Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix arm64 boot regression in 5.14

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On 2021-07-20 13:35, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Jonathan reports [1] that commit c742199a014d ("mm/pgtable: add stubs
> for {pmd/pub}_{set/clear}_huge") breaks the boot on arm64 when huge
> mappings are used to map the kernel linear map but the VA size is
> configured such that PUDs are folded. This is because the 
> non-functional
> pud_set_huge() stub is used to create the linear map, which results in
> 1GB holes and a fatal data abort when the kernel attemps to access 
> them.
> 
> Digging further into the issue, it also transpired that huge-vmap is
> silently disabled in these configurations as well [2], despite working
> correctly in 5.13. The latter issue causes the pgtable selftests to
> scream due to a failing consistency check [3].
> 
> Rather than leave mainline in a terminally broken state for arm64 while
> we figure this out, revert the offending commit to get things working
> again. Unfortunately, reverting the change in isolation causes a build
> breakage for 32-bit PowerPC 8xx machines which recently started relying
> on the problematic stubs to support pte-level huge-vmap entries [4].
> Since Christophe is away at the moment, this series first reverts the
> PowerPC 8xx change in order to avoid breaking the build.
> 
> I would really like this to land for -rc3 and I can take these via the
> arm64 fixes queue if the PowerPC folks are alright with them.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Will
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210717160118.9855-1-jonathan@marek.ca
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210719104918.GA6440@willie-the-truck
> [3] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdXShORDox-xxaeUfDW3wx2PeggFSqhVSHVZNKCGK-y_vQ@mail.gmail.com/
> [4] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/8b972f1c03fb6bd59953035f0a3e4d26659de4f8.1620795204.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/
> 
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Jonathan Marek <jonathan@marek.ca>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> 
> --->8
> 
> Jonathan Marek (1):
>   Revert "mm/pgtable: add stubs for {pmd/pub}_{set/clear}_huge"
> 
> Will Deacon (1):
>   Revert "powerpc/8xx: add support for huge pages on VMAP and VMALLOC"
> 
>  arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c                          | 20 ++++-----
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                         |  2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/mmu-8xx.h | 43 --------------------
>  arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c                        | 34 +++++++---------
>  include/linux/pgtable.h                      | 26 +-----------
>  5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

         M.
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