Re: [PATCH v4 RESEND 4/11] x86/asm: Fix pud/pmd interfaces to handle large PAT bit

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Mon Nov 09 2015 - 15:47:18 EST


On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 02:39:31PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 11/09/2015 02:16 PM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> >On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 13:06 -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >>On 09/17/2015 02:24 PM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> >>>Now that we have pud/pmd mask interfaces, which handle pfn & flags
> >>>mask properly for the large PAT bit.
> >>>
> >>>Fix pud/pmd pfn & flags interfaces by replacing PTE_PFN_MASK and
> >>>PTE_FLAGS_MASK with the pud/pmd mask interfaces.
> >>>
> >>>Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
> >>>Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> >>>Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>---
> >>> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 14 ++++++++------
> >>> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 4 ++--
> >>> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>
> >>Looks like this commit is causing this splat for 32-bit kernels. I am
> >>attaching my config file, just in case.
> >Thanks for the report! I'd like to reproduce the issue since I am not sure how
> >this change caused it...
> >
> >I tried to build a kernel with the attached config file, and got the following
> >error. Not sure what I am missing.
> >
> >----
> >$ make -j24 ARCH=i386
> > :
> > LD drivers/built-in.o
> > LINK vmlinux
> >./.config: line 44: $'\r': command not found
>
> I wonder whether my email client added ^Ms to the file that I send. It
> shouldn't have.
>
> >Makefile:929: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed
> >make: *** [vmlinux] Error 127
> >----
> >
> >Do you have steps to reproduce the issue? Or do you see it during boot-time?
>
> This always happens just after system has booted, it may still be going over
> init scripts. I am booting with ramdisk, don't know whether it has anything
> to do with this problem.
>
> FWIW, it looks like pmd_pfn_mask() inline is causing this. Reverting it
> alone makes this crash go away.

Could you check the patch below?

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
index dd5b0aa9dd2f..c1e797266ce9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
@@ -279,17 +279,14 @@ static inline pmdval_t native_pmd_val(pmd_t pmd)
static inline pudval_t pud_pfn_mask(pud_t pud)
{
if (native_pud_val(pud) & _PAGE_PSE)
- return PUD_PAGE_MASK & PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK;
+ return ~((1ULL << PUD_SHIFT) - 1) & PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK;
else
return PTE_PFN_MASK;
}

static inline pudval_t pud_flags_mask(pud_t pud)
{
- if (native_pud_val(pud) & _PAGE_PSE)
- return ~(PUD_PAGE_MASK & (pudval_t)PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK);
- else
- return ~PTE_PFN_MASK;
+ return ~pud_pfn_mask(pud);
}

static inline pudval_t pud_flags(pud_t pud)
@@ -300,17 +297,14 @@ static inline pudval_t pud_flags(pud_t pud)
static inline pmdval_t pmd_pfn_mask(pmd_t pmd)
{
if (native_pmd_val(pmd) & _PAGE_PSE)
- return PMD_PAGE_MASK & PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK;
+ return ~((1ULL << PMD_SHIFT) - 1) & PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK;
else
return PTE_PFN_MASK;
}

static inline pmdval_t pmd_flags_mask(pmd_t pmd)
{
- if (native_pmd_val(pmd) & _PAGE_PSE)
- return ~(PMD_PAGE_MASK & (pmdval_t)PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK);
- else
- return ~PTE_PFN_MASK;
+ return ~pmd_pfn_mask(pmd);
}

static inline pmdval_t pmd_flags(pmd_t pmd)
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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