Re: [PATCH] ARM: mm: support big-endian page tables
From: Jianguo Wu
Date: Wed Feb 12 2014 - 01:56:22 EST
On 2014/2/11 18:40, Ben Dooks wrote:
> On 11/02/14 09:20, Jianguo Wu wrote:
>> When enable LPAE and big-endian in a hisilicon board, while specify
>> mem=384M mem=512M@7680M, will get bad page state:
>>
>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 180K (c0466000 - c0493000)
>> BUG: Bad page state in process init pfn:fa442
>> page:c7749840 count:0 mapcount:-1 mapping: (null) index:0x0
>> page flags: 0x40000400(reserved)
>> Modules linked in:
>> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 3.10.27+ #66
>> [<c000f5f0>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x11c) from [<c000cbc4>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
>> [<c000cbc4>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [<c009e448>] (bad_page+0xd4/0x104)
>> [<c009e448>] (bad_page+0xd4/0x104) from [<c009e520>] (free_pages_prepare+0xa8/0x14c)
>> [<c009e520>] (free_pages_prepare+0xa8/0x14c) from [<c009f8ec>] (free_hot_cold_page+0x18/0xf0)
>> [<c009f8ec>] (free_hot_cold_page+0x18/0xf0) from [<c00b5444>] (handle_pte_fault+0xcf4/0xdc8)
>> [<c00b5444>] (handle_pte_fault+0xcf4/0xdc8) from [<c00b6458>] (handle_mm_fault+0xf4/0x120)
>> [<c00b6458>] (handle_mm_fault+0xf4/0x120) from [<c0013754>] (do_page_fault+0xfc/0x354)
>> [<c0013754>] (do_page_fault+0xfc/0x354) from [<c0008400>] (do_DataAbort+0x2c/0x90)
>> [<c0008400>] (do_DataAbort+0x2c/0x90) from [<c0008fb4>] (__dabt_usr+0x34/0x40)
>>
>> The bad pfn:fa442 is not system memory(mem=384M mem=512M@7680M), after debugging,
>> I find in page fault handler, will get wrong pfn from pte just after set pte,
>> as follow:
>> do_anonymous_page()
>> {
>> ...
>> set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, entry);
>>
>> //debug code
>> pfn = pte_pfn(entry);
>> pr_info("pfn:0x%lx, pte:0x%llx\n", pfn, pte_val(entry));
>>
>> //read out the pte just set
>> new_pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
>> new_pfn = pte_pfn(*new_pte);
>> pr_info("new pfn:0x%lx, new pte:0x%llx\n", pfn, pte_val(entry));
>> ...
>> }
>
> Thanks, must have missed tickling this one.
>
>>
>> pfn: 0x1fa4f5, pte:0xc00001fa4f575f
>> new_pfn:0xfa4f5, new_pte:0xc00000fa4f5f5f //new pfn/pte is wrong.
>>
>> The bug is happened in cpu_v7_set_pte_ext(ptep, pte):
>> when pte is 64-bit, for little-endian, will store low 32-bit in r2,
>> high 32-bit in r3; for big-endian, will store low 32-bit in r3,
>> high 32-bit in r2, this will cause wrong pfn stored in pte,
>> so we should exchange r2 and r3 for big-endian.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S | 10 ++++++++++
>> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S
>> index 6ba4bd9..71b3892 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S
>> @@ -65,6 +65,15 @@ ENDPROC(cpu_v7_switch_mm)
>> */
>> ENTRY(cpu_v7_set_pte_ext)
>> #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
>> + tst r3, #L_PTE_VALID
>> + beq 1f
>> + tst r2, #1 << (57 - 32) @ L_PTE_NONE
>> + bicne r3, #L_PTE_VALID
>> + bne 1f
>> + tst r2, #1 << (55 - 32) @ L_PTE_DIRTY
>> + orreq r3, #L_PTE_RDONLY
>> +#else
>> tst r2, #L_PTE_VALID
>> beq 1f
>> tst r3, #1 << (57 - 32) @ L_PTE_NONE
>> @@ -72,6 +81,7 @@ ENTRY(cpu_v7_set_pte_ext)
>> bne 1f
>> tst r3, #1 << (55 - 32) @ L_PTE_DIRTY
>> orreq r2, #L_PTE_RDONLY
>> +#endif
>> 1: strd r2, r3, [r0]
>> ALT_SMP(W(nop))
>> ALT_UP (mcr p15, 0, r0, c7, c10, 1) @ flush_pte
>> -- 1.7.1
>
> If possible can we avoid large #ifdef blocks here?
>
> Two ideas are
>
> ARM_LE(tst r2, #L_PTE_VALID)
> ARM_BE(tst r3, #L_PTE_VALID)
>
> or change r2, r3 pair to say rlow, rhi and
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
> #define rlow r3
> #define rhi r2
> #else
> #define rlow r2
> #define rhi r3
> #endif
>
Hi Ben,
Thanks for your suggestion, how about this?
Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S
index 01a719e..22e3ad6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S
@@ -64,6 +64,14 @@ ENTRY(cpu_v7_switch_mm)
mov pc, lr
ENDPROC(cpu_v7_switch_mm)
+#ifdef __ARMEB__
+#define rl r3
+#define rh r2
+#else
+#define rl r2
+#define rh r3
+#endif
+
/*
* cpu_v7_set_pte_ext(ptep, pte)
*
@@ -73,13 +81,13 @@ ENDPROC(cpu_v7_switch_mm)
*/
ENTRY(cpu_v7_set_pte_ext)
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
- tst r2, #L_PTE_VALID
+ tst rl, #L_PTE_VALID
beq 1f
- tst r3, #1 << (57 - 32) @ L_PTE_NONE
- bicne r2, #L_PTE_VALID
+ tst rh, #1 << (57 - 32) @ L_PTE_NONE
+ bicne rl, #L_PTE_VALID
bne 1f
- tst r3, #1 << (55 - 32) @ L_PTE_DIRTY
- orreq r2, #L_PTE_RDONLY
+ tst rh, #1 << (55 - 32) @ L_PTE_DIRTY
+ orreq rl, #L_PTE_RDONLY
1: strd r2, r3, [r0]
ALT_SMP(W(nop))
ALT_UP (mcr p15, 0, r0, c7, c10, 1) @ flush_pte
--
1.7.1
Thanks,
Jianguo Wu
>
>
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