Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86/mm/pat: CPA fixes

[Nikunj A Dadhania]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 04:36:08PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> +static void poke_vmalloc_pages_safe(struct page **pages, void *addr,
> +				    bool cross_page_boundary)
> +{
> +	guard(mmap_read_lock)(&init_mm);
> +	poke_vmalloc_pages(pages, addr, cross_page_boundary);
> +}

Tested just the proposed patch from this email (without the rest of the
CPA fixes series) on the 512-guest concurrent boot harness (details in
[1]) and still see the memcmp BUG, I havent hit the first BUG though:

  kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:2727!
  Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 485 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 7.2.0-rc5-pokesafe+ #42 PREEMPT(full)
  RIP: 0010:__text_poke.cold+0xdb/0x2af

The instrumentation captured the following before the memcmp BUG:

  SMP alternatives: __text_poke: memcmp failed at addr=ffffffffc06ce1bb len=4
  SMP alternatives: __text_poke: expected (src): 2e 2e 31 c0
  SMP alternatives: __text_poke: found    (dst): f9 b8 9b d3
  SMP alternatives: __text_poke: pfn at poke time (vmalloc_to_page): 8ece
  SMP alternatives: __text_poke: pfn at readback time (vmalloc_to_page): c6ce
  SMP alternatives: __text_poke: page table dump for addr:
    PGD 2f042067  P4D 2f043067  PUD 2f045067  PMD c6001a1

pfn acquired at the start of __text_poke() (0x8ece) differs from pfn
at readback time (0xc6ce) in the instrumentaion.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260812063316.21371-1-nikunj@xxxxxxx/

Regards,
Nikunj