret system call The desired protection mode for the
> memory is configured using flags parameter of the system call. The mmap()
> of the file descriptor created with memfd_secret() will create a "secret"
> memory mapping. The pages in that mapping will be marked as not present in
> the direct map and will have desired protection bits set in the user page
> table. For instance, current implementation allows uncached mappings.
I still have serious concerns with uncached mappings. I'm not saying
I can't be convinced, but I'm not currently convinced that we should
allow user code to create UC mappings on x86.
--Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-16 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-16 7:28 Mike Rapoport
2020-09-16 18:49 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2020-09-16 7:35 Mike Rapoport
2020-09-16 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2020-09-17 5:46 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-17 6:02 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-09-17 6:00 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-09-17 13:27 ` Qian Cai
2020-09-18 18:25 ` Qian Cai
2020-09-21 8:07 ` Stephen Rothwell
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