Re: [PATCH v8 09/16] ARM: LPAE: MMU setup for the 3-level pagetable format

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 05:24:58PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Macro for setting up the TTBRx and TTBCR registers.
> > +	 * - \ttbr1 updated.
> > +	 */
> > +	.macro	v7_ttb_setup, zero, ttbr0, ttbr1, tmp
> > +	mrc	p15, 0, \tmp, c2, c0, 2		@ TTB control register
> > +	orr	\tmp, \tmp, #TTB_EAE
> > +	ALT_SMP(orr	\tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_SMP)
> > +	ALT_SMP(orr	\tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_SMP << 16)
> > +	ALT_UP(orr	\tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_UP)
> > +	ALT_UP(orr	\tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_UP << 16)
> 
> The ALT_SMP() and ALT_UP() must always be paired and in the right order.  
> The above certainly won't produce what you expect on UP.

Good catch, I don't think that was in previous revisions of this patch set.
ALT_(SMP|UP) absolutely must be paired together.  So this must be written:

+	ALT_SMP(orr	\tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_SMP)
+	ALT_UP(orr	\tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_UP)
+	ALT_SMP(orr	\tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_SMP << 16)
+	ALT_UP(orr	\tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_UP << 16)

Otherwise we will end up generating two SMP instruction replacements
for the second instruction in the original.

> 
> > +#if PHYS_OFFSET <= PAGE_OFFSET
> 
> Please don't use PHYS_OFFSET like a preprocessor macro anymore.  This is 
> becoming a global variable these days, and already is for the majority 
> of platforms.
> 
> > +	 * TTBR0/TTBR1 split (PAGE_OFFSET):
> > +	 *   0x40000000: T0SZ = 2, T1SZ = 0 (not used)
> > +	 *   0x80000000: T0SZ = 0, T1SZ = 1
> > +	 *   0xc0000000: T0SZ = 0, T1SZ = 2
> > +	 *
> > +	 * Only use this feature if PHYS_OFFSET <= PAGE_OFFSET, otherwise
> > +	 * booting secondary CPUs would end up using TTBR1 for the identity
> > +	 * mapping set up in TTBR0.
> > +	 */
> > +	orr	\tmp, \tmp, #(((PAGE_OFFSET >> 30) - 1) << 16) @ TTBCR.T1SZ
> > +#if defined CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G
> > +	/* PAGE_OFFSET == 0x80000000, T1SZ == 1 */
> > +	add	\ttbr1, \ttbr1, #1 << 4		@ skip two L1 entries
> > +#elif defined CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G
> > +	/* PAGE_OFFSET == 0xc0000000, T1SZ == 2 */
> > +	add	\ttbr1, \ttbr1, #4096 * (1 + 3)	@ only L2 used, skip pgd+3*pmd
> > +#endif
> > +#endif	/* PHYS_OFFSET <= PAGE_OFFSET */
> 
> What about CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G ?

There's also the question about whether the kernel is ready to deal with
split page tables.  I don't believe it is, because there are situations
where we walk the current page table for kernel addresses.

So, I think trying to reduce the L1 page table size and set the hardware
in this way may cause instability at the present time.
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