linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.10 12/44] pstore-ram: Fix hangs by using write-combine mappings

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Message-Id: <20150114072228.180973750@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:23:33 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.10 12/44] pstore-ram: Fix hangs by using write-combine mappings

3.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>

commit 7ae9cb81933515dc7db1aa3c47ef7653717e3090 upstream.

Currently trying to use pstore on at least ARMs can hang as we're
mapping the peristent RAM with pgprot_noncached().

On ARMs, pgprot_noncached() will actually make the memory strongly
ordered, and as the atomic operations pstore uses are implementation
defined for strongly ordered memory, they may not work. So basically
atomic operations have undefined behavior on ARM for device or strongly
ordered memory types.

Let's fix the issue by using write-combine variants for mappings. This
corresponds to normal, non-cacheable memory on ARM. For many other
architectures, this change does not change the mapping type as by
default we have:

#define pgprot_writecombine pgprot_noncached

The reason why pgprot_noncached() was originaly used for pstore
is because Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com> had observed lost
debug prints right before a device hanging write operation on some
systems. For the platforms supporting pgprot_noncached(), we can
add a an optional configuration option to support that. But let's
get pstore working first before adding new features.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>
[tony@...mide.com: updated description]
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/pstore/ram_core.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static void *persistent_ram_vmap(phys_ad
 	page_start = start - offset_in_page(start);
 	page_count = DIV_ROUND_UP(size + offset_in_page(start), PAGE_SIZE);

-	prot = pgprot_noncached(PAGE_KERNEL);
+	prot = pgprot_writecombine(PAGE_KERNEL);

 	pages = kmalloc(sizeof(struct page *) * page_count, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pages) {
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static void *persistent_ram_iomap(phys_a
 		return NULL;
 	}

-	return ioremap(start, size);
+	return ioremap_wc(start, size);
 }

 static int persistent_ram_buffer_map(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t size,

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