Patch "x86/mm/pat: Add support of non-default PAT MSR setting" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/mm/pat: Add support of non-default PAT MSR setting

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-mm-pat-add-support-of-non-default-pat-msr-setting.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 02f037d641dc6672be5cfe7875a48ab99b95b154 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:41:57 -0600
Subject: x86/mm/pat: Add support of non-default PAT MSR setting

From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>

commit 02f037d641dc6672be5cfe7875a48ab99b95b154 upstream.

In preparation for fixing a regression caused by:

  9cd25aac1f44 ("x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is disabled")'

... PAT needs to support a case that PAT MSR is initialized with a
non-default value.

When pat_init() is called and PAT is disabled, it initializes the
PAT table with the BIOS default value. Xen, however, sets PAT MSR
with a non-default value to enable WC. This causes inconsistency
between the PAT table and PAT MSR when PAT is set to disable on Xen.

Change pat_init() to handle the PAT disable cases properly.  Add
init_cache_modes() to handle two cases when PAT is set to disable.

 1. CPU supports PAT: Set PAT table to be consistent with PAT MSR.
 2. CPU does not support PAT: Set PAT table to be consistent with
    PWT and PCD bits in a PTE.

Note, __init_cache_modes(), renamed from pat_init_cache_modes(),
will be changed to a static function in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: elliott@hpe.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458769323-24491-2-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h |    2 -
 arch/x86/mm/pat.c          |   73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c   |    2 -
 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 bool pat_enabled(void);
 extern void pat_init(void);
-void pat_init_cache_modes(u64);
+void __init_cache_modes(u64);
 
 extern int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end,
 		enum page_cache_mode req_pcm, enum page_cache_mode *ret_pcm);
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static enum page_cache_mode pat_get_cach
  * configuration.
  * Using lower indices is preferred, so we start with highest index.
  */
-void pat_init_cache_modes(u64 pat)
+void __init_cache_modes(u64 pat)
 {
 	enum page_cache_mode cache;
 	char pat_msg[33];
@@ -207,9 +207,6 @@ static void pat_bsp_init(u64 pat)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	if (!pat_enabled())
-		goto done;
-
 	rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, tmp_pat);
 	if (!tmp_pat) {
 		pat_disable("PAT MSR is 0, disabled.");
@@ -218,15 +215,11 @@ static void pat_bsp_init(u64 pat)
 
 	wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
 
-done:
-	pat_init_cache_modes(pat);
+	__init_cache_modes(pat);
 }
 
 static void pat_ap_init(u64 pat)
 {
-	if (!pat_enabled())
-		return;
-
 	if (!cpu_has_pat) {
 		/*
 		 * If this happens we are on a secondary CPU, but switched to
@@ -238,18 +231,32 @@ static void pat_ap_init(u64 pat)
 	wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
 }
 
-void pat_init(void)
+static void init_cache_modes(void)
 {
-	u64 pat;
-	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &boot_cpu_data;
+	u64 pat = 0;
+	static int init_cm_done;
 
-	if (!pat_enabled()) {
+	if (init_cm_done)
+		return;
+
+	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PAT)) {
+		/*
+		 * CPU supports PAT. Set PAT table to be consistent with
+		 * PAT MSR. This case supports "nopat" boot option, and
+		 * virtual machine environments which support PAT without
+		 * MTRRs. In specific, Xen has unique setup to PAT MSR.
+		 *
+		 * If PAT MSR returns 0, it is considered invalid and emulates
+		 * as No PAT.
+		 */
+		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
+	}
+
+	if (!pat) {
 		/*
 		 * No PAT. Emulate the PAT table that corresponds to the two
-		 * cache bits, PWT (Write Through) and PCD (Cache Disable). This
-		 * setup is the same as the BIOS default setup when the system
-		 * has PAT but the "nopat" boot option has been specified. This
-		 * emulated PAT table is used when MSR_IA32_CR_PAT returns 0.
+		 * cache bits, PWT (Write Through) and PCD (Cache Disable).
+		 * This setup is also the same as the BIOS default setup.
 		 *
 		 * PTE encoding:
 		 *
@@ -266,10 +273,36 @@ void pat_init(void)
 		 */
 		pat = PAT(0, WB) | PAT(1, WT) | PAT(2, UC_MINUS) | PAT(3, UC) |
 		      PAT(4, WB) | PAT(5, WT) | PAT(6, UC_MINUS) | PAT(7, UC);
+	}
+
+	__init_cache_modes(pat);
+
+	init_cm_done = 1;
+}
+
+/**
+ * pat_init - Initialize PAT MSR and PAT table
+ *
+ * This function initializes PAT MSR and PAT table with an OS-defined value
+ * to enable additional cache attributes, WC and WT.
+ *
+ * This function must be called on all CPUs using the specific sequence of
+ * operations defined in Intel SDM. mtrr_rendezvous_handler() provides this
+ * procedure for PAT.
+ */
+void pat_init(void)
+{
+	u64 pat;
+	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &boot_cpu_data;
+
+	if (!pat_enabled()) {
+		init_cache_modes();
+		return;
+	}
 
-	} else if ((c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL) &&
-		   (((c->x86 == 0x6) && (c->x86_model <= 0xd)) ||
-		    ((c->x86 == 0xf) && (c->x86_model <= 0x6)))) {
+	if ((c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL) &&
+	    (((c->x86 == 0x6) && (c->x86_model <= 0xd)) ||
+	     ((c->x86 == 0xf) && (c->x86_model <= 0x6)))) {
 		/*
 		 * PAT support with the lower four entries. Intel Pentium 2,
 		 * 3, M, and 4 are affected by PAT errata, which makes the
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -1623,7 +1623,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init xen_sta
 	 * configuration.
 	 */
 	rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, pat);
-	pat_init_cache_modes(pat);
+	__init_cache_modes(pat);
 
 	/* keep using Xen gdt for now; no urgent need to change it */
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from toshi.kani@hpe.com are

queue-4.6/x86-mm-pat-replace-cpu_has_pat-with-boot_cpu_has.patch
queue-4.6/x86-mtrr-fix-xorg-crashes-in-qemu-sessions.patch
queue-4.6/libnvdimm-pfn-dax-fix-initialization-vs-autodetect-for-mode-alignment.patch
queue-4.6/x86-mm-pat-add-support-of-non-default-pat-msr-setting.patch
queue-4.6/x86-xen-pat-remove-pat-table-init-code-from-xen.patch
queue-4.6/x86-mtrr-fix-pat-init-handling-when-mtrr-is-disabled.patch
queue-4.6/x86-mm-pat-add-pat_disable-interface.patch
queue-4.6/x86-mm-pat-fix-bug_on-in-mmap_mem-on-qemu-i386.patch
queue-4.6/x86-pat-document-the-pat-initialization-sequence.patch