Re: [Bug 10732] REGRESSION: 2.6.26-rc2-git4: X server failed startonX61s laptop

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> This comes from an assumption in 1c12c4cf9411eb130b245fa8d0fbbaf989477c7b
> mprotect: prevent alteration of the PAT bits, that PTE_MASK is what it's
> supposed to be: whereas it's been wrong forever with PAE, staying 32-bit
> where 64-bit is needed.

Can we *please* just fix PTE_MASK?

And can we agree to never EVER use that PAGE_MASK thing (which was only 
ever meant to work on *addresses*) for any pte operations (including the 
definition of PTE_MASK)? Because PAGE_MASK is very much the word-size, and 
in 32-bit PAE, the page table entry is bigger.

IOE, PTE_MASK should be a "pteval_t". And it should have absolutely 
*nothing* to do with PAGE_MASK. EVER.

IOW, maybe something like this?

And no, I haven't tested this at all. But it should make PTE_MASK have
 (a) the right type ("pteval_t", not "long" - the latter is pure and utter 
     crap)
 (b) the right value (proper mask, not a sign-extended long - again, the 
     latter is pure and utter crap)

but for all I know there might be some broken code that depends on the 
current incorrect and totally broken #defines, so this needs testing and 
thinking about.

It also causes these warnings on 32-bit PAE:

	  AS      arch/x86/kernel/head_32.o
	arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S: Assembler messages:
	arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:225: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed
	arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:609: Warning: left operand is a bignum; integer 0 assumed

and I do not see why (the end result seems to be identical).

Ingo, comments?

Oh, and those #define's should be moved from <asm/page.h> to 
<asm/pgtable.h>, I think. They have nothing to do with pages (despite the 
name of "physical_page_mask", and really are meaningful only in the 
context of some kind of page table entry.

		Linus

---
 include/asm-x86/page.h |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-x86/page.h b/include/asm-x86/page.h
index b381f4a..34b4845 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/page.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/page.h
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
-#define PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK	(PAGE_MASK & __PHYSICAL_MASK)
-#define PTE_MASK		(_AT(long, PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK))
+#define PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK	(__PHYSICAL_MASK & ~__PHYSICAL_LOW_BITS)
+#define PTE_MASK		(_AT(pteval_t, PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK))
 
 #define PMD_PAGE_SIZE		(_AC(1, UL) << PMD_SHIFT)
 #define PMD_PAGE_MASK		(~(PMD_PAGE_SIZE-1))
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 /* to align the pointer to the (next) page boundary */
 #define PAGE_ALIGN(addr)	(((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)
 
+#define __PHYSICAL_LOW_BITS	_AT(phys_addr_t, (PAGE_SIZE-1))
 #define __PHYSICAL_MASK		_AT(phys_addr_t, (_AC(1,ULL) << __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT) - 1)
 #define __VIRTUAL_MASK		((_AC(1,UL) << __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT) - 1)
 
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