linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/1] Fixup write permission of TLB on powerpc e500 core

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:44:05 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	MailingLists <haishan.bai@...il.com>
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	walken@...gle.com, dhowells@...hat.com, cmetcalf@...era.com,
	tony.luck@...el.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Fixup write permission of TLB on powerpc e500 core

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 16:38 +0800, MailingLists wrote:
> On 07/15/2011 04:20 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 16:07 +0800, Shan Hai wrote:
> >> The following test case could reveal a bug in the futex_lock_pi()
> >>
> >> BUG: On FUTEX_LOCK_PI, there is a infinite loop in the futex_lock_pi()
> >>          on Powerpc e500 core.
> >> Cause: The linux kernel on the e500 core has no write permission on
> >>          the COW page, refer the head comment of the following test code.
> >>
> >> ftrace on test case:
> >> [000]   353.990181: futex_lock_pi_atomic<-futex_lock_pi
> >> [000]   353.990185: cmpxchg_futex_value_locked<-futex_lock_pi_atomic
> >> [snip]
> >> [000]   353.990191: do_page_fault<-handle_page_fault
> >> [000]   353.990192: bad_page_fault<-handle_page_fault
> >> [000]   353.990193: search_exception_tables<-bad_page_fault
> >> [snip]
> >> [000]   353.990199: get_user_pages<-fault_in_user_writeable
> >> [snip]
> >> [000]   353.990208: mark_page_accessed<-follow_page
> >> [000]   353.990222: futex_lock_pi_atomic<-futex_lock_pi
> >> [snip]
> >> [000]   353.990230: cmpxchg_futex_value_locked<-futex_lock_pi_atomic
> >> [ a loop occures here ]
> >>
> >
> > But but but but, that get_user_pages(.write=1, .force=0) should result
> > in a COW break, getting our own writable page.
> >
> > What is this e500 thing smoking that this doesn't work?
> 
> A page could be set to read only by the kernel (supervisor in the powerpc
> literature) on the e500, and that's what the kernel do. Set SW(supervisor
> write) bit in the TLB entry to grant write permission to the kernel on a
> page.
> 
> And further the SW bit is set according to the DIRTY flag of the PTE,
> PTE.DIRTY is set in the do_page_fault(), the futex_lock_pi() disabled
> page fault, the PTE.DIRTY never can be set, so do the SW bit, unbreakable
> COW occurred, infinite loop followed.

I'm fairly sure fault_in_user_writeable() has PF enabled as it takes
mmap_sem, an pagefaul_disable() is akin to preemp_disable() on mainline.

Also get_user_pages() fully expects to be able to schedule, and in fact
can call the full pf handler path all by its lonesome self.
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