linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 RESEND 4/11] x86/asm: Fix pud/pmd interfaces to handle large PAT bit

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Message-ID: <5640F673.8070400@oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:39:31 -0500
From:	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>, hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bp@...en8.de, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, jgross@...e.com,
	konrad.wilk@...cle.com, elliott@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 RESEND 4/11] x86/asm: Fix pud/pmd interfaces to handle
 large PAT bit

On 11/09/2015 02:16 PM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 13:06 -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 09/17/2015 02:24 PM, Toshi Kani wrote:
>>> Now that we have pud/pmd mask interfaces, which handle pfn & flags
>>> mask properly for the large PAT bit.
>>>
>>> Fix pud/pmd pfn & flags interfaces by replacing PTE_PFN_MASK and
>>> PTE_FLAGS_MASK with the pud/pmd mask interfaces.
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>
>>> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
>>> Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>>> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
>>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
>>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
>>> ---
>>>    arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h       |   14 ++++++++------
>>>    arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h |    4 ++--
>>>    2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>> Looks like this commit is causing this splat for 32-bit kernels. I am
>> attaching my config file, just in case.
> Thanks for the report!  I'd like to reproduce the issue since I am not sure how
> this change caused it...
>
> I tried to build a kernel with the attached config file, and got the following
> error.  Not sure what I am missing.
>
> ----
> $ make -j24 ARCH=i386
>     :
>    LD      drivers/built-in.o
>    LINK    vmlinux
> ./.config: line 44: $'\r': command not found

I wonder whether my email client added ^Ms to the file that I send. It 
shouldn't have.

> Makefile:929: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 127
> ----
>
> Do you have steps to reproduce the issue?  Or do you see it during boot-time?

This always happens just after system has booted, it may still be going 
over init scripts. I am booting with ramdisk, don't know whether it has 
anything to do with this problem.

FWIW, it looks like pmd_pfn_mask() inline is causing this. Reverting it 
alone makes this crash go away.


-boris
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