[PATCH] PPC: fix LOGMPP instruction opcode and inline asm
Jan Stancek
jstancek at redhat.com
Sun Oct 18 06:12:31 AEDT 2015
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stewart Smith" <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> To: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: paulus at samba.org, thuth at redhat.com, jstancek at redhat.com, dgibson at redhat.com, benh at kernel.crashing.org, "Stewart
> Smith" <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>, stable at vger.kernel.org
> Sent: Friday, 16 October, 2015 3:20:35 AM
> Subject: [PATCH] PPC: fix LOGMPP instruction opcode and inline asm
>
> Back in 9678cda when we started using the Micro Partition Prefetch Engine
> in POWER8 for KVM, there were two mistakes introduced from the original
> patch used for investigation and microbenchmarks.
>
> One mistake was that the opcode was constructed incorrectly, putting
> the register in the wrong field in the opcode, meaning that we were
> asking the chip to read the memory address from some other register than
> what we intended - probably r0. For those unfortunate enough to have r0
> point somewhere in memory they cared about, the prefetch engine would
> gleefully trash all over it leading to some data you cared about being
> replaced with a list of physical addresses.
>
> In addition, the logmpp inline function incorrectly used R1 rather than
> %0, leading to even if we got the construction of the instruction right,
> we'd still generate the wrong thing, looking at the address in r1 rather
> than whatever we were asked to look at.
>
> So, this patch fixes the following:
> - the inline logmpp function's inline asm to be correct
> - puts the register in the right field of the instruction
>
> This bug would overwrite a single 64k page.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1269653
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271997
>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 9678cda ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV")
> Reported-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek at redhat.com>
After running a kernel with this patch for 36+ hours, I can no longer
reproduce the user-space corruption I have been seeing.
Previously it reproduced fairly quickly (within hour, on IBM Power S814
[8286-41A], 16GB RAM) by starting/stopping couple KVM guests in loop.
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h
> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h
> index 34a05a1a990b..3af1c1e35435 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ extern struct ppc64_caches ppc64_caches;
>
> static inline void logmpp(u64 x)
> {
> - asm volatile(PPC_LOGMPP(R1) : : "r" (x));
> + asm volatile(PPC_LOGMPP(%0) : : "r" (x));
> }
>
> #endif /* __powerpc64__ && ! __ASSEMBLY__ */
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
> index 65136928a572..0dc2f6f9b445 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h
> @@ -304,8 +304,8 @@
> #define PPC_LDARX(t, a, b, eh) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_LDARX | \
> ___PPC_RT(t) | ___PPC_RA(a) | \
> ___PPC_RB(b) | __PPC_EH(eh))
> -#define PPC_LOGMPP(b) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_LOGMPP | \
> - __PPC_RB(b))
> +#define PPC_LOGMPP(a) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_LOGMPP | \
> + ___PPC_RA(a))
> #define PPC_LWARX(t, a, b, eh) stringify_in_c(.long PPC_INST_LWARX | \
> ___PPC_RT(t) | ___PPC_RA(a) | \
> ___PPC_RB(b) | __PPC_EH(eh))
> --
> 2.1.4
>
>
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