From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
"dave.hansen@linux.intel.com" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/PAT: have pat_enabled() properly reflect state when running on e.g. Xen
Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 14:54:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8b559d6-3599-849b-e031-72b4ef76859e@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9385fa60-fa5d-f559-a137-6608408f88b0@suse.com>
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On 28.04.22 16:50, Jan Beulich wrote:
> The latest with commit bdd8b6c98239 ("drm/i915: replace X86_FEATURE_PAT
> with pat_enabled()") pat_enabled() returning false (because of PAT
> initialization being suppressed in the absence of MTRRs being announced
> to be available) has become a problem: The i915 driver now fails to
> initialize when running PV on Xen (i915_gem_object_pin_map() is where I
> located the induced failure), and its error handling is flaky enough to
> (at least sometimes) result in a hung system.
>
> Yet even beyond that problem the keying of the use of WC mappings to
> pat_enabled() (see arch_can_pci_mmap_wc()) means that in particular
> graphics frame buffer accesses would have been quite a bit less
> performant than possible.
>
> Arrange for the function to return true in such environments, without
> undermining the rest of PAT MSR management logic considering PAT to be
> disabled: Specifically, no writes to the PAT MSR should occur.
>
> For the new boolean to live in .init.data, init_cache_modes() also needs
> moving to .init.text (where it could/should have lived already before).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
I think this approach isn't the best way to tackle the issue.
It can be solved rather easily by not deriving the supported caching
modes via pat_enabled(), but by adding specific functions to query
the needed caching mode from the PAT translation tables, and to use
those functions instead of pat_enabled().
I'm preparing a patch for that purpose.
Juergen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-03 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-28 14:50 [PATCH] x86/PAT: have pat_enabled() properly reflect state when running on e.g. Xen Jan Beulich
2022-05-03 12:54 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2022-05-11 13:32 ` Juergen Gross
2022-05-21 13:56 ` Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-05-25 8:55 ` Ping: " Jan Beulich
2022-07-04 11:58 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-07-04 12:26 ` Jan Beulich
2022-07-05 10:57 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-07-05 11:02 ` Jan Beulich
2022-07-05 13:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-07-05 13:38 ` Juergen Gross
2022-07-14 17:17 ` Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-07-14 22:33 ` Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-07-14 22:45 ` Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-07-19 14:26 ` Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-07-05 15:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-07-05 15:56 ` Jan Beulich
2022-07-05 16:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-07-06 6:17 ` Jan Beulich
2022-07-06 17:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-07-07 6:38 ` Jan Beulich
2022-07-11 10:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-07-11 11:38 ` Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-07-11 12:28 ` [PATCH] x86/PAT: have pat_enabled() properly reflect state when running on e.g. Xen, with corrected patch Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-07-11 14:18 ` [PATCH] x86/PAT: have pat_enabled() properly reflect state when running on e.g. Xen Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-07-11 14:31 ` Juergen Gross
2022-07-11 17:41 ` Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-07-12 5:49 ` Juergen Gross
2022-07-12 6:04 ` Jan Beulich
2022-07-12 13:22 ` Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-07-12 13:32 ` Juergen Gross
2022-07-12 15:09 ` Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-07-12 15:30 ` Juergen Gross
2022-07-12 16:34 ` Chuck Zmudzinski
2022-08-15 10:20 ` [tip: x86/urgent] x86/PAT: Have pat_enabled() properly reflect state when running on Xen tip-bot2 for Jan Beulich
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