Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] ACPICA: Preserve memory opregion mappings

[Al Stone]

On 29 Jun 2020 18:33, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The ACPICA's strategy with respect to the handling of memory mappings
> associated with memory operation regions is to avoid mapping the
> entire region at once which may be problematic at least in principle
> (for example, it may lead to conflicts with overlapping mappings
> having different attributes created by drivers).  It may also be
> wasteful, because memory opregions on some systems take up vast
> chunks of address space while the fields in those regions actually
> accessed by AML are sparsely distributed.
> 
> For this reason, a one-page "window" is mapped for a given opregion
> on the first memory access through it and if that "window" does not
> cover an address range accessed through that opregion subsequently,
> it is unmapped and a new "window" is mapped to replace it.  Next,
> if the new "window" is not sufficient to acess memory through the
> opregion in question in the future, it will be replaced with yet
> another "window" and so on.  That may lead to a suboptimal sequence
> of memory mapping and unmapping operations, for example if two fields
> in one opregion separated from each other by a sufficiently wide
> chunk of unused address space are accessed in an alternating pattern.
> 
> The situation may still be suboptimal if the deferred unmapping
> introduced previously is supported by the OS layer.  For instance,
> the alternating memory access pattern mentioned above may produce
> a relatively long list of mappings to release with substantial
> duplication among the entries in it, which could be avoided if
> acpi_ex_system_memory_space_handler() did not release the mapping
> used by it previously as soon as the current access was not covered
> by it.
> 
> In order to improve that, modify acpi_ex_system_memory_space_handler()
> to preserve all of the memory mappings created by it until the memory
> regions associated with them go away.
> 
> Accordingly, update acpi_ev_system_memory_region_setup() to unmap all
> memory associated with memory opregions that go away.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/acpica/evrgnini.c | 14 ++++----
>  drivers/acpi/acpica/exregion.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  include/acpi/actypes.h         | 12 +++++--
>  3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/evrgnini.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/evrgnini.c
> index aefc0145e583..89be3ccdad53 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/evrgnini.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/evrgnini.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ acpi_ev_system_memory_region_setup(acpi_handle handle,
>  	union acpi_operand_object *region_desc =
>  	    (union acpi_operand_object *)handle;
>  	struct acpi_mem_space_context *local_region_context;
> +	struct acpi_mem_mapping *mm;
>  
>  	ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE(ev_system_memory_region_setup);
>  
> @@ -46,13 +47,14 @@ acpi_ev_system_memory_region_setup(acpi_handle handle,
>  			local_region_context =
>  			    (struct acpi_mem_space_context *)*region_context;
>  
> -			/* Delete a cached mapping if present */
> +			/* Delete memory mappings if present */
>  
> -			if (local_region_context->mapped_length) {
> -				acpi_os_unmap_memory(local_region_context->
> -						     mapped_logical_address,
> -						     local_region_context->
> -						     mapped_length);
> +			while (local_region_context->first_mm) {
> +				mm = local_region_context->first_mm;
> +				local_region_context->first_mm = mm->next_mm;
> +				acpi_os_unmap_memory(mm->logical_address,
> +						     mm->length);
> +				ACPI_FREE(mm);
>  			}
>  			ACPI_FREE(local_region_context);
>  			*region_context = NULL;
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exregion.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exregion.c
> index d15a66de26c0..fd68f2134804 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/exregion.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/exregion.c
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ acpi_ex_system_memory_space_handler(u32 function,
>  	acpi_status status = AE_OK;
>  	void *logical_addr_ptr = NULL;
>  	struct acpi_mem_space_context *mem_info = region_context;
> +	struct acpi_mem_mapping *mm = mem_info->cur_mm;
>  	u32 length;
>  	acpi_size map_length;

I think this needs to be:

        acpi_size map_length = mem_info->length;

since it now gets used in the ACPI_ERROR() call below.  I'm getting
a "maybe used unitialized" error on compilation.

