linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/zsmalloc: include sparsemem.h for MAX_PHYSMEM

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Date:   Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:57:02 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
Cc:     Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        ngupta@...are.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/zsmalloc: include sparsemem.h for MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:26 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:33:29AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 5:21 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:21:11PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > >
> > > > To be on the safe side, we could provoke a compile-time error
> > > > when CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is set on a 32-bit
> > > > architecture, but MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS is not set.
> > >
> > > Maybe compile time warning and a runtime error in zs_init() if 32 bit
> > > machine has memory above 4G?
> >
> > If the fix is as easy as adding a single line in a header, I think a
> > compile-time
> > error makes it easier, no need to wait for someone to boot a broken
> > system before fixing it.
>
> Not sure it would be as easy as adding a single line in a header for
> MIPS with it's diversity.

I looked up the architecture, and found:

- The pre-MIPS32r1 cores only support 32-bit addressing
- octeon selects PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT but no longer
  supports 32-bit kernels
- Alchemy and netlogic (XLR, XLP) have 36-bit addressing
- CONFIG_XPA implies 40-bit addressing

We should run it by the MIPS maintainers, but I think this patch
is sufficient:

--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-32.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-32.h
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static inline void pmd_clear(pmd_t *pmdp)

 #if defined(CONFIG_XPA)

+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 40
 #define pte_pfn(x)             (((unsigned long)((x).pte_high >>
_PFN_SHIFT)) | (unsigned long)((x).pte_low << _PAGE_PRESENT_SHIFT))
 static inline pte_t
 pfn_pte(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot)
@@ -169,6 +170,7 @@ pfn_pte(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot)

 #elif defined(CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT) && defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32)

+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 35
 #define pte_pfn(x)             ((unsigned long)((x).pte_high >> 6))

 static inline pte_t pfn_pte(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot)
@@ -183,6 +185,7 @@ static inline pte_t pfn_pte(unsigned long pfn,
pgprot_t prot)

 #else

+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 32
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_VR41XX
 #define pte_pfn(x)             ((unsigned long)((x).pte >> (PAGE_SHIFT + 2)))
 #define pfn_pte(pfn, prot)     __pte(((pfn) << (PAGE_SHIFT + 2)) |
pgprot_val(prot))

     Arnd