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| author | Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> | 2026-09-04 01:33:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> | 2026-09-04 12:58:04 +0200 |
| commit | 836b2fe544a5e9b5ce116622cb36fba33838c6fd (patch) | |
| tree | 95e38e4aaa0a6a78e373148b3d0af4aa2ab3d371 /Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst | |
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selftests/bpf: Check that JMP32 pointer vs zero jumps are not predictedgrafted
Add jmp32_ptr_vs_zero_jne: the fall-through of the 32-bit compare, which
the verifier used to skip, contains an out of bounds map value access,
hence w/o the previous patch the program is accepted. See previous patch
for detailed description.
Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com>
Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260904083325.2083493-6-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7274204b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +======================== +The io_mapping functions +======================== + +API +=== + +The io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h provide an abstraction for +efficiently mapping small regions of an I/O device to the CPU. The initial +usage is to support the large graphics aperture on 32-bit processors where +ioremap_wc cannot be used to statically map the entire aperture to the CPU +as it would consume too much of the kernel address space. + +A mapping object is created during driver initialization using:: + + struct io_mapping *io_mapping_create_wc(unsigned long base, + unsigned long size) + +'base' is the bus address of the region to be made +mappable, while 'size' indicates how large a mapping region to +enable. Both are in bytes. + +This _wc variant provides a mapping which may only be used with +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc(), io_mapping_map_local_wc() or +io_mapping_map_wc(). + +With this mapping object, individual pages can be mapped either temporarily +or long term, depending on the requirements. Of course, temporary maps are +more efficient. They come in two flavours:: + + void *io_mapping_map_local_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, + unsigned long offset) + + void *io_mapping_map_atomic_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, + unsigned long offset) + +'offset' is the offset within the defined mapping region. Accessing +addresses beyond the region specified in the creation function yields +undefined results. Using an offset which is not page aligned yields an +undefined result. The return value points to a single page in CPU address +space. + +This _wc variant returns a write-combining map to the page and may only be +used with mappings created by io_mapping_create_wc() + +Temporary mappings are only valid in the context of the caller. The mapping +is not guaranteed to be globally visible. + +io_mapping_map_local_wc() has a side effect on X86 32bit as it disables +migration to make the mapping code work. No caller can rely on this side +effect. + +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() has the side effect of disabling preemption and +pagefaults. Don't use in new code. Use io_mapping_map_local_wc() instead. + +Nested mappings need to be undone in reverse order because the mapping +code uses a stack for keeping track of them:: + + addr1 = io_mapping_map_local_wc(map1, offset1); + addr2 = io_mapping_map_local_wc(map2, offset2); + ... + io_mapping_unmap_local(addr2); + io_mapping_unmap_local(addr1); + +The mappings are released with:: + + void io_mapping_unmap_local(void *vaddr) + void io_mapping_unmap_atomic(void *vaddr) + +'vaddr' must be the value returned by the last io_mapping_map_local_wc() or +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() call. This unmaps the specified mapping and +undoes the side effects of the mapping functions. + +If you need to sleep while holding a mapping, you can use the regular +variant, although this may be significantly slower:: + + void *io_mapping_map_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, + unsigned long offset) + +This works like io_mapping_map_atomic/local_wc() except it has no side +effects and the pointer is globally visible. + +The mappings are released with:: + + void io_mapping_unmap(void *vaddr) + +Use for pages mapped with io_mapping_map_wc(). + +At driver close time, the io_mapping object must be freed:: + + void io_mapping_free(struct io_mapping *mapping) |
