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Toshi Kani authored
A Xorg failure on qemu32 was reported as a regression [1] caused by commit 9cd25aac ("x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is disabled"). This patch fixes the Xorg crash. Negative effects of this regression were the following two failures [2] in Xorg on QEMU with QEMU CPU model "qemu32" (-cpu qemu32), which were triggered by the fact that its virtual CPU does not support MTRRs. #1. copy_process() failed in the check in reserve_pfn_range() copy_process copy_mm dup_mm dup_mmap copy_page_range track_pfn_copy reserve_pfn_range A WC map request was tracked as WC in memtype, which set a PTE as UC (pgprot) per __cachemode2pte_tbl[]. This led to this error in reserve_pfn_range() called from track_pfn_copy(), which obtained a pgprot from a PTE. It converts pgprot to page_cache_mode, which does not necessarily result in the original page_cache_mode since __cachemode2pte_tbl[] redirects multiple types to UC. #2. error path in copy_process() then hit WARN_ON_ONCE in untrack_pfn(). x86/PAT: Xorg:509 map pfn expected mapping type uncached- minus for [mem 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff], got write-combining Call Trace: dump_stack warn_slowpath_common ? untrack_pfn ? untrack_pfn warn_slowpath_null untrack_pfn ? __kunmap_atomic unmap_single_vma ? pagevec_move_tail_fn unmap_vmas exit_mmap mmput copy_process.part.47 _do_fork SyS_clone do_syscall_32_irqs_on entry_INT80_32 These negative effects are caused by two separate bugs, but they can be addressed in separate patches. Fixing the pat_init() issue described below addresses the root cause, and avoids Xorg to hit these cases. When the CPU does not support MTRRs, MTRR does not call pat_init(), which leaves PAT enabled without initializing PAT. This pat_init() issue is a long-standing issue, but manifested as issue #1 (and then hit issue #2) with the above-mentioned commit because the memtype now tracks cache attribute with 'page_cache_mode'. This pat_init() issue existed before the commit, but we used pgprot in memtype. Hence, we did not have issue #1 before. But WC request resulted in WT in effect because WC pgrot is actually WT when PAT is not initialized. This is not how it was designed to work. When PAT is set to disable properly, WC is converted to UC. The use of WT can result in a system crash if the target range does not support WT. Fortunately, nobody ran into such issue before. To fix this pat_init() issue, PAT code has been enhanced to provide pat_disable() interface. Call this interface when MTRRs are disabled. By setting PAT to disable properly, PAT bypasses the memtype check, and avoids issue #1. [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/3/828 [2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/4/775Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: elliott@hpe.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458769323-24491-5-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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