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  1. 12 May, 2011 2 commits
    • Stefano Stabellini's avatar
      x86,xen: introduce x86_init.mapping.pagetable_reserve · 279b706b
      Stefano Stabellini authored 
      Introduce a new x86_init hook called pagetable_reserve that at the end
of init_memory_mapping is used to reserve a range of memory addresses for
the kernel pagetable pages we used and free the other ones.

On native it just calls memblock_x86_reserve_range while on xen it also
takes care of setting the spare memory previously allocated
for kernel pagetable pages from RO to RW, so that it can be used for
other purposes.

A detailed explanation of the reason why this hook is needed follows.

As a consequence of the commit:

commit 4b239f45
Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri Dec 17 16:58:28 2010 -0800

    x86-64, mm: Put early page table high

at some point init_memory_mapping is going to reach the pagetable pages
area and map those pages too (mapping them as normal memory that falls
in the range of addresses passed to init_memory_mapping as argument).
Some of those pages are already pagetable pages (they are in the range
pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_end) therefore they are going to be mapped RO and
everything is fine.
Some of these pages are not pagetable pages yet (they fall in the range
pgt_buf_end-pgt_buf_top; for example the page at pgt_buf_end) so they
are going to be mapped RW.  When these pages become pagetable pages and
are hooked into the pagetable, xen will find that the guest has already
a RW mapping of them somewhere and fail the operation.
The reason Xen requires pagetables to be RO is that the hypervisor needs
to verify that the pagetables are valid before using them. The validation
operations are called "pinning" (more details in arch/x86/xen/mmu.c).

In order to fix the issue we mark all the pages in the entire range
pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_top as RO, however when the pagetable allocation
is completed only the range pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_end is reserved by
init_memory_mapping. Hence the kernel is going to crash as soon as one
of the pages in the range pgt_buf_end-pgt_buf_top is reused (b/c those
ranges are RO).

For this reason we need a hook to reserve the kernel pagetable pages we
used and free the other ones so that they can be reused for other
purposes.
On native it just means calling memblock_x86_reserve_range, on Xen it
also means marking RW the pagetable pages that we allocated before but
that haven't been used before.

Another way to fix this is without using the hook is by adding a 'if
(xen_pv_domain)' in the 'init_memory_mapping' code and calling the Xen
counterpart, but that is just nasty.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: default avatarYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      279b706b
    • Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk's avatar
      Revert "xen/mmu: Add workaround "x86-64, mm: Put early page table high"" · 92bdaef7
      Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk authored 
      This reverts commit a3864783.

It does not work with certain AMD machines.

last_pfn = 0x100000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
initial memory mapped : 0 - 02c3a000
Base memory trampoline at [ffff88000009b000] 9b000 size 20480
init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000100000000
 0000000000 - 0100000000 page 4k
kernel direct mapping tables up to 100000000 @ ff7fb000-100000000
init_memory_mapping: 0000000100000000-00000001e0800000
 0100000000 - 01e0800000 page 4k
kernel direct mapping tables up to 1e0800000 @ 1df0f3000-1e0000000
xen: setting RW the range fffdc000 - 100000000
RAMDISK: 0203b000 - 02c3a000
No NUMA configuration found
Faking a node at 0000000000000000-00000001e0800000
NUMA: Using 63 for the hash shift.
Initmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-00000001e0800000
  NODE_DATA [00000001dfffb000 - 00000001dfffffff]
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
IP: [<ffffffff81cf6a75>] setup_node_bootmem+0x18a/0x1ea
PGD 0
Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file:
CPU 0
Modules linked in:

Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.39-0-virtual #6~smb1
RIP: e030:[<ffffffff81cf6a75>]  [<ffffffff81cf6a75>] setup_node_bootmem+0x18a/0x1ea
RSP: e02b:ffffffff81c01e38  EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000001e0800000 RCX: 0000000000001040
RDX: 0000000000004100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8801dfffb000
RBP: ffffffff81c01e58 R08: 0000000000000020 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000bfe400
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff81cca000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000001c03000 CR4: 0000000000000660
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81c00000, task ffffffff81c0b020)
Stack:
 0000000000000040 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff
 ffffffff81c01e88 ffffffff81cf6c25 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 ffffffff81cf687f 0000000000000000 ffffffff81c01ea8 ffffffff81cf6e45
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81cf6c25>] numa_register_memblks.constprop.3+0x150/0x181
 [<ffffffff81cf687f>] ? numa_add_memblk+0x7c/0x7c
 [<ffffffff81cf6e45>] numa_init.part.2+0x1c/0x7c
 [<ffffffff81cf687f>] ? numa_add_memblk+0x7c/0x7c
 [<ffffffff81cf6f67>] numa_init+0x6c/0x70
 [<ffffffff81cf7057>] initmem_init+0x39/0x3b
 [<ffffffff81ce5865>] setup_arch+0x64e/0x769
 [<ffffffff815e43c1>] ? printk+0x51/0x53
 [<ffffffff81cdf92b>] start_kernel+0xd4/0x3f3
 [<ffffffff81cdf388>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x132/0x136
 [<ffffffff81ce2ed4>] xen_start_kernel+0x588/0x58f
Code: 41 00 00 48 8b 3c c5 a0 24 cc 81 31 c0 40 f6 c7 01 74 05 aa 66 ba ff 40 40 f6 c7 02 74 05 66 ab 83 ea 02 89 d1 c1 e9 02 f6 c2 02 <f3> ab 74 02 66 ab 80 e2 01 74 01 aa 49 63 c4 48 c1 eb 0c 44 89
RIP  [<ffffffff81cf6a75>] setup_node_bootmem+0x18a/0x1ea
 RSP <ffffffff81c01e38>
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G      D     2.6.39-0-virtual #6~smb1
Reported-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      92bdaef7
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