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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:29:12 -0800
From: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Cc: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] x86 fixes
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:19:35AM -0800, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:01:57AM -0800, Torsten Kaiser wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Pallipadi, Venkatesh
> > <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't seem to be able to reproduce this failure on my test systems..
> > > What distribution are you using here? Can you send me the kernel config that you used.
> >
> > I'm using Gentoo, the compiler is:
> > gcc (Gentoo 4.3.2-r2 p1.5, pie-10.1.5) 4.3.2
> >
> > The system has 2x 2218 Opterons with 4GB of RAM, so it a NUMA system
> > with 2 nodes.
> > What might be important is, that I switched to the new TREE_RCU:
> > # CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU is not set
> > CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y
> > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU is not set
> > # CONFIG_RCU_TRACE is not set
> > CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=4
> > # CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT is not set
> > # CONFIG_TREE_RCU_TRACE is not set
> > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU_TRACE is not set
> >
> > Rest of the .config is attached. I used the same .config for the
> > vanilla 2.6.29-rc1 that worked apart from the DRM trouble that was
> > also reported by others and the version patched with these fixes.
> >
>
> I will try with this config. Meanwhile can you try the single patch below
> over 2.6.29-rc1 and see whether you still see the failure. This patch
> is fixing the DRM issue that you had seen and does not include other fixes
> cleaups that were in the patch series. If you still see the failure, can yo
> usend me the full boot log from the crash.
>
oops. I missed out one file in the earlier test patch. Below is the
updated test patch that will go against 29-rc1.
Thanks,
Venki
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipad@...el.com>
---
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/pat.c 2009-01-12 10:45:03.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/pat.c 2009-01-12 11:06:43.000000000 -0800
@@ -601,12 +601,13 @@ void unmap_devmem(unsigned long pfn, uns
* Reserved non RAM regions only and after successful reserve_memtype,
* this func also keeps identity mapping (if any) in sync with this new prot.
*/
-static int reserve_pfn_range(u64 paddr, unsigned long size, pgprot_t vma_prot)
+static int reserve_pfn_range(u64 paddr, unsigned long size, pgprot_t *vma_prot,
+ int strict_prot)
{
int is_ram = 0;
int id_sz, ret;
unsigned long flags;
- unsigned long want_flags = (pgprot_val(vma_prot) & _PAGE_CACHE_MASK);
+ unsigned long want_flags = (pgprot_val(*vma_prot) & _PAGE_CACHE_MASK);
is_ram = pagerange_is_ram(paddr, paddr + size);
@@ -625,15 +626,29 @@ static int reserve_pfn_range(u64 paddr,
return ret;
if (flags != want_flags) {
- free_memtype(paddr, paddr + size);
- printk(KERN_ERR
- "%s:%d map pfn expected mapping type %s for %Lx-%Lx, got %s\n",
- current->comm, current->pid,
- cattr_name(want_flags),
- (unsigned long long)paddr,
- (unsigned long long)(paddr + size),
- cattr_name(flags));
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (strict_prot ||
+ (want_flags == _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS &&
+ flags == _PAGE_CACHE_WB) ||
+ (want_flags == _PAGE_CACHE_WC &&
+ flags == _PAGE_CACHE_WB)) {
+ free_memtype(paddr, paddr + size);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s:%d map pfn expected mapping type %s"
+ " for %Lx-%Lx, got %s\n",
+ current->comm, current->pid,
+ cattr_name(want_flags),
+ (unsigned long long)paddr,
+ (unsigned long long)(paddr + size),
+ cattr_name(flags));
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ /*
+ * We allow returning different type than the one requested in
+ * non strict case.
+ */
+ *vma_prot = __pgprot((pgprot_val(*vma_prot) &
+ (~_PAGE_CACHE_MASK)) |
+ flags);
+
}
/* Need to keep identity mapping in sync */
@@ -689,6 +704,7 @@ int track_pfn_vma_copy(struct vm_area_st
unsigned long vma_start = vma->vm_start;
unsigned long vma_end = vma->vm_end;
unsigned long vma_size = vma_end - vma_start;
+ pgprot_t pgprot;
if (!pat_enabled)
return 0;
@@ -702,7 +718,8 @@ int track_pfn_vma_copy(struct vm_area_st
WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
return -EINVAL;
}
- return reserve_pfn_range(paddr, vma_size, __pgprot(prot));
+ pgprot = __pgprot(prot);
+ return reserve_pfn_range(paddr, vma_size, &pgprot, 1);
}
/* reserve entire vma page by page, using pfn and prot from pte */
@@ -710,7 +727,8 @@ int track_pfn_vma_copy(struct vm_area_st
if (follow_phys(vma, vma_start + i, 0, &prot, &paddr))
continue;
- retval = reserve_pfn_range(paddr, PAGE_SIZE, __pgprot(prot));
+ pgprot = __pgprot(prot);
+ retval = reserve_pfn_range(paddr, PAGE_SIZE, &pgprot, 1);
if (retval)
goto cleanup_ret;
}
@@ -741,7 +759,7 @@ cleanup_ret:
* Note that this function can be called with caller trying to map only a
* subrange/page inside the vma.
*/
-int track_pfn_vma_new(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t prot,
+int track_pfn_vma_new(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t *prot,
unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size)
{
int retval = 0;
@@ -758,14 +776,14 @@ int track_pfn_vma_new(struct vm_area_str
if (is_linear_pfn_mapping(vma)) {
/* reserve the whole chunk starting from vm_pgoff */
paddr = (resource_size_t)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
- return reserve_pfn_range(paddr, vma_size, prot);
+ return reserve_pfn_range(paddr, vma_size, prot, 0);
}
/* reserve page by page using pfn and size */
base_paddr = (resource_size_t)pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
for (i = 0; i < size; i += PAGE_SIZE) {
paddr = base_paddr + i;
- retval = reserve_pfn_range(paddr, PAGE_SIZE, prot);
+ retval = reserve_pfn_range(paddr, PAGE_SIZE, prot, 0);
if (retval)
goto cleanup_ret;
}
Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c 2009-01-12 10:45:03.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6/mm/memory.c 2009-01-12 10:59:30.000000000 -0800
@@ -1511,6 +1511,7 @@ int vm_insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct
unsigned long pfn)
{
int ret;
+ pgprot_t pgprot = vma->vm_page_prot;
/*
* Technically, architectures with pte_special can avoid all these
* restrictions (same for remap_pfn_range). However we would like
@@ -1525,10 +1526,10 @@ int vm_insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct
if (addr < vma->vm_start || addr >= vma->vm_end)
return -EFAULT;
- if (track_pfn_vma_new(vma, vma->vm_page_prot, pfn, PAGE_SIZE))
+ if (track_pfn_vma_new(vma, &pgprot, pfn, PAGE_SIZE))
return -EINVAL;
- ret = insert_pfn(vma, addr, pfn, vma->vm_page_prot);
+ ret = insert_pfn(vma, addr, pfn, pgprot);
if (ret)
untrack_pfn_vma(vma, pfn, PAGE_SIZE);
@@ -1671,9 +1672,15 @@ int remap_pfn_range(struct vm_area_struc
vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_RESERVED | VM_PFNMAP;
- err = track_pfn_vma_new(vma, prot, pfn, PAGE_ALIGN(size));
- if (err)
+ err = track_pfn_vma_new(vma, &prot, pfn, PAGE_ALIGN(size));
+ if (err) {
+ /*
+ * To indicate that track_pfn related cleanup is not
+ * needed from higher level routine calling unmap_vmas
+ */
+ vma->vm_flags &= ~(VM_IO | VM_RESERVED | VM_PFNMAP);
return -EINVAL;
+ }
BUG_ON(addr >= end);
pfn -= addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 72ebe91..8e6d0ca 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static inline void ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct mm_struct *mm,
* track_pfn_vma_new is called when a _new_ pfn mapping is being established
* for physical range indicated by pfn and size.
*/
-static inline int track_pfn_vma_new(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t prot,
+static inline int track_pfn_vma_new(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t *prot,
unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size)
{
return 0;
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static inline void untrack_pfn_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
{
}
#else
-extern int track_pfn_vma_new(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t prot,
+extern int track_pfn_vma_new(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t *prot,
unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size);
extern int track_pfn_vma_copy(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
extern void untrack_pfn_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long pfn,
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