>  	acpi_size page_boundary_map_length;
> @@ -96,20 +97,38 @@ acpi_ex_system_memory_space_handler(u32 function,
>  	 * Is 1) Address below the current mapping? OR
>  	 *    2) Address beyond the current mapping?
>  	 */
> -	if ((address < mem_info->mapped_physical_address) ||
> -	    (((u64) address + length) > ((u64)
> -					 mem_info->mapped_physical_address +
> -					 mem_info->mapped_length))) {
> +	if (!mm || (address < mm->physical_address) ||
> +	    ((u64) address + length > (u64) mm->physical_address + mm->length)) {
>  		/*
> -		 * The request cannot be resolved by the current memory mapping;
> -		 * Delete the existing mapping and create a new one.
> +		 * The request cannot be resolved by the current memory mapping.
> +		 *
> +		 * Look for an existing saved mapping covering the address range
> +		 * at hand.  If found, save it as the current one and carry out
> +		 * the access.
>  		 */
> -		if (mem_info->mapped_length) {
> +		for (mm = mem_info->first_mm; mm; mm = mm->next_mm) {
> +			if (mm == mem_info->cur_mm)
> +				continue;
> +
> +			if (address < mm->physical_address)
> +				continue;
> +
> +			if ((u64) address + length >
> +					(u64) mm->physical_address + mm->length)
> +				continue;
>  
> -			/* Valid mapping, delete it */
> +			mem_info->cur_mm = mm;
> +			goto access;
> +		}
>  
> -			acpi_os_unmap_memory(mem_info->mapped_logical_address,
> -					     mem_info->mapped_length);
> +		/* Create a new mappings list entry */
> +		mm = ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED(sizeof(*mm));
> +		if (!mm) {
> +			ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO,
> +				    "Unable to save memory mapping at 0x%8.8X%8.8X, size %u",
> +				    ACPI_FORMAT_UINT64(address),
> +				    (u32)map_length));
> +			return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_NO_MEMORY);
>  		}
>  
>  		/*
> @@ -143,29 +162,39 @@ acpi_ex_system_memory_space_handler(u32 function,
>  
>  		/* Create a new mapping starting at the address given */
>  
> -		mem_info->mapped_logical_address =
> -		    acpi_os_map_memory(address, map_length);
> -		if (!mem_info->mapped_logical_address) {
> +		logical_addr_ptr = acpi_os_map_memory(address, map_length);
> +		if (!logical_addr_ptr) {
>  			ACPI_ERROR((AE_INFO,
>  				    "Could not map memory at 0x%8.8X%8.8X, size %u",
>  				    ACPI_FORMAT_UINT64(address),
>  				    (u32)map_length));
> -			mem_info->mapped_length = 0;
> +			ACPI_FREE(mm);
>  			return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_NO_MEMORY);
>  		}
>  
>  		/* Save the physical address and mapping size */
>  
> -		mem_info->mapped_physical_address = address;
> -		mem_info->mapped_length = map_length;
> +		mm->logical_address = logical_addr_ptr;
> +		mm->physical_address = address;
> +		mm->length = map_length;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Add the new entry to the mappigs list and save it as the
> +		 * current mapping.
> +		 */
> +		mm->next_mm = mem_info->first_mm;
> +		mem_info->first_mm = mm;
> +
> +		mem_info->cur_mm = mm;
>  	}
>  
> +access:
>  	/*
>  	 * Generate a logical pointer corresponding to the address we want to
>  	 * access
>  	 */
> -	logical_addr_ptr = mem_info->mapped_logical_address +
> -	    ((u64) address - (u64) mem_info->mapped_physical_address);
> +	logical_addr_ptr = mm->logical_address +
> +		((u64) address - (u64) mm->physical_address);
>  
>  	ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO,
>  			  "System-Memory (width %u) R/W %u Address=%8.8X%8.8X\n",
> diff --git a/include/acpi/actypes.h b/include/acpi/actypes.h
> index aa236b9e6f24..d005e35ab399 100644
> --- a/include/acpi/actypes.h
> +++ b/include/acpi/actypes.h
> @@ -1201,12 +1201,18 @@ struct acpi_pci_id {
>  	u16 function;
>  };
>  
> +struct acpi_mem_mapping {
> +	acpi_physical_address physical_address;
> +	u8 *logical_address;
> +	acpi_size length;
> +	struct acpi_mem_mapping *next_mm;
> +};
> +
>  struct acpi_mem_space_context {
>  	u32 length;
>  	acpi_physical_address address;
> -	acpi_physical_address mapped_physical_address;
> -	u8 *mapped_logical_address;
> -	acpi_size mapped_length;
> +	struct acpi_mem_mapping *cur_mm;
> +	struct acpi_mem_mapping *first_mm;
>  };
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.26.2
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
ciao,
al
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Al Stone
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx
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