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    x86/mm: Introduce "default" kernel PTE mask · 8a57f484
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    The __PAGE_KERNEL_* page permissions are "raw".  They contain bits
    that may or may not be supported on the current processor.  They need
    to be filtered by a mask (currently __supported_pte_mask) to turn them
    into a value that we can actually set in a PTE.
    
    These __PAGE_KERNEL_* values all contain _PAGE_GLOBAL.  But, with PTI,
    we want to be able to support _PAGE_GLOBAL (have the bit set in
    __supported_pte_mask) but not have it appear in any of these masks by
    default.
    
    This patch creates a new mask, __default_kernel_pte_mask, and applies
    it when creating all of the PAGE_KERNEL_* masks.  This makes
    PAGE_KERNEL_* safe to use anywhere (they only contain supported bits).
    It also ensures that PAGE_KERNEL_* contains _PAGE_GLOBAL on PTI=n
    kernels but clears _PAGE_GLOBAL when PTI=y.
    
    We also make __default_kernel_pte_mask a non-GPL exported symbol
    because there are plenty of driver-available interfaces that take
    PAGE_KERNEL_* permissions.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
    Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406205506.030DB6B6@viggo.jf.intel.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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