linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] acpi, apei, arm64: APEI initial support for aarch64.

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Message-ID: <20151214123957.GF11630@pd.tnic>
Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:39:57 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Linaro ACPI Mailman List <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	rruigrok@...eaurora.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
	Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>,
	"Abdulhamid, Harb" <harba@....qualcomm.com>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@....com>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>,
	rrichter@...ium.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	G Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
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	jarkko.nikula@...ux.intel.com, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	Jonathan Zhang <jon.zhixiong.zhang@...il.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] acpi, apei, arm64: APEI initial support for aarch64.

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:46:59AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> We're in violent agreement. I'm just saying that's *why*
> arch_apei_flush_tlb_one exists, as opposed to calling unmap_kernel_range
> in the driver (which will attempt IPIs). On arm64, unmap_kernel_range
> will actually work correctly, since we don't need IPIs to broadcast TLB
> maintenance.
> 
> The (incorrect) premise earlier in the thread was that
> arch_apei_flush_tlb_one exists because there's no portable API for
> flushing a single page, but that's simply not true.

Right.

> Yikes, I'd not even thought about that. Perhaps its all serialised
> somehow, but I have no idea.

Yeah, didn't see any serialization there...

> Right, imagine the following sequence of events:
> 
>  1. CPU x takes a GHES IRQ
>  2. CPU x then maps the buffer a page at a time in ghes_copy_tofrom_phys.
>     After each unmap, it performs a local TLBI. Let's say that it has
>     the final page of the buffer mapped when...
>  3. ... CPU y is meanwhile happily executing some other kernel code.
>  4. CPU y's page table walker speculatively fills the TLB with a translation
>     for the last buffer page that CPU x has mapped (because its just been
>     mapped with ioremap_page_range and is in the kernel page table).
>  5. CPU x unmaps the last page, performs a *local* TLBI, handles the
>     event and returns from the exception
>  6. CPU y takes a GHES IRQ
>  7. CPU y then maps the first buffer page at the same virtual address
>     that CPU x used to map the last buffer page
>  8. CPU y accesses the page, hits the stale TLB entry and gets junk
> 
> which I think means you need to perform local TLB invalidation on map
> as well as unmap.
> 
> Is there some reason this can't happen on x86? It sounds plausible on
> arm64 if we were to use local invalidation.

Ha, thanks for the detailed example, I see it now!

And I too don't see a reason why that can't happen. And the GHES
IRQ is a GSI, which has "global" in the name but I don't think that
means it interrupts the whole system like an NMI does. Especially
if it is registered/handled like a normal irq: acpi_gsi_to_irq() ..
request_irq()...

Adding Tony.

If anything, we probably should be doing something with irq_work at the
end of ghes_copy_tofrom_phys() so that the invalidation of any possible
speculative mappings happens before we return from the GHES IRQ.

Hmm, currently I'm not even clear whether this'll work: we would
theoretically need to send IPIs from IRQ context, at the end of the GHES
IRQ...

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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