Re: [PATCH 1/4] MIPS: Replace _PAGE_READ with _PAGE_NO_READ

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:46:18AM -0700, Kevin Cernekee wrote:

> >> On hardware that does not support RI/XI, EntryLo bits 31:30 / 63:62 will
> >> remain unset and RI/XI permissions will not be enforced.
> >
> > Nice idea but it breaks on 64-bit hardware running 32-bit kernels.  On
> > those the RI/XI bits written to c0_entrylo0/1 31:30 will be interpreted as
> > physical address bits 37:36.
> 
> Hmm, are you sure?  (Unfortunately I do not have a 64-bit machine to
> test it on.)
> 
> I did not touch David's existing build_update_entries(), which makes a
> point not to set the RI/XI bits when the RIXI feature is disabled:
> 
>         if (kernel_uses_smartmips_rixi) {
>                 UASM_i_SRL(p, tmp, tmp, ilog2(_PAGE_NO_EXEC));
>                 UASM_i_SRL(p, ptep, ptep, ilog2(_PAGE_NO_EXEC));
>                 UASM_i_ROTR(p, tmp, tmp, ilog2(_PAGE_GLOBAL) -
> ilog2(_PAGE_NO_EXEC));
>                 if (r4k_250MHZhwbug())
>                         UASM_i_MTC0(p, 0, C0_ENTRYLO0);
>                 UASM_i_MTC0(p, tmp, C0_ENTRYLO0); /* load it */
>                 UASM_i_ROTR(p, ptep, ptep, ilog2(_PAGE_GLOBAL) -
> ilog2(_PAGE_NO_EXEC));
>         } else {
>                 UASM_i_SRL(p, tmp, tmp, ilog2(_PAGE_GLOBAL)); /*
> convert to entrylo0 */
>                 if (r4k_250MHZhwbug())
>                         UASM_i_MTC0(p, 0, C0_ENTRYLO0);
>                 UASM_i_MTC0(p, tmp, C0_ENTRYLO0); /* load it */
>                 UASM_i_SRL(p, ptep, ptep, ilog2(_PAGE_GLOBAL)); /*
> convert to entrylo1 */
>                 if (r45k_bvahwbug())
>                         uasm_i_mfc0(p, tmp, C0_INDEX);
>         }
> 
> If RIXI is enabled, it shifts the SW bits off the end of the register,
> then rotates the RI/XI bits into place.
> 
> If RIXI is disabled, it shifts the SW bits + RI/XI bits off the end of
> the register.  It should not be setting bits 31:30 or 63:62, ever.
> 
> (A side issue here is that ROTR is a MIPS R2 instruction, so we could
> never remove the old handler and use the RIXI version of the TLB
> handler on an R1 machine.)
> 
> If setting EntryLo bits 31:30 for RI/XI is illegal on a 64-bit system
> running a 32-bit kernel, I suspect we will have a problem with the
> existing RIXI TLB update code, regardless of whether my changes are
> applied.

I'm not totally certain with my explanation but it seemed like a good
working hypothesis.  Jayachandran C. bisected this morning's linux-queue
on his Netlogic XLR which is MIPS64 R1 and found this comment causing
the problem.

  Ralf