linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: add missing PTE_SPECIAL in pte

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Date:   Wed, 7 Aug 2019 10:09:29 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Jia He <justin.he@....com>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>,
        Punit Agrawal <punitagrawal@...il.com>, Qian Cai <cai@....pw>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@...il.com>,
        Alex Van Brunt <avanbrunt@...dia.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: add missing PTE_SPECIAL in pte_mkdevmap on
 arm64

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 12:58:51PM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index 5fdcfe237338..e09760ece844 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_mkcont(pmd_t pmd)
>  
>  static inline pte_t pte_mkdevmap(pte_t pte)
>  {
> -	return set_pte_bit(pte, __pgprot(PTE_DEVMAP));
> +	return set_pte_bit(pte, __pgprot(PTE_DEVMAP | PTE_SPECIAL));
>  }
>  
>  static inline void set_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
> @@ -396,7 +396,10 @@ static inline int pmd_protnone(pmd_t pmd)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>  #define pmd_devmap(pmd)		pte_devmap(pmd_pte(pmd))
>  #endif
> -#define pmd_mkdevmap(pmd)	pte_pmd(pte_mkdevmap(pmd_pte(pmd)))
> +static inline pmd_t pmd_mkdevmap(pmd_t pmd)
> +{
> +	return pte_pmd(set_pte_bit(pmd_pte(pmd), __pgprot(PTE_DEVMAP)));
> +}
>  
>  #define __pmd_to_phys(pmd)	__pte_to_phys(pmd_pte(pmd))
>  #define __phys_to_pmd_val(phys)	__phys_to_pte_val(phys)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>

I think Catalin can take this as a fix, although the commit message should
probably be trimmed down a bit to remove the two call traces etc.

Will