Re: linux-next: build failure on powerpc 8xx with 16k pages

[Christophe Leroy]

On 06/04/2020 11:17 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi, [+Peter]
>
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 10:48:03AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > Using mpc885_ads_defconfig with CONFIG_PPC_16K_PAGES instead of
> > CONFIG_PPC_4K_PAGES, getting the following build failure:
> >
> >    CC      mm/gup.o
> > In file included from ./include/linux/kernel.h:11:0,
> >                   from mm/gup.c:2:
> > In function 'gup_hugepte.constprop',
> >      inlined from 'gup_huge_pd.isra.78' at mm/gup.c:2465:8:
> > ./include/linux/compiler.h:392:38: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_257'
> > declared with attribute error: Unsupported access size for
> > {READ,WRITE}_ONCE().
> >    _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
> >                                        ^
> > ./include/linux/compiler.h:373:4: note: in definition of macro
> > '__compiletime_assert'
> >      prefix ## suffix();    \
> >      ^
> > ./include/linux/compiler.h:392:2: note: in expansion of macro
> > '_compiletime_assert'
> >    _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
> >    ^
> > ./include/linux/compiler.h:405:2: note: in expansion of macro
> > 'compiletime_assert'
> >    compiletime_assert(__native_word(t) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(long long), \
> >    ^
> > ./include/linux/compiler.h:291:2: note: in expansion of macro
> > 'compiletime_assert_rwonce_type'
> >    compiletime_assert_rwonce_type(x);    \
> >    ^
> > mm/gup.c:2428:8: note: in expansion of macro 'READ_ONCE'
> >    pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
> >          ^
> > In function 'gup_get_pte',
> >      inlined from 'gup_pte_range' at mm/gup.c:2228:9,
> >      inlined from 'gup_pmd_range' at mm/gup.c:2613:15,
> >      inlined from 'gup_pud_range' at mm/gup.c:2641:15,
> >      inlined from 'gup_p4d_range' at mm/gup.c:2666:15,
> >      inlined from 'gup_pgd_range' at mm/gup.c:2694:15,
> >      inlined from 'internal_get_user_pages_fast' at mm/gup.c:2785:3:
>
> At first glance, this looks like a real bug in the 16k page code -- you're
> loading the pte non-atomically on the fast GUP path and so you're prone to
> tearing, which probably isn't what you want. For a short-term hack, I'd
> suggest having CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP depend on !CONFIG_PPC_16K_PAGES, but if
> you want to support this them you'll need to rework your pte_t so that it
> can be loaded atomically.

What do you mean by *rework* pte_t ?
pte are 32 bits words in size and are spread every 4 words in memory. 
Therefore pte_t has to be 128 bits because unlike huge_pte handling 
which always use huge_pte_offset() in loops, many many places in the 
kernel do pte++, so we need the pte type to be the size of the interval 
from one pte to the next one.

Christophe