Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> writes: > The powerpc kernel can be built to have either a 4K PAGE_SIZE or a 64K > PAGE_SIZE. > > However when built with a 4K PAGE_SIZE there is an additional config > option which can be enabled, PPC_HAS_HASH_64K, which means the kernel > also knows how to hash a 64K page even though the base PAGE_SIZE is 4K. > > This is used in one obscure configuration, to support 64K pages for SPU > local store on the Cell processor when the rest of the kernel is using > 4K pages. > > In this configuration, pte_pagesize_index() is defined to just pass > through its arguments to get_slice_psize(). However pte_pagesize_index() > is called for both user and kernel addresses, whereas get_slice_psize() > only knows how to handle user addresses. > > This has been broken forever, however until recently it happened to > work. That was because in get_slice_psize() the large kernel address > would cause the right shift of the slice mask to return zero. > > However in commit 7aa0727f3302 "powerpc/mm: Increase the slice range to > 64TB", the get_slice_psize() code was changed so that instead of a right > shift we do an array lookup based on the address. When passed a kernel > address this means we index way off the end of the slice array and > return random junk. > > That is only fatal if we happen to hit something non-zero, but when we > do return a non-zero value we confuse the MMU code and eventually cause > a check stop. > > This fix is ugly, but simple. When we're called for a kernel address we > return 4K, which is always correct in this configuration, otherwise we > use the slice mask. > > Fixes: 7aa0727f3302 ("powerpc/mm: Increase the slice range to 64TB") > Reported-by: Cyril Bur <cyril...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > --- > arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h | 14 +++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h > index 3bb7488bd24b..7ee2300ee392 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h > @@ -135,7 +135,19 @@ > #define pte_iterate_hashed_end() } while(0) > > #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_HAS_HASH_64K > -#define pte_pagesize_index(mm, addr, pte) get_slice_psize(mm, addr) > +/* > + * We expect this to be called only for user addresses or kernel virtual > + * addresses other than the linear mapping. > + */ > +#define pte_pagesize_index(mm, addr, pte) \ > + ({ \ > + unsigned int psize; \ > + if (is_kernel_addr(addr)) \ > + psize = MMU_PAGE_4K; \ > + else \ > + psize = get_slice_psize(mm, addr); \ > + psize; \ > + }) > #else > #define pte_pagesize_index(mm, addr, pte) MMU_PAGE_4K > #endif > -- > 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev