From: Ard Biesheuvel Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 15:11:57 +0000 (+0200) Subject: arm64: mm: Defer remap of linear alias of data/bss X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53205d56212cbff880a77497e25a0e44036d490a;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git arm64: mm: Defer remap of linear alias of data/bss Marking the linear alias of data/bss invalid involves calling set_memory_valid(), which calls split_kernel_leaf_mapping() under the hood. On BBML2_NOABORT capable systems, this may result in the need to allocate page tables at a time when the generic memory allocation APIs are not yet available, resulting in a splat like WARNING: arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c:821 at split_kernel_leaf_mapping+0x15c/0x170, CPU#0: swapper/0 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 7.1.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT(undef) pstate: a04000c9 (NzCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : split_kernel_leaf_mapping+0x15c/0x170 lr : update_range_prot+0x40/0x128 sp : ffffc99ad3863c80 ... Call trace: split_kernel_leaf_mapping+0x15c/0x170 (P) update_range_prot+0x40/0x128 set_memory_valid+0x94/0xe0 mark_linear_data_alias_valid+0x54/0x68 map_mem+0x1fc/0x240 paging_init+0x48/0x210 setup_arch+0x274/0x338 start_kernel+0x98/0x538 __primary_switched+0x88/0x98 as reported by CKI automated testing. So defer the boot-time call to mark_linear_data_alias_valid() to a later time when page allocations can be made normally. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c index d68e691c093a5..3134f1c1097ca 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c @@ -1095,6 +1095,9 @@ void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void) (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)_text, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); + /* Map the kernel data/bss as invalid in the linear map */ + mark_linear_data_alias_valid(false); + /* * Register a PM notifier to remap the linear alias of data/bss as * valid read-only before hibernation. This is needed because the @@ -1237,9 +1240,6 @@ static void __init map_mem(void) __map_memblock(start, end, pgprot_tagged(PAGE_KERNEL), flags); } - - /* Map the kernel data/bss as invalid in the linear map */ - mark_linear_data_alias_valid(false); } void mark_rodata_ro(void)