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Date:   Tue, 4 Jul 2017 19:04:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Bernhard Held <berny156@....de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3] X86: don't report PAT on CPUs that don't support it



On Tue, 4 Jul 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > Is there any progress with this patch? Will you accept it or do you want 
> > some changes to it?
> 
> Aside of the unparseable changelog, that patch is mostly duct tape.
> 
> 1) __pat_enabled should be renamed to pat_disabled, as that is the actual
>    purpose of that variable
> 
> 2) Making the call to init_cache_modes() conditional in setup_arch() is
>    pointless. init_cache_modes() has it's own protection against multiple
>    invocations.
> 
> 3) It adds yet another invocation of init_cache_modes() instead of getting
>    rid of the ones in pat_disable() and the pat disabled case in pat_init().
> 
> I've reworked the whole thing into the patch below.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx

Yes - renaming __pat_enabled to pat_disabled is a good thing.

Just one more change - init_cache_modes() is protected against multiple 
calls, but pat_bsp_init() calls __init_cache_modes() (not 
init_cacha_modes()). The generic code would call init_cache_modes() later 
and init_cache_modes() would do the initialization again - it would be 
mostly harmless because it would just read the pat MSR that pat_bsp_init 
have written and call __init_cache_modes() with the same value - the 
symptom is that on machines with PAT we see this line twice in the syslog:

[    0.000000] x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: WB  WC  UC- UC  WB  WC  UC- WT
[    0.000000] x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: WB  WC  UC- UC  WB  WC  UC- WT

I fixed this double initialization by moving the variable init_cm_done to 
file scope and setting it in __init_cache_modes().

Mikulas


8<---------------------
Subject: x86/mm/pat: Don't report PAT on CPUs that don't support it
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 18:49:39 -0400 (EDT)

The pat_enabled() logic is broken on CPUs which do not support PAT and
where the initialization code fails to call pat_init(). Due to that the
enabled flag stays true and pat_enabled() returns true wrongfully.

As a consequence the mappings, e.g. for Xorg, are set up with the wrong
caching mode and the required MTRR setups are omitted.

To cure this the following changes are required:

  1) Make pat_enabled() return true only if PAT initialization was
     invoked and successful.

  2) Invoke init_cache_modes() unconditionally in setup_arch() and
     remove the extra callsites in pat_disable() and the pat disabled
     code path in pat_init().

Also rename __pat_enabled to pat_disabled to reflect the real purpose of
this variable.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Cc: Bernhard Held <berny156@....de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org	# v4.2+

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h |    1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c    |    7 +++++++
 arch/x86/mm/pat.c          |   28 ++++++++++++----------------
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 bool pat_enabled(void);
 void pat_disable(const char *reason);
 extern void pat_init(void);
+extern void init_cache_modes(void);
 
 extern int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end,
 		enum page_cache_mode req_pcm, enum page_cache_mode *ret_pcm);
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1076,6 +1076,13 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	max_possible_pfn = max_pfn;
 
 	/*
+	 * This call is required when the CPU does not support PAT. If
+	 * mtrr_bp_init() invoked it already via pat_init() the call has no
+	 * effect.
+	 */
+	init_cache_modes();
+
+	/*
 	 * Define random base addresses for memory sections after max_pfn is
 	 * defined and before each memory section base is used.
 	 */
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@
 #undef pr_fmt
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "" fmt
 
-static bool boot_cpu_done;
-
-static int __read_mostly __pat_enabled = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_PAT);
-static void init_cache_modes(void);
+static bool __read_mostly boot_cpu_done;
+static bool __read_mostly pat_disabled = !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_PAT);
+static bool __read_mostly pat_initialized;
+static bool __read_mostly init_cm_done;
 
 void pat_disable(const char *reason)
 {
-	if (!__pat_enabled)
+	if (pat_disabled)
 		return;
 
 	if (boot_cpu_done) {
@@ -52,10 +52,8 @@ void pat_disable(const char *reason)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	__pat_enabled = 0;
+	pat_disabled = true;
 	pr_info("x86/PAT: %s\n", reason);
-
-	init_cache_modes();
 }
 
 static int __init nopat(char *str)
@@ -67,7 +65,7 @@ early_param("nopat", nopat);
 
 bool pat_enabled(void)
 {
-	return !!__pat_enabled;
+	return pat_initialized;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pat_enabled);
 
@@ -205,6 +203,8 @@ static void __init_cache_modes(u64 pat)
 		update_cache_mode_entry(i, cache);
 	}
 	pr_info("x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: %s\n", pat_msg);
+
+	init_cm_done = true;
 }
 
 #define PAT(x, y)	((u64)PAT_ ## y << ((x)*8))
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ static void pat_bsp_init(u64 pat)
 	}
 
 	wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
+	pat_initialized = true;
 
 	__init_cache_modes(pat);
 }
@@ -242,10 +243,9 @@ static void pat_ap_init(u64 pat)
 	wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
 }
 
-static void init_cache_modes(void)
+void init_cache_modes(void)
 {
 	u64 pat = 0;
-	static int init_cm_done;
 
 	if (init_cm_done)
 		return;
@@ -287,8 +287,6 @@ static void init_cache_modes(void)
 	}
 
 	__init_cache_modes(pat);
-
-	init_cm_done = 1;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -306,10 +304,8 @@ void pat_init(void)
 	u64 pat;
 	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &boot_cpu_data;
 
-	if (!pat_enabled()) {
-		init_cache_modes();
+	if (pat_disabled)
 		return;
-	}
 
 	if ((c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL) &&
 	    (((c->x86 == 0x6) && (c->x86_model <= 0xd)) ||

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