Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] x86/mtrr: Fix Xorg crashes in Qemu sessions

[Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>]

On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 18:00 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 06:46:56PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > A Xorg failure on qemu32 was reported as a regression caused
> > by 'commit 9cd25aac1f44 ("x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is
> > disabled")'. [1]  This patch fixes the regression.
> 
> I hope so.
> 
> > Negative effects of this regression were two failures in Xorg
> > on qemu32 env, which were triggered by the fact that its virtual
> 
> "... with QEMU CPU model "qemu32" (-cpu qemu32) ... "

Will add this description.

> > CPU does not support MTRR. [2]
> > 
> >  #1. copy_process() failed in the check in reserve_pfn_range()
> > 
> >     copy_process
> >      copy_mm
> >       dup_mm
> >        dup_mmap
> >         copy_page_range
> >          track_pfn_copy
> >           reserve_pfn_range
> 
> Here's where you describe why it failed the check and which check.

Will do.

> >  #2. error path in copy_process() then hit WARN_ON_ONCE in
> >      untrack_pfn().
> > 
> >      x86/PAT: Xorg:509 map pfn expected mapping type uncached-
> >      minus for [mem 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff], got write-combining
> >       Call Trace:
> >      dump_stack+0x58/0x79
> >      warn_slowpath_common+0x8b/0xc0
> >      ? untrack_pfn+0x9f/0xb0
> >      ? untrack_pfn+0x9f/0xb0
> >      warn_slowpath_null+0x22/0x30
> >      untrack_pfn+0x9f/0xb0
> >      ? __kunmap_atomic+0x54/0x110
> >      unmap_single_vma+0x56f/0x580
> >      ? pagevec_move_tail_fn+0xa0/0xa0
> >      unmap_vmas+0x43/0x60
> >      exit_mmap+0x5f/0xf0
> >      mmput+0x2d/0xa0
> >      copy_process.part.47+0x1229/0x1430
> >      _do_fork+0xb4/0x3b0
> >      SyS_clone+0x2c/0x30
> >      do_syscall_32_irqs_on+0x54/0xb0
> >      entry_INT80_32+0x2a/0x2a
> 
> You can delete the offsets after the "+" - they're useless.

Will do.

> > These negative effects are caused by two separate bugs, but they
> > can be dealt in lower priority.
> 
> ??

Will change to "they can be addressed in separate patches."

> > Fixing the pat_init() issue below
> > avoids Xorg to hit these cases.
> > 
> > When the CPU does not support MTRR, MTRR does not call pat_init(),
> > which leaves PAT enabled without initializing PAT.  This pat_init()
> > issue is a long-standing issue, but manifested as issue #1 (and then
> > hit issue #2) with the commit
> 
> commit 9cd25aac1f44 ?

Yes. I had to remove this number since checkpatch complained that I needed
to quote the whole patch tile again.  I will ignore this checkpatch error
and add this commit number here.

> > because the memtype now tracks cache
> > attribute with 'page_cache_mode'.  A WC map request is tracked as WC
> > in memtype, but sets a PTE as UC (pgprot) per __cachemode2pte_tbl[].
> > This caused the error in reserve_pfn_range() when it was called from
> > track_pfn_copy(), which obtained pgprot from a PTE.  It converts
> > pgprot to page_cache_mode, which does not necessarily result in
> > the original page_cache_mode since __cachemode2pte_tbl[] redirects
> > multiple types to UC.  This is a separate issue in reserve_pfn_range().
> 
> Good.
> 
> > This pat_init() issue existed before the commit, but we used pgprot
> > in memtype.  Hence, we did not have issue #1 before.  But WC request
> > resulted in WT in effect because WC pgrot is actually WT when PAT
> > is not initialized.  This is not how it was designed to work.  When
> > PAT is set to disable properly, WC is converted to UC.  The use of
> > WT can result in a system crash if the target range does not support
> > WT.  Fortunately, nobody ran into such issue before.
> > 
> > To fix this pat_init() issue, PAT code has been enhanced to provide
> > pat_disable() interface, which disables the OS to initialize PAT MSR,
> 
> 				... prevents the OS from initializing the
> PAT MSR.

Will do.

> > and sets PAT table to the BIOS handoff state.
> 
> > This patch changes
> > MTRR code to call pat_disable() when MTRR is disabled as PAT cannot
> > be initialized in this case.  This sets PAT to disable properly, and
> > makes PAT code to bypass the memtype check.  This avoids issue #1
> > (which can be dealt in lower priority).
> 
> You don't need all that text from "This patch ..." on - we can see that
> in the diff. The commit message needs to contain "why" not "what".

OK.

> >  
> >  /*
> > @@ -83,9 +84,12 @@ static inline int mtrr_trim_uncached_memory(unsigned
> > long end_pfn)
> >  static inline void mtrr_centaur_report_mcr(int mcr, u32 lo, u32 hi)
> >  {
> >  }
> > +static inline void mtrr_bp_init(void)
> > +{
> > +	pat_disable("Skip PAT initialization");
> 
> Make that more user-friendly:
> 
> 		   "MTRRs disabled, skipping PAT initialization too."

Agreed. Will do.

> > +}
> >  
> >  #define mtrr_ap_init() do {} while (0)
> > -#define mtrr_bp_init() do {} while (0)
> >  #define set_mtrr_aps_delayed_init() do {} while (0)
> >  #define mtrr_aps_init() do {} while (0)
> >  #define mtrr_bp_restore() do {} while (0)
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
> > b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
> > index 10f8d47..2d7d8d7 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
> > @@ -759,8 +759,16 @@ void __init mtrr_bp_init(void)
> >  		}
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	if (!mtrr_enabled())
> > +	if (!mtrr_enabled()) {
> >  		pr_info("MTRR: Disabled\n");
> > +
> > +		/*
> > +		 * PAT initialization relies on MTRR's rendezvous
> > handler.
> > +		 * Skip PAT init until the handler can initialize both
> > +		 * features independently.
> > +		 */
> > +		pat_disable("Skip PAT initialization");
> 
> Ditto: you can merge the pr_info text with the pat_disable() string.

Will do.

Thanks,
-Toshi

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