Message-ID: <35c9bee6934583fc8b419268f15cbebb0ad75975.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:08:13 -0500
From:   Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>
Cc:     Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: fix runtime fallback to 48-bt VA when 52-bit
 VA is enabled

On Wed, 2021-03-10 at 14:29 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> (+ James)
> 
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 13:41, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 12:18, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 07:32:16PM -0500, Mark Salter wrote:
> > > > I ran into an early boot soft lockup on a Qualcomm Amberwing using a v5.11
> > > > kernel configured for 52-bit VA. This turned into a panic with a v5.12-rc2
> > > > kernel.
> > > > 
> > > > The problem is that when we fall back to 48-bit VA, idmap_t0sz is not
> > > > updated. Later, the kvm hypervisor uses idmap_t0sz to set its tcr_el2 and
> > > > hangs (v5.11). After commit 1401bef703a4 ("arm64: mm: Always update TCR_EL1
> > > > from __cpu_set_tcr_t0sz()"), the kernel panics when trying to use the idmap
> > > > to call idmap_cpu_replace_ttbr1().
> > > > 
> > > > Oddly, other systems (thunderX2 and Ampere eMag) which don't support 52-bit
> > > > VA seem to handle the setting of an unsupported t0sz without any apparent
> > > > problems. Indeed, if one reads back the tcr written with t0sz==12, the
> > > > value read has t0sz==16. Not so with Amberwing.
> > > 
> > > Nice, you have one of those elusive platforms!
> > > 
> > > > Fixes: 90ec95cda91a ("arm64: mm: Introduce VA_BITS_MIN")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 10 +++++++++-
> > > >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> > > > index 66b0e0b66e31..2bcbbb26292e 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> > > > @@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__create_page_tables)
> > > >        */
> > > >       adrp    x0, idmap_pg_dir
> > > >       adrp    x3, __idmap_text_start          // __pa(__idmap_text_start)
> > > > +     mov     x4, TCR_T0SZ(VA_BITS)
> > > > 
> > > >  #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_52
> > > >       mrs_s   x6, SYS_ID_AA64MMFR2_EL1
> > > > @@ -299,6 +300,13 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__create_page_tables)
> > > >       cbnz    x6, 1f
> > > >  #endif
> > > >       mov     x5, #VA_BITS_MIN
> > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_52
> > > > +     mov     x4, TCR_T0SZ(VA_BITS_MIN)
> > > > +     adr_l   x6, idmap_t0sz
> > > > +     str     x4, [x6]
> > > > +     dmb     sy
> > > > +     dc      ivac, x6                // Invalidate potentially stale cache line
> > > > +#endif
> > > >  1:
> > > >       adr_l   x6, vabits_actual
> > > >       str     x5, [x6]
> > > > @@ -319,7 +327,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__create_page_tables)
> > > >        */
> > > >       adrp    x5, __idmap_text_end
> > > >       clz     x5, x5
> > > > -     cmp     x5, TCR_T0SZ(VA_BITS)   // default T0SZ small enough?
> > > > +     cmp     x5, x4                  // default T0SZ small enough?
> > > >       b.ge    1f                      // .. then skip VA range extension
> > > 
> > > Could we instead have the default value be 48-bit, and then avoid having
> > > to update the variable in both cases? e.g. something along the lines of
> > > the entirely untested diff below?
> > > 
> > 
> > There is one other occurrence that needs to be updated. I will have a
> > stab at fixing this along these lines, and there are a couple of other
> > things that need cleaning up.
> > 
> 
> Actually, it seems like this breakage may have been introduced by
> 
> commit 1401bef703a48cf79c674215f702a1435362beae
> Author: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> Date:   Mon Jan 25 14:19:12 2021 -0500
> 
>     arm64: mm: Always update TCR_EL1 from __cpu_set_tcr_t0sz()
> 
> as before that patch, we would never actually load idmap_t0sz into TCR
> on 52-bit VA kernels, AFAICT.

Right, but even without that patch, the kvm hypervisor code would
use idmap_t0sz for its mapping in cpu_init_hyp_mode(). That leads
to a soft lockup rather than a panic with the above patch.

I can boot on amberwing with the below patch.


> 
> It seems to me that the sanest approach is to default to a 48-bit
> idmap on 52-bit VA capable kernels (as Will suggests below). This
> means that the notion of 'extended ID map' now also includes cases
> where the ID map is smaller than the default VA_BITS range. However,
> the number of levels is going to be the same, so it does not affect
> the ID map page table population code in head.S.
> 
> Also, __cpu_uses_extended_idmap() no longer has any users anyway, so
> we can remove it rather than bikeshed over a better name for it.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > --->8
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> > > index 66b0e0b66e31..fb795123896f 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> > > @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__create_page_tables)
> > >          */
> > >         adrp    x5, __idmap_text_end
> > >         clz     x5, x5
> > > -       cmp     x5, TCR_T0SZ(VA_BITS)   // default T0SZ small enough?
> > > +       cmp     x5, TCR_T0SZ(VA_BITS_MIN)       // default T0SZ small enough?
> > >         b.ge    1f                      // .. then skip VA range extension
> > > 
> > >         adr_l   x6, idmap_t0sz
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > > index 3802cfbdd20d..4c5603c41870 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > > @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
> > >  #define NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS      BIT(0)
> > >  #define NO_CONT_MAPPINGS       BIT(1)
> > > 
> > > -u64 idmap_t0sz = TCR_T0SZ(VA_BITS);
> > > +u64 idmap_t0sz = TCR_T0SZ(VA_BITS_MIN);
> > >  u64 idmap_ptrs_per_pgd = PTRS_PER_PGD;
> > > 
> > >  u64 __section(".mmuoff.data.write") vabits_actual;
> > > 
> > > 
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