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* [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix BTT data corruptions after crash
@ 2016-02-11 21:24 Toshi Kani
  2016-02-11 21:24 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/lib/copy_user_64.S: cleanup __copy_user_nocache() Toshi Kani
  2016-02-11 21:24 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] x86/lib/copy_user_64.S: Handle 4-byte nocache copy Toshi Kani
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Toshi Kani @ 2016-02-11 21:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tglx, mingo, hpa, bp, dan.j.williams
  Cc: ross.zwisler, vishal.l.verma, micah.parrish, brian.boylston, x86,
	linux-nvdimm, linux-kernel

Data corruption issues were observed in tests which initiated a system
crash/reset while accessing BTT devices.  This problem is reproducible.

The BTT driver calls pmem_rw_bytes() to update data in pmem devices.
This interface calls __copy_user_nocache(), which uses non-temporal
stores so that the stores to pmem are persistent.

__copy_user_nocache() uses non-temporal stores when a request size is
8 bytes or larger (and is aligned by 8 bytes).  The BTT driver updates
the BTT map table, which entry size is 4 bytes.  Therefore, updates to
the map table entries remain cached, and are not written to pmem after
a crash.  Since the BTT driver makes previous blocks free and uses them
for subsequent writes, the map table ends up pointing to blocks allocated
for other LBAs after a crash.

Patch 1 cleans up __copy_user_nocache() before making changes.
Patch 2 makes __copy_user_nocache() handle 4-byte nocache copy.

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v3:
 - Add a cleanup patch to rename numeric labels to descriptively named
   labels with .L. (Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov)
v2:
 - Add comments (Ingo Molnar).
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Toshi Kani (2):
 1/2 x86/lib/copy_user_64.S: cleanup __copy_user_nocache()
 2/2 x86/lib/copy_user_64.S: Handle 4-byte nocache copy

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 arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S | 142 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 101 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

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2016-02-11 21:24 [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix BTT data corruptions after crash Toshi Kani
2016-02-11 21:24 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/lib/copy_user_64.S: cleanup __copy_user_nocache() Toshi Kani
2016-02-17  8:02   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-02-17 15:52     ` Toshi Kani
2016-02-17 12:13   ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/uaccess/64: Make the __copy_user_nocache() assembly code more readable tip-bot for Toshi Kani
2016-02-11 21:24 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] x86/lib/copy_user_64.S: Handle 4-byte nocache copy Toshi Kani
2016-02-17 12:14   ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/uaccess/64: Handle the caching of 4-byte nocache copies properly in __copy_user_nocache () tip-bot for Toshi Kani

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