Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] mm/memory_hotplug: Add pgprot_t to mhp_params

Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02T18:55:36Z

On 2020-02-29 3:44 p.m., Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:25 AM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> wrote:
>>
>> devm_memremap_pages() is currently used by the PCI P2PDMA code to create
>> struct page mappings for IO memory. At present, these mappings are created
>> with PAGE_KERNEL which implies setting the PAT bits to be WB. However, on
>> x86, an mtrr register will typically override this and force the cache
>> type to be UC-. In the case firmware doesn't set this register it is
>> effectively WB and will typically result in a machine check exception
>> when it's accessed.
>>
>> Other arches are not currently likely to function correctly seeing they
>> don't have any MTRR registers to fall back on.
>>
>> To solve this, provide a way to specify the pgprot value explicitly to
>> arch_add_memory().
>>
>> Of the arches that support MEMORY_HOTPLUG: x86_64, and arm64 need a simple
>> change to pass the pgprot_t down to their respective functions which set
>> up the page tables. For x86_32, set the page tables explicitly using
>> _set_memory_prot() (seeing they are already mapped). For ia64, s390 and
>> sh, reject anything but PAGE_KERNEL settings -- this should be fine,
>> for now, seeing these architectures don't support ZONE_DEVICE.
>>
>> A check in __add_pages() is also added to ensure the pgprot parameter was
>> set for all arches.
>>
>> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
>> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>> ---
>> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 3 ++-
>> arch/ia64/mm/init.c | 3 +++
>> arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 3 ++-
>> arch/s390/mm/init.c | 3 +++
>> arch/sh/mm/init.c | 3 +++
>> arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 5 +++++
>> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 2 +-
>> include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 2 ++
>> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 5 ++++-
>> mm/memremap.c | 6 +++---
>> 10 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>> index ee37bca8aba8..ea3fa844a8a2 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>> @@ -1058,7 +1058,8 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
>> flags = NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;
>>
>> __create_pgd_mapping(swapper_pg_dir, start, __phys_to_virt(start),
>> - size, PAGE_KERNEL, __pgd_pgtable_alloc, flags);
>> + size, params->pgprot, __pgd_pgtable_alloc,
>> + flags);
>>
>> memblock_clear_nomap(start, size);
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
>> index 97bbc23ea1e3..d637b4ea3147 100644
>> --- a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
>> +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
>> @@ -676,6 +676,9 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
>> unsigned long nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>> int ret;
>>
>> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(params->pgprot.pgprot != PAGE_KERNEL.pgprot))
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> ret = __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
>> if (ret)
>> printk("%s: Problem encountered in __add_pages() as ret=%d\n",
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>> index 19b1da5d7eca..832412bc7fad 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>> @@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ int __ref arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
>> resize_hpt_for_hotplug(memblock_phys_mem_size());
>>
>> start = (unsigned long)__va(start);
>> - rc = create_section_mapping(start, start + size, nid, PAGE_KERNEL);
>> + rc = create_section_mapping(start, start + size, nid,
>> + params->pgprot);
>> if (rc) {
>> pr_warn("Unable to create mapping for hot added memory 0x%llx..0x%llx: %d\n",
>> start, start + size, rc);
>> diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/init.c b/arch/s390/mm/init.c
>> index e9e4a7abd0cc..87b2d024e75a 100644
>> --- a/arch/s390/mm/init.c
>> +++ b/arch/s390/mm/init.c
>> @@ -277,6 +277,9 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
>> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(params->altmap))
>> return -EINVAL;
>>
>> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(params->pgprot.pgprot != PAGE_KERNEL.pgprot))
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> rc = vmem_add_mapping(start, size);
>> if (rc)
>> return rc;
>> diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/init.c b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
>> index e5114c053364..b9de2d4fa57e 100644
>> --- a/arch/sh/mm/init.c
>> +++ b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
>> @@ -412,6 +412,9 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
>> unsigned long nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>> int ret;
>>
>> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(params->pgprot.pgprot != PAGE_KERNEL.pgprot)
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> /* We only have ZONE_NORMAL, so this is easy.. */
>> ret = __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
>> if (unlikely(ret))
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
>> index e25a4218e6ff..96d8e4fb1cc8 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
>> @@ -858,6 +858,11 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
>> {
>> unsigned long start_pfn = start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>> unsigned long nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>> + int ret;
>> +
>> + ret = _set_memory_prot(start, nr_pages, params->pgprot);
>
> Perhaps a comment since it's not immediately obvious where the
> PAGE_KERNEL prot was established, and perhaps add a conditional to
> skip this call in the param->pgprot == PAGE_KERNEL case?

Yes I can add the skip in the PAGE_KERNEL case. Though I'm not sure what
you are asking for with regards to the comment. Just that pgprot is set
by the caller usually to PAGE_KERNEL?

> Other than that looks good to me, but only an ack since I'm only
> testing the x86 changes.
>
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

Thanks,

Logan