Re: tlb_batch_add_one()

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On 3/30/17 5:42 PM, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> On 3/30/17 4:59 PM, Nitin Gupta wrote:
>> On 3/30/17 2:54 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>> From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:25:53 -0700 (PDT)
>>>
>>>> From: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:47:11 -0700
>>>>
>>>>> I will be sending a fix for these call-sites today.
>>>>
>>>> I already have a fix I'm testing now which I'll check in after my
>>>> regression test passes.
>>>
>>> So even with the shifts fixed, as per the patch below, I'm still getting
>>> corruptions during gcc bootