[PATCH 3/5] arch/powerpc/mm: Nest MMU workaround for mprotect/autonuma RW upgrade.

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Thu Oct 11 14:52:45 AEDT 2018


NestMMU requires us to mark the pte invalid and flush the tlb when we do a
RW upgrade of pte. We fixed a variant of this in the fault path in commit
Fixes: bd5050e38aec ("powerpc/mm/radix: Change pte relax sequence to handle nest MMU hang")

Do the same for mprotect and autonuma upgrades.

Hugetlb is handled in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 18 +++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c           | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
index f108e2ce7f64..c55468eaedc7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
@@ -1324,6 +1324,24 @@ static inline const int pud_pfn(pud_t pud)
 	BUILD_BUG();
 	return 0;
 }
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_MODIFY_PROT_TRANSACTION
+pte_t ptep_modify_prot_start(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, pte_t *);
+void ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long,
+			     pte_t *, pte_t, pte_t);
+
+/*
+ * Returns true for a Read or Write upgrade of pte.
+ */
+static inline bool is_pte_upgrade(unsigned long old_val, unsigned long new_val)
+{
+	if ((!(old_val & _PAGE_READ)) && (new_val & _PAGE_READ))
+		return true;
+
+	if ((!(old_val & _PAGE_WRITE)) && (new_val & _PAGE_WRITE))
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 #endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_BOOK3S_64_PGTABLE_H_ */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
index 43e99e1d947b..43f71125249b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
@@ -481,3 +481,37 @@ void arch_report_meminfo(struct seq_file *m)
 		   atomic_long_read(&direct_pages_count[MMU_PAGE_1G]) << 20);
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
+
+pte_t ptep_modify_prot_start(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+			     pte_t *ptep)
+{
+	unsigned long pte_val;
+
+	/*
+	 * Clear the _PAGE_PRESENT so that no hardware parallel update is
+	 * possible. Also keep the pte_present true so that we don't take
+	 * wrong fault.
+	 */
+	pte_val = pte_update(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep, _PAGE_PRESENT, _PAGE_INVALID, 0);
+
+	return __pte(pte_val);
+
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ptep_modify_prot_start);
+
+void ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+			     pte_t *ptep, pte_t old_pte, pte_t pte)
+{
+	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+
+	/*
+	 * To avoid NMMU hang while relaxing access we need to flush the tlb before
+	 * we set the new value.
+	 */
+	if (is_pte_upgrade(pte_val(old_pte), pte_val(pte)) &&
+	    (atomic_read(&mm->context.copros) > 0))
+		flush_tlb_page(vma, addr);
+
+	set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, pte);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ptep_modify_prot_commit);
-- 
2.17.1



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