| e4f9ab03 | 07-Apr-2026 |
Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com> |
PCI: s390: Expose the UID as an arch specific PCI slot attribute
On s390, an individual PCI function can generally be identified by two identifiers, the FID and the UID. Which identifier is used dep
PCI: s390: Expose the UID as an arch specific PCI slot attribute
On s390, an individual PCI function can generally be identified by two identifiers, the FID and the UID. Which identifier is used depends on the scope and the platform configuration.
The first identifier, the FID, is always available and identifies a PCI device uniquely within a machine. The FID may be virtualized by hypervisors, but on the LPAR level, the machine scope makes it impossible to create the same configuration based on FIDs on two different LPARs of the same machine, and difficult to reuse across machines.
Such matching LPAR configurations are useful, though, allowing standardized setups and booting a Linux installation on different LPARs. To this end the UID, or user-defined identifier, was introduced. While it is only guaranteed to be unique within an LPAR and only if indicated by firmware, it allows users to replicate PCI device setups.
On s390, which uses a machine hypervisor, a per PCI function hotplug model is used. The shortcoming with the UID then is, that it is not visible to the user without first attaching the PCI function and accessing the "uid" device attribute. The FID, on the other hand, is used as the slot name and is thus known even with the PCI function in standby.
Remedy this shortcoming by providing the UID as an attribute on the slot allowing the user to identify a PCI function based on the UID without having to first attach it. Do this via a macro mechanism analogous to what was introduced by commit 265baca69a07 ("s390/pci: Stop usurping pdev->dev.groups") for the PCI device attributes.
Reviewed-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Julian Ruess <julianr@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> # drivers/pci/slot.c Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260407-uid_slot-v8-2-15ae4409d2ce@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
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| c98d2eca | 01-Mar-2024 |
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> |
s390/mm: Uncouple physical vs virtual address spaces
The uncoupling physical vs virtual address spaces brings the following benefits to s390:
- virtual memory layout flexibility; - closes the addre
s390/mm: Uncouple physical vs virtual address spaces
The uncoupling physical vs virtual address spaces brings the following benefits to s390:
- virtual memory layout flexibility; - closes the address gap between kernel and modules, it caused s390-only problems in the past (e.g. 'perf' bugs); - allows getting rid of trampolines used for module calls into kernel; - allows simplifying BPF trampoline; - minor performance improvement in branch prediction; - kernel randomization entropy is magnitude bigger, as it is derived from the amount of available virtual, not physical memory;
The whole change could be described in two pictures below: before and after the change.
Some aspects of the virtual memory layout setup are not clarified (number of page levels, alignment, DMA memory), since these are not a part of this change or secondary with regard to how the uncoupling itself is implemented.
The focus of the pictures is to explain why __va() and __pa() macros are implemented the way they are.
Memory layout in V==R mode:
| Physical | Virtual | +- 0 --------------+- 0 --------------+ identity mapping start | | S390_lowcore | Low-address memory | +- 8 KB -----------+ | | | | | identity | phys == virt | | mapping | virt == phys | | | +- AMODE31_START --+- AMODE31_START --+ .amode31 rand. phys/virt start |.amode31 text/data|.amode31 text/data| +- AMODE31_END ----+- AMODE31_END ----+ .amode31 rand. phys/virt start | | | | | | +- __kaslr_offset, __kaslr_offset_phys| kernel rand. phys/virt start | | | | kernel text/data | kernel text/data | phys == kvirt | | | +------------------+------------------+ kernel phys/virt end | | | | | | | | | | | | +- ident_map_size -+- ident_map_size -+ identity mapping end | | | ... unused gap | | | +---- vmemmap -----+ 'struct page' array start | | | virtually mapped | | memory map | | | +- __abs_lowcore --+ | | | Absolute Lowcore | | | +- __memcpy_real_area | | | Real Memory Copy| | | +- VMALLOC_START --+ vmalloc area start | | | vmalloc area | | | +- MODULES_VADDR --+ modules area start | | | modules area | | | +------------------+ UltraVisor Secure Storage limit | | | ... unused gap | | | +KASAN_SHADOW_START+ KASAN shadow memory start | | | KASAN shadow | | | +------------------+ ASCE limit
Memory layout in V!=R mode:
| Physical | Virtual | +- 0 --------------+- 0 --------------+ | | S390_lowcore | Low-address memory | +- 8 KB -----------+ | | | | | | | | ... unused gap | | | | +- AMODE31_START --+- AMODE31_START --+ .amode31 rand. phys/virt start |.amode31 text/data|.amode31 text/data| +- AMODE31_END ----+- AMODE31_END ----+ .amode31 rand. phys/virt end (<2GB) | | | | | | +- __kaslr_offset_phys | kernel rand. phys start | | | | kernel text/data | | | | | +------------------+ | kernel phys end | | | | | | | | | | | | +- ident_map_size -+ | | | | ... unused gap | | | +- __identity_base + identity mapping start (>= 2GB) | | | identity | phys == virt - __identity_base | mapping | virt == phys + __identity_base | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +---- vmemmap -----+ 'struct page' array start | | | virtually mapped | | memory map | | | +- __abs_lowcore --+ | | | Absolute Lowcore | | | +- __memcpy_real_area | | | Real Memory Copy| | | +- VMALLOC_START --+ vmalloc area start | | | vmalloc area | | | +- MODULES_VADDR --+ modules area start | | | modules area | | | +- __kaslr_offset -+ kernel rand. virt start | | | kernel text/data | phys == (kvirt - __kaslr_offset) + | | __kaslr_offset_phys +- kernel .bss end + kernel rand. virt end | | | ... unused gap | | | +------------------+ UltraVisor Secure Storage limit | | | ... unused gap | | | +KASAN_SHADOW_START+ KASAN shadow memory start | | | KASAN shadow | | | +------------------+ ASCE limit
Unused gaps in the virtual memory layout could be present or not - depending on how partucular system is configured. No page tables are created for the unused gaps.
The relative order of vmalloc, modules and kernel image in virtual memory is defined by following considerations:
- start of the modules area and end of the kernel should reside within 4GB to accommodate relative 32-bit jumps. The best way to achieve that is to place kernel next to modules;
- vmalloc and module areas should locate next to each other to prevent failures and extra reworks in user level tools (makedumpfile, crash, etc.) which treat vmalloc and module addresses similarily;
- kernel needs to be the last area in the virtual memory layout to easily distinguish between kernel and non-kernel virtual addresses. That is needed to (again) simplify handling of addresses in user level tools and make __pa() macro faster (see below);
Concluding the above, the relative order of the considered virtual areas in memory is: vmalloc - modules - kernel. Therefore, the only change to the current memory layout is moving kernel to the end of virtual address space.
With that approach the implementation of __pa() macro is straightforward - all linear virtual addresses less than kernel base are considered identity mapping:
phys == virt - __identity_base
All addresses greater than kernel base are kernel ones:
phys == (kvirt - __kaslr_offset) + __kaslr_offset_phys
By contrast, __va() macro deals only with identity mapping addresses:
virt == phys + __identity_base
.amode31 section is mapped separately and is not covered by __pa() macro. In fact, it could have been handled easily by checking whether a virtual address is within the section or not, but there is no need for that. Thus, let __pa() code do as little machine cycles as possible.
The KASAN shadow memory is located at the very end of the virtual memory layout, at addresses higher than the kernel. However, that is not a linear mapping and no code other than KASAN instrumentation or API is expected to access it.
When KASLR mode is enabled the kernel base address randomized within a memory window that spans whole unused virtual address space. The size of that window depends from the amount of physical memory available to the system, the limit imposed by UltraVisor (if present) and the vmalloc area size as provided by vmalloc= kernel command line parameter.
In case the virtual memory is exhausted the minimum size of the randomization window is forcefully set to 2GB, which amounts to in 15 bits of entropy if KASAN is enabled or 17 bits of entropy in default configuration.
The default kernel offset 0x100000 is used as a magic value both in the decompressor code and vmlinux linker script, but it will be removed with a follow-up change.
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
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