Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Use #ifdef for the __PAGETABLE_P?D_FOLDED defines

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Hi James,

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 3:25 PM James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/10/2018 13:37, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 3:55 PM James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> __is_defined(__PAGETABLE_P?D_FOLDED) doesn't quite work as intended
> >> as these symbols are internal to asm-generic and aren't defined in the
> >> way kconfig expects. This makes them always evaluate to false.
> >> Switch to #ifdef.
>
> > This is now e9ed821be48600ea ("arm64: mm: Use #ifdef for the
> > __PAGETABLE_P?D_FOLDED defines") in arm64/for-next/core.
> >
> > If CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y, it prints a few times during boot on
> > several R-Car Gen3 platforms:
>
> Aha, I didn't test this with debug-virtual ... and the new __pa() to setup the
> fixmap for swapper is what is causing this:
>
> From arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c:
> | void set_swapper_pgd(pgd_t *pgdp, pgd_t pgd)
> | {
> |       pgd_t *fixmap_pgdp;
> |
> |       spin_lock(&swapper_pgdir_lock);
> |       fixmap_pgdp = pgd_set_fixmap(__pa(pgdp));
> |       WRITE_ONCE(*fixmap_pgdp, pgd);
>
> This patch is just exposing the problem on your configuration, its commit
> 2330b7ca78350efcb ("arm64/mm: use fixmap to modify swapper_pg_dir") that missed
> this.
>
> We always know pgdp here will point within swapper_pg_dir, so I think its fair
> to switch this to the __pa_symbol() version. This fixes it for me:
> --------------------------%<--------------------------
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index 6f0e2edcc114..6deb836a102a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ void set_swapper_pgd(pgd_t *pgdp, pgd_t pgd)
>         pgd_t *fixmap_pgdp;
>
>         spin_lock(&swapper_pgdir_lock);
> -       fixmap_pgdp = pgd_set_fixmap(__pa(pgdp));
> +       fixmap_pgdp = pgd_set_fixmap(__pa_symbol(pgdp));
>         WRITE_ONCE(*fixmap_pgdp, pgd);
>         /*
>          * We need dsb(ishst) here to ensure the page-table-walker sees
> --------------------------%<--------------------------

Thanks!

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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