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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	 Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	 Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,  linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/mm: Check for pfn instead of page in vmalloc_sync_one()
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:48:22 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1907152047550.1767@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190715154418.GA13091@suse.de>

On Mon, 15 Jul 2019, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 03:08:42PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Jul 2019, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> > > 
> > > Do not require a struct page for the mapped memory location
> > > because it might not exist. This can happen when an
> > > ioremapped region is mapped with 2MB pages.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> > 
> > Lacks a Fixes tag, hmm?
> 
> Yeah, right, the question is, which commit to put in there. The problem
> results from two changes:
> 
> 	1) Introduction of !SHARED_KERNEL_PMD path in x86-32. In itself
> 	   this is not a problem, and the path was only enabled for
> 	   Xen-PV.
> 
> 	2) Huge IORemapings which use the PMD level. Also not a problem
> 	   by itself, but together with !SHARED_KERNEL_PMD problematic
> 	   because it requires to sync the PMD entries between all
> 	   page-tables, and that was not implemented.
> 
> Before PTI-x32 was merged this problem did not show up, maybe because
> the 32-bit Xen-PV users did not trigger it. But with PTI-x32 all PAE
> users run with !SHARED_KERNEL_PMD and the problem popped up.
> 
> For the last patch I put the PTI-x32 enablement commit in the fixes tag,
> because that was the one that showed up during bisection. But more
> correct would probably be
> 
> 	5d72b4fba40e ('x86, mm: support huge I/O mapping capability I/F')

Looks about right.

Thanks,

	tglx


  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-15 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-15 11:02 [PATCH 0/3] Sync unmappings in vmalloc/ioremap areas Joerg Roedel
2019-07-15 11:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/mm: Check for pfn instead of page in vmalloc_sync_one() Joerg Roedel
2019-07-15 13:08   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-15 15:44     ` Joerg Roedel
2019-07-15 18:48       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2019-07-15 11:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/mm: Sync also unmappings " Joerg Roedel
2019-07-15 13:08   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-15 11:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/vmalloc: Sync unmappings in vunmap_page_range() Joerg Roedel
2019-07-17  7:14 [PATCH 0/3 v2] Sync unmappings in vmalloc/ioremap areas Joerg Roedel
2019-07-17  7:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/mm: Check for pfn instead of page in vmalloc_sync_one() Joerg Roedel
2019-07-19 18:46 [PATCH 0/3 v3] Sync unmappings in vmalloc/ioremap areas Joerg Roedel
2019-07-19 18:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/mm: Check for pfn instead of page in vmalloc_sync_one() Joerg Roedel

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