Re: xen/arm and swiotlb-xen: possible data corruption

["Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com>]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 02:39:55PM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Julien Grall wrote:
> > Hi Stefano,
> > 
> > On 02/03/17 19:12, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Julien Grall wrote:
> > > > On 02/03/17 08:53, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:38:37AM +0100, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 05:05:21PM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > Julien, from looking at the two diffs, this is simpler and nicer, but if
> > > you look at xen/include/asm-arm/page.h, my patch made
> > > clean_dcache_va_range consistent with invalidate_dcache_va_range. For
> > > consistency, I would prefer to deal with the two functions the same way.
> > > Although it is not a spec requirement, I also think that it is a good
> > > idea to issue cache flushes from cacheline aligned addresses, like
> > > invalidate_dcache_va_range does and Linux does, to make more obvious
> > > what is going on.
> > 
> > invalid_dcache_va_range is split because the cache instruction differs for the
> > start and end if unaligned. For them you want to use clean & invalidate rather
> > than invalidate.
> > 
> > If you look at the implementation of other cache helpers in Linux (see
> > dcache_by_line_op in arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h), they will only align
> > start & end.
> 
> I don't think so, unless I am reading dcache_by_line_op wrong.
> 
> 
> > Also, the invalid_dcache_va_range is using modulo which I would rather avoid.
> > The modulo in this case will not be optimized by the compiler because
> > cacheline_bytes is not a constant.
> 
> That is a good point. What if I replace the modulo op with
> 
>   p & (cacheline_bytes - 1)
> 
> in invalidate_dcache_va_range, then add the similar code to
> clean_dcache_va_range and clean_and_invalidate_dcache_va_range?


Yeah, if there was some kind of generic ALIGN or ROUND_DOWN macro we could do:

--- a/xen/include/asm-arm/page.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/page.h
@@ -325,7 +325,9 @@ static inline int clean_dcache_va_range(const void *p, unsigned long size)
 {
     const void *end;
     dsb(sy);           /* So the CPU issues all writes to the range */
-    for ( end = p + size; p < end; p += cacheline_bytes )
+
+    p = (void *)ALIGN((uintptr_t)p, cacheline_bytes);
+    end = (void *)ROUNDUP((uintptr_t)p + size, cacheline_bytes);
+    for ( ; p < end; p += cacheline_bytes )
         asm volatile (__clean_dcache_one(0) : : "r" (p));
     dsb(sy);           /* So we know the flushes happen before continuing */
     /* ARM callers assume that dcache_* functions cannot fail. */

I think that would achieve the same result as your patch Stefano?

Cheers,
Edgar


> 
> 
> > BTW, you would also need to fix clean_and_invalidate_dcache_va_range.
> 
> I'll do that, thanks for the reminder.

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