Patch "x86/mm/pat: Add pat_disable() interface" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

Patch "x86/mm/pat: Add pat_disable() interface" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    x86/mm/pat: Add pat_disable() interface

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-pat_disable-interface.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 224bb1e5d67ba0f2872c98002d6a6f991ac6fd4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:41:58 -0600
Subject: x86/mm/pat: Add pat_disable() interface

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

commit 224bb1e5d67ba0f2872c98002d6a6f991ac6fd4a upstream.

In preparation for fixing a regression caused by:

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

... PAT needs to provide an interface that prevents the OS from
initializing the PAT MSR.

PAT MSR initialization must be done on all CPUs using the specific
sequence of operations defined in the Intel SDM.  This requires MTRRs
to be enabled since pat_init() is called as part of MTRR init
from mtrr_rendezvous_handler().

Make pat_disable() as the interface that prevents the OS from
initializing the PAT MSR.  MTRR will call this interface when it
cannot provide the SDM-defined sequence to initialize PAT.

This also assures that pat_disable() called from pat_bsp_init()
will set the PAT table properly when CPU does not support PAT.

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: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458769323-24491-3-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 |    1 +
 arch/x86/mm/pat.c          |   13 ++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <asm/pgtable_types.h>
 
 bool pat_enabled(void);
+void pat_disable(const char *reason);
 extern void pat_init(void);
 void __init_cache_modes(u64);
 
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -40,11 +40,22 @@
 static bool boot_cpu_done;
 
 static int __read_mostly __pat_enabled = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_PAT);
+static void init_cache_modes(void);
 
-static inline void pat_disable(const char *reason)
+void pat_disable(const char *reason)
 {
+	if (!__pat_enabled)
+		return;
+
+	if (boot_cpu_done) {
+		WARN_ONCE(1, "x86/PAT: PAT cannot be disabled after initialization\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
 	__pat_enabled = 0;
 	pr_info("x86/PAT: %s\n", reason);
+
+	init_cache_modes();
 }
 
 static int __init nopat(char *str)


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