From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: fix pud_huge() for 2-level pagetables
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 10:51:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140516095125.GF5624@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400179157.21547.147.camel@deneb.redhat.com>
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 07:39:17PM +0100, Mark Salter wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 18:55 +0100, Steve Capper wrote:
> > On 15 May 2014 17:27, Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 15:44 +0100, Steve Capper wrote:
> > >> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:19:22AM -0400, Mark Salter wrote:
> > >> > In arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c:unmap_range(), we end up doing an extra put_page()
> > >> > on the stage2 pgd which leads to the BUG in put_page_testzero(). This
> > >> > happens because a pud_huge() test in unmap_range() returns true when it
> > >> > should always be false with 2-level pages tables used by 64k pages.
> > >> > This patch removes support for huge puds if 2-level pagetables are
> > >> > being used.
[...]
> > Yeah I agree for 64K granule it doesn't make sense to have a huge_pud.
> > The patch looks sound now, but checking for a folded pmd may run into
> > problems if/when we get to 3-levels and 64K pages in future.
> >
> > Perhaps checking for PAGE_SHIFT==12 (or something similar) would be a
> > bit more robust?
>
> I don't think testing based on granule size is generally correct either.
> Maybe support for 3-level page tables with 64k granule gets added as an
> option. That would break the pagesize based test. With a folded pmd, we
> know there is no pud, so pud_huge() should always be false.
I agree, pud_huge() should be false in the same way we define
pud_present() to be 1 when __PGTABLE_PMD_FOLDED. The *_huge() macros
aren't covered by the generic headers unfortunately (some clean-up would
be useful at some point but for now this patch is fine).
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-16 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-15 14:19 [PATCH] arm64: fix pud_huge() for 2-level pagetables Mark Salter
2014-05-15 14:44 ` Steve Capper
2014-05-15 16:27 ` Mark Salter
2014-05-15 17:55 ` Steve Capper
2014-05-15 18:39 ` Mark Salter
2014-05-16 9:51 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2014-05-16 10:04 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-16 15:54 ` Mark Salter
2014-05-16 16:20 ` Catalin Marinas
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