[PATCH] powerpc/code-patching: Pre-map patch area

[Michael Ellerman]

Paul reported a warning with DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:256
  in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
  preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
  ...
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack_lvl+0xa0/0xec (unreliable)
    __might_resched+0x2f4/0x310
    kmem_cache_alloc+0x220/0x4b0
    __pud_alloc+0x74/0x1d0
    hash__map_kernel_page+0x2cc/0x390
    do_patch_instruction+0x134/0x4a0
    arch_jump_label_transform+0x64/0x78
    __jump_label_update+0x148/0x180
    static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0xd0/0x120
    static_key_enable+0x30/0x50
    check_kvm_guest+0x60/0x88
    pSeries_smp_probe+0x54/0xb0
    smp_prepare_cpus+0x3e0/0x430
    kernel_init_freeable+0x20c/0x43c
    kernel_init+0x30/0x1a0
    ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64

Peter pointed out that this is because do_patch_instruction() has
disabled interrupts, but then map_patch_area() calls map_kernel_page()
then hash__map_kernel_page() which does a sleeping memory allocation.

We only see the warning in KVM guests with SMT enabled, which is not
particularly common, or on other platforms if CONFIG_KPROBES is
disabled, also not common. The reason we don't see it in most
configurations is that another path that happens to have interrupts
enabled has allocated the required page tables for us, eg. there's a
path in kprobes init that does that. That's just pure luck though.

As Christophe suggested, the simplest solution is to do a dummy
map/unmap when we initialise the patching, so that any required page
table levels are pre-allocated before the first call to
do_patch_instruction(). This works because the unmap doesn't free any
page tables that were allocated by the map, it just clears the PTE,
leaving the page table levels there for the next map.

Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de>
Debugged-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
index 906d43463366..00c68e7fb11e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -43,9 +43,14 @@ int raw_patch_instruction(u32 *addr, ppc_inst_t instr)
 #ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vm_struct *, text_poke_area);
 
+static int map_patch_area(void *addr, unsigned long text_poke_addr);
+static void unmap_patch_area(unsigned long addr);
+
 static int text_area_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	struct vm_struct *area;
+	unsigned long addr;
+	int err;
 
 	area = get_vm_area(PAGE_SIZE, VM_ALLOC);
 	if (!area) {
@@ -53,6 +58,15 @@ static int text_area_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
 			cpu);
 		return -1;
 	}
+
+	// Map/unmap the area to ensure all page tables are pre-allocated
+	addr = (unsigned long)area->addr;
+	err = map_patch_area(empty_zero_page, addr);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	unmap_patch_area(addr);
+
 	this_cpu_write(text_poke_area, area);
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.34.1