Re: [PATCH] arm/arm64: xen: Fix to convert percpu address to gfn correctly

Julien Grall
2020-10-05T18:41:16Z

Hi Masami,

On 05/10/2020 14:39, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Use per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() instead of virt_to_phys() for per-cpu
> address conversion.
>
> In xen_starting_cpu(), per-cpu xen_vcpu_info address is converted
> to gfn by virt_to_gfn() macro. However, since the virt_to_gfn(v)
> assumes the given virtual address is in contiguous kernel memory
> area, it can not convert the per-cpu memory if it is allocated on
> vmalloc area (depends on CONFIG_SMP).

Are you sure about this? I have a .config with CONFIG_SMP=y where the
per-cpu region for CPU0 is allocated outside of vmalloc area.

However, I was able to trigger the bug as soon as CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
was enabled.

[...]

> Fixes: 250c9af3d831 ("arm/xen: Add support for 64KB page granularity")

FWIW, I think the bug was already present before 250c9af3d831.

> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c | 2 +-
> include/xen/arm/page.h | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> index e93145d72c26..a6ab3689b2f4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int xen_starting_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
> pr_info("Xen: initializing cpu%d\n", cpu);
> vcpup = per_cpu_ptr(xen_vcpu_info, cpu);
>
> - info.mfn = virt_to_gfn(vcpup);
> + info.mfn = percpu_to_gfn(vcpup);
> info.offset = xen_offset_in_page(vcpup);
>
> err = HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op(VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info, xen_vcpu_nr(cpu),
> diff --git a/include/xen/arm/page.h b/include/xen/arm/page.h
> index 39df751d0dc4..ac1b65470563 100644
> --- a/include/xen/arm/page.h
> +++ b/include/xen/arm/page.h
> @@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ static inline unsigned long bfn_to_pfn(unsigned long bfn)
> })
> #define gfn_to_virt(m) (__va(gfn_to_pfn(m) << XEN_PAGE_SHIFT))
>
> +#define percpu_to_gfn(v) \
> + (pfn_to_gfn(per_cpu_ptr_to_phys(v) >> XEN_PAGE_SHIFT))
> +
> /* Only used in PV code. But ARM guests are always HVM. */
> static inline xmaddr_t arbitrary_virt_to_machine(void *vaddr)
> {
>

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall