> On Nov 9, 2018, at 4:05 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Commit f77084d96355 "x86/mm/pat: Disable preemption around
> __flush_tlb_all()" addressed a case where __flush_tlb_all() is called
> without preemption being disabled. It also left a warning to catch other
> cases where preemption is not disabled. That warning triggers for the
> memory hotplug path which is also used for persistent memory enabling:
I don’t think I agree with the patch. If you call __flush_tlb_all() in a
context where you might be *migrated*, then there’s a bug. We could change the
code to allow this particular use by checking that we haven’t done SMP init
yet, perhaps.
>
> WARNING: CPU: 35 PID: 911 at ./arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h:460
> RIP: 0010:__flush_tlb_all+0x1b/0x3a
> [..]
> Call Trace:
> phys_pud_init+0x29c/0x2bb
> kernel_physical_mapping_init+0xfc/0x219
> init_memory_mapping+0x1a5/0x3b0
> arch_add_memory+0x2c/0x50
> devm_memremap_pages+0x3aa/0x610
> pmem_attach_disk+0x585/0x700 [nd_pmem]
>
> Rather than audit all __flush_tlb_all() callers to add preemption, just
> do it internally to __flush_tlb_all().
>
> Fixes: f77084d96355 ("x86/mm/pat: Disable preemption around
> __flush_tlb_all()")
> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
> Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 8 ++++----
> arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 6 +-----
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
> index d760611cfc35..049e0aca0fb5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
> @@ -454,11 +454,10 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_one_user(unsigned
> long addr)
> static inline void __flush_tlb_all(void)
> {
> /*
> - * This is to catch users with enabled preemption and the PGE feature
> - * and don't trigger the warning in __native_flush_tlb().
> + * Preemption needs to be disabled around __flush_tlb* calls
> + * due to CR3 reload in __native_flush_tlb().
> */
> - VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(preemptible());
> -
> + preempt_disable();
> if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE)) {
> __flush_tlb_global();
> } else {
> @@ -467,6 +466,7 @@ static inline void __flush_tlb_all(void)
> */
> __flush_tlb();
> }
> + preempt_enable();
> }
>
> /*
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
> index db7a10082238..f799076e3d57 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
> @@ -2309,13 +2309,9 @@ void __kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int
> numpages, int enable)
>
> /*
> * We should perform an IPI and flush all tlbs,
> - * but that can deadlock->flush only current cpu.
> - * Preemption needs to be disabled around __flush_tlb_all() due to
> - * CR3 reload in __native_flush_tlb().
> + * but that can deadlock->flush only current cpu:
> */
> - preempt_disable();
> __flush_tlb_all();
> - preempt_enable();
>
> arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode();
> }
>
