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Message-ID: <20100430153442.GA18064@localhost>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:34:42 +0800
From: Liang Li <liang.li@...driver.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
wangchen@...fujitsu.com, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
yinghai@...nel.org, jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com,
konrad.wilk@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH] x86: let 'reservetop' functioning right
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:22:05PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Liang Li <liang.li@...driver.com> wrote:
>
> > When specify 'reservetop=0xbadc0de' kernel parameter, the kernel will
> > stop booting due to a early_ioremap bug that relate to commit 8827247ff.
> >
> > The root cause of boot failure problem is the value of 'slot_virt[i]'
> > was initialized in setup_arch->early_ioremap_init. But later in
> > setup_arch, the function 'parse_early_param' will modify 'FIXADDR_TOP'
> > when 'reservetop=0xbadc0de' being specified.
> >
> > The simplest fix might be use __fix_to_virt(idx0) to get updated value
> > of 'FIXADDR_TOP' in '__early_ioremap' instead of reference old value
> > from slot_virt[slot] directly.
> >
> > Changelog since v0:
> >
> > -v1: When reservetop being handled then FIXADDR_TOP get adjusted, Hence
> > check prev_map then re-initialize slot_virt and PMD based on new
> > FIXADDR_TOP.
> >
> > -v2: place fixup_early_ioremap hence call early_ioremap_init in
> > reserve_top_address to re-initialize slot_virt and corresponding PMD
> > when parse_reservertop
> >
> > -v3: move fixup_early_ioremap out of reserve_top_address to make sure
> > other clients of reserve_top_address like xen/lguest won't broken
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.li@...driver.com>
> > Cc: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> > Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
> > Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
> > ---
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just resend the patch according to Ingo's demand.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > arch/x86/include/asm/io.h | 1 +
> > arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> > arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c | 1 +
> > 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> Applied, thanks. Note, i cleaned up the fixup_early_ioremap() code (and
> changed the BUG_ON to WARN_ON - we dont want to crash the box), mind double
> checking the end result? See the commit below.
Checked. It is fine. Thanks. :)
Regards,
-Liang Li
>
> Ingo
>
> ----------------->
> >From e67a807f3d9a82fa91817871f1c0e2e04da993b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Liang Li <liang.li@...driver.com>
> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:01:51 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: Fix 'reservetop=' functionality
>
> When specifying the 'reservetop=0xbadc0de' kernel parameter,
> the kernel will stop booting due to a early_ioremap bug that
> relates to commit 8827247ff.
>
> The root cause of boot failure problem is the value of
> 'slot_virt[i]' was initialized in setup_arch->early_ioremap_init().
> But later in setup_arch, the function 'parse_early_param' will
> modify 'FIXADDR_TOP' when 'reservetop=0xbadc0de' being specified.
>
> The simplest fix might be use __fix_to_virt(idx0) to get updated
> value of 'FIXADDR_TOP' in '__early_ioremap' instead of reference
> old value from slot_virt[slot] directly.
>
> Changelog since v0:
>
> -v1: When reservetop being handled then FIXADDR_TOP get
> adjusted, Hence check prev_map then re-initialize slot_virt and
> PMD based on new FIXADDR_TOP.
>
> -v2: place fixup_early_ioremap hence call early_ioremap_init in
> reserve_top_address to re-initialize slot_virt and
> corresponding PMD when parse_reservertop
>
> -v3: move fixup_early_ioremap out of reserve_top_address to make
> sure other clients of reserve_top_address like xen/lguest won't
> broken
>
> Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.li@...driver.com>
> Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
> Cc: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> LKML-Reference: <1272621711-8683-1-git-send-email-liang.li@...driver.com>
> [ fixed three small cleanliness details in fixup_early_ioremap() ]
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/io.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
> index a1dcfa3..30a3e97 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
> @@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ extern void __iomem *early_ioremap(resource_size_t phys_addr,
> extern void __iomem *early_memremap(resource_size_t phys_addr,
> unsigned long size);
> extern void early_iounmap(void __iomem *addr, unsigned long size);
> +extern void fixup_early_ioremap(void);
>
> #define IO_SPACE_LIMIT 0xffff
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
> index 5eb1ba7..12e4d2d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
> @@ -448,6 +448,20 @@ static inline void __init early_clear_fixmap(enum fixed_addresses idx)
> static void __iomem *prev_map[FIX_BTMAPS_SLOTS] __initdata;
> static unsigned long prev_size[FIX_BTMAPS_SLOTS] __initdata;
>
> +void __init fixup_early_ioremap(void)
> +{
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < FIX_BTMAPS_SLOTS; i++) {
> + if (prev_map[i]) {
> + WARN_ON(1);
> + break;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + early_ioremap_init();
> +}
> +
> static int __init check_early_ioremap_leak(void)
> {
> int count = 0;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
> index 1a8faf0..26eadaa 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ static int __init parse_reservetop(char *arg)
>
> address = memparse(arg, &arg);
> reserve_top_address(address);
> + fixup_early_ioremap();
> return 0;
> }
> early_param("reservetop", parse_reservetop);
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