Re: [PATCH] riscv: uaccess: Allow the last potential unrolled copy

[Alexandre Ghiti]

Hi Ben,

On 03/05/2024 14:19, Ben Dooks wrote:
> On 03/05/2024 13:16, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> > Hi Xiao,
> >
> > On 13/03/2024 11:33, Xiao Wang wrote:
> > > When the dst buffer pointer points to the last accessible aligned 
> > > addr, we
> > > could still run another iteration of unrolled copy.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang <xiao.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >   arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S | 2 +-
> > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S b/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
> > > index 2e665f8f8fcc..1399d797d81b 100644
> > > --- a/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
> > > +++ b/arch/riscv/lib/uaccess.S
> > > @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(fallback_scalar_usercopy)
> > >       fixup REG_S   t4,  7*SZREG(a0), 10f
> > >       addi    a0, a0, 8*SZREG
> > >       addi    a1, a1, 8*SZREG
> > > -    bltu    a0, t0, 2b
> > > +    bleu    a0, t0, 2b
> > >       addi    t0, t0, 8*SZREG /* revert to original value */
> > >       j    .Lbyte_copy_tail
> >
> >
> > I agree it is still safe to continue for another word_copy here.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Out of interest, has anyone checked if causing a schedule event during
> this code breaks like the last time we had issues with the upstream
> testing?


I vaguely remember something, do you have a link to that discussion by 
chance?


> I did propose saving the state of the user-access flag in the task
> struct


Makes sense, I just took a quick look and SR_SUM is cleared as soon as 
we enter handle_exception() and it does not seem to be restored. Weird 
it works, unless I missed something!


> but we mostly solved it by making sleeping functions stay
> away from the address calculation. This of course may have been done
> already or need to be done if three's long areas where the user-access
> flags can be disabled (generally only a few drivers did this, so we
> may not have come across the problem)
I don't understand what you mean here, would you mind expanding a bit?

Thanks,

Alex