Re: [PATCH v13 4/5] arm64: support copy_mc_[user]_highpage()

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在 2025/2/15 1:24, Catalin Marinas 写道:
On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 10:49:01AM +0800, Tong Tiangen wrote:
在 2025/2/13 1:11, Catalin Marinas 写道:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 10:42:56AM +0800, Tong Tiangen wrote:
Currently, many scenarios that can tolerate memory errors when copying page
have been supported in the kernel[1~5], all of which are implemented by
copy_mc_[user]_highpage(). arm64 should also support this mechanism.

Due to mte, arm64 needs to have its own copy_mc_[user]_highpage()
architecture implementation, macros __HAVE_ARCH_COPY_MC_HIGHPAGE and
__HAVE_ARCH_COPY_MC_USER_HIGHPAGE have been added to control it.

Add new helper copy_mc_page() which provide a page copy implementation with
hardware memory error safe. The code logic of copy_mc_page() is the same as
copy_page(), the main difference is that the ldp insn of copy_mc_page()
contains the fixup type EX_TYPE_KACCESS_ERR_ZERO_MEM_ERR, therefore, the
main logic is extracted to copy_page_template.S. In addition, the fixup of
MOPS insn is not considered at present.

Could we not add the exception table entry permanently but ignore the
exception table entry if it's not on the do_sea() path? That would save
some code duplication.

I'm sorry, I didn't catch your point, that the do_sea() and non do_sea()
paths use different exception tables?

No, they would have the same exception table, only that we'd interpret
it differently depending on whether it's a SEA error or not. Or rather
ignore the exception table altogether for non-SEA errors.

You mean to use the same exception type (EX_TYPE_KACCESS_ERR_ZERO) and
then do different processing on SEA errors and non-SEA errors, right?

If so, some instructions of copy_page() did not add to the exception
table will be added to the exception table, and the original logic will
be affected.

For example, if an instruction is not added to the exception table, the
instruction will panic when it triggers a non-SEA error. If this
instruction is added to the exception table because of SEA processing,
and then a non-SEA error is triggered, should we fix it?

Thanks,
Tong.


My understanding is that the
exception table entry problem is fine. After all, the search is
performed only after a fault trigger. Code duplication can be solved by
extracting repeated logic to a public file.

If the new exception table entries are only taken into account for SEA
errors, why do we need a duplicate copy_mc_page() function generated?
Isn't the copy_page() and copy_mc_page() code identical (except for the
additional labels to jump to for the exception)?





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