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Date:   Fri, 27 May 2022 09:40:36 +0800
From:   Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@...wei.com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
CC:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        "Alexander Viro" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@...wei.com>,
        Guohanjun <guohanjun@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v4 3/7] arm64: add support for machine check error
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在 2022/5/26 17:50, Mark Rutland 写道:
> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 11:36:41AM +0800, Tong Tiangen wrote:
>>
>>
>> 在 2022/5/25 16:30, Mark Rutland 写道:
>>> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 02:29:54PM +0800, Tong Tiangen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 在 2022/5/13 23:26, Mark Rutland 写道:
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 03:04:14AM +0000, Tong Tiangen wrote:
>>>>>> During the processing of arm64 kernel hardware memory errors(do_sea()), if
>>>>>> the errors is consumed in the kernel, the current processing is panic.
>>>>>> However, it is not optimal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Take uaccess for example, if the uaccess operation fails due to memory
>>>>>> error, only the user process will be affected, kill the user process
>>>>>> and isolate the user page with hardware memory errors is a better choice.
>>>>>
>>>>> Conceptually, I'm fine with the idea of constraining what we do for a
>>>>> true uaccess, but I don't like the implementation of this at all, and I
>>>>> think we first need to clean up the arm64 extable usage to clearly
>>>>> distinguish a uaccess from another access.
>>>>
>>>> OK,using EX_TYPE_UACCESS and this extable type could be recover, this is
>>>> more reasonable.
>>>
>>> Great.
>>>
>>>> For EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO, today we use it for kernel accesses in a
>>>> couple of cases, such as
>>>> get_user/futex/__user_cache_maint()/__user_swpX_asm(),
>>>
>>> Those are all user accesses.
>>>
>>> However, __get_kernel_nofault() and __put_kernel_nofault() use
>>> EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO by way of __{get,put}_mem_asm(), so we'd need to
>>> refactor that code to split the user/kernel cases higher up the callchain.
>>>
>>>> your suggestion is:
>>>> get_user continues to use EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO and the other cases use
>>>> new type EX_TYPE_FIXUP_ERR_ZERO?
>>>
>>> Yes, that's the rough shape. We could make the latter EX_TYPE_KACCESS_ERR_ZERO
>>> to be clearly analogous to EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO, and with that I susepct we
>>> could remove EX_TYPE_FIXUP.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark.
>> According to your suggestion, i think the definition is like this:
>>
>> #define EX_TYPE_NONE                    0
>> #define EX_TYPE_FIXUP                   1    --> delete
>> #define EX_TYPE_BPF                     2
>> #define EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO        3
>> #define EX_TYPE_LOAD_UNALIGNED_ZEROPAD  4
>> #define EX_TYPE_UACCESS		        xx   --> add
>> #define EX_TYPE_KACCESS_ERR_ZERO        xx   --> add
>> [The value defined by the macro here is temporary]
> 
> Almost; you don't need to add EX_TYPE_UACCESS here, as you can use
> EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO for that.
> 
> We already have:
> 
> | #define _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR(insn, fixup, err)		\
> |         _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO(insn, fixup, err, wzr)
> 
> ... and we can add:
> 
> | #define _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS(insn, fixup)			\
> |         _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO(insn, fixup, wzr, wzr)
> 
> 
> ... and maybe we should use 'xzr' rather than 'wzr' for clarity.
> 
>> There are two points to modify:
>>
>> 1、_get_kernel_nofault() and __put_kernel_nofault()  using
>> EX_TYPE_KACCESS_ERR_ZERO, Other positions using EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO
>> keep unchanged.
> 
> That sounds right to me. This will require refactoring __raw_{get,put}_mem()
> and __{get,put}_mem_asm().
> 
>> 2、delete EX_TYPE_FIXUP.
>>
>> There is no doubt about others. As for EX_TYPE_FIXUP, I think it needs to be
>> retained, _cond_extable(EX_TYPE_FIXUP) is still in use in assembler.h.
> 
> We use _cond_extable for cache maintenance uaccesses, so those should be moved
> over to to EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO. We can rename _cond_extable to
> _cond_uaccess_extable for clarity.
> 
> That will require restructuring asm-extable.h a bit. If that turns out to be
> painful I'm happy to take a look.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark.

OK, I'll do it these days, thanks a lot.

> .