linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/10] x86, PAT: Sanity check remap_pfn

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:57:41 -0700
From:	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 10/10] x86, PAT: Sanity check remap_pfn_range for RAM region

Add sanity check for remap_pfn_range of RAM regions using
lookup_memtype(). Previously, we did not have anyway to get the type of
RAM memory regions as they were tracked using a single bit in
page_struct (WB, nonWB). Now we can get the actual type from page struct
(WB, WC, UC_MINUS) and make sure the requester gets that type.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pat.c |   24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index b629f75..a6cace0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -783,11 +783,29 @@ static int reserve_pfn_range(u64 paddr, unsigned long size, pgprot_t *vma_prot,
 	is_ram = pat_pagerange_is_ram(paddr, paddr + size);
 
 	/*
-	 * reserve_pfn_range() doesn't support RAM pages. Maintain the current
-	 * behavior with RAM pages by returning success.
+	 * reserve_pfn_range() for RAM pages. We do not refcount to keep
+	 * track of number of mappings of RAM pages. We can assert that
+	 * the type requested matches the type of first page in the range.
 	 */
-	if (is_ram != 0)
+	if (is_ram) {
+		if (!pat_enabled)
+			return 0;
+
+		flags = lookup_memtype(paddr);
+		if (want_flags != flags) {
+			printk(KERN_WARNING
+			"%s:%d map pfn RAM range req %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));
+			*vma_prot = __pgprot((pgprot_val(*vma_prot) &
+					      (~_PAGE_CACHE_MASK)) |
+					     flags);
+		}
 		return 0;
+	}
 
 	ret = reserve_memtype(paddr, paddr + size, want_flags, &flags);
 	if (ret)
-- 
1.6.0.6

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