[PATCH 1/5] powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Nov 7 13:00:51 AEDT 2017



On 11/06/2017 04:35 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/06/2017 04:24 PM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:08:06 +0530
>> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> When allocating VA space with a hint that crosses 128TB, the SLB 
>>>> addr_limit
>>>> variable is not expanded if addr is not > 128TB, but the slice 
>>>> allocation
>>>> looks at task_size, which is 512TB. This results in slice_check_fit()
>>>> incorrectly succeeding because the slice_count truncates off bit 128 
>>>> of the
>>>> requested mask, so the comparison to the available mask succeeds.
>>>
>>>
>>> But then the mask passed to slice_check_fit() is generated using
>>> context.addr_limit as max value. So how did that return succcess? ie,
>>> we get the request mask via
>>>
>>> slice_range_to_mask(addr, len, &mask);
>>>
>>> And the potential/possible mask using
>>>
>>> slice_mask_for_size(mm, psize, &good_mask);
>>>
>>> So how did slice_check_fit() return sucess with
>>>
>>> slice_check_fit(mm, mask, good_mask);
>>
>> Because the addr_limit check is used to *limit* the comparison.
>>
>> The available mask had bit up to 127 set, and the mask had 127 and
>> 128 set. However the 128T addr_limit causes only bits 0-127 to be
>> compared.
>>
> 
> Should we fix it then via ? I haven't tested this yet. Also this result 
> in us comparing more bits?
> 
> modified   arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c
> @@ -169,13 +169,12 @@ static int slice_check_fit(struct mm_struct *mm,
>                  struct slice_mask mask, struct slice_mask available)
>   {
>       DECLARE_BITMAP(result, SLICE_NUM_HIGH);
> -    unsigned long slice_count = 
> GET_HIGH_SLICE_INDEX(mm->context.addr_limit);
> 
>       bitmap_and(result, mask.high_slices,
> -           available.high_slices, slice_count);
> +           available.high_slices, SLICE_NUM_HIGH);
> 
>       return (mask.low_slices & available.low_slices) == mask.low_slices &&
> -        bitmap_equal(result, mask.high_slices, slice_count);
> +        bitmap_equal(result, mask.high_slices, SLICE_NUM_HIGH)
> 
> 

Florian, will you be able to test this patch ? We may not really want to 
push this. But it will confirm that we end up getting >128TB address 
because of this.

-aneesh



More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list