linux-kernel - SME/32-bit regression

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Date:   Tue, 5 Sep 2017 23:45:07 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     thomas.lendacky@....com
Cc:     X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: SME/32-bit regression

It appears there is a regression for 32-bit kernels due to SME changes.

I bisected my particular problem (Xen PV guest) to 
21729f81ce8ae76a6995681d40e16f7ce8075db4 but I also saw pmd_clear_bad() 
errors on baremetal. This seems to be caused by sme_me_mask being an 
unsigned long as opposed to phys_addr_t (the actual problem is that 
__PHYSICAL_MASK is truncated). When I declare it as u64 and drop 
unsigned long cast in __sme_set()/__sme_clr() the problem goes way. 
(This presumably won't work for non-PAE which I haven't tried).

-boris