[PULL 1/5] tcg: Do not set guard pages on the rx portion of code_gen_buffer

Richard Henderson posted 5 patches 4 years, 10 months ago
Maintainers: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
[PULL 1/5] tcg: Do not set guard pages on the rx portion of code_gen_buffer
Posted by Richard Henderson 4 years, 10 months ago
The rw portion of the buffer is the only one in which overruns
can be generated.  Allow the rx portion to be more completely
covered by huge pages.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>
Message-Id: <20210320165720.1813545-2-richard.henderson@linaro.org>
---
 tcg/tcg.c | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tcg/tcg.c b/tcg/tcg.c
index de91bb6e9e..88c9e6f8a4 100644
--- a/tcg/tcg.c
+++ b/tcg/tcg.c
@@ -828,7 +828,6 @@ void tcg_region_init(void)
     size_t region_size;
     size_t n_regions;
     size_t i;
-    uintptr_t splitwx_diff;
 
     n_regions = tcg_n_regions();
 
@@ -858,8 +857,11 @@ void tcg_region_init(void)
     /* account for that last guard page */
     region.end -= page_size;
 
-    /* set guard pages */
-    splitwx_diff = tcg_splitwx_diff;
+    /*
+     * Set guard pages in the rw buffer, as that's the one into which
+     * buffer overruns could occur.  Do not set guard pages in the rx
+     * buffer -- let that one use hugepages throughout.
+     */
     for (i = 0; i < region.n; i++) {
         void *start, *end;
         int rc;
@@ -867,10 +869,6 @@ void tcg_region_init(void)
         tcg_region_bounds(i, &start, &end);
         rc = qemu_mprotect_none(end, page_size);
         g_assert(!rc);
-        if (splitwx_diff) {
-            rc = qemu_mprotect_none(end + splitwx_diff, page_size);
-            g_assert(!rc);
-        }
     }
 
     tcg_region_trees_init();
-- 
2.25.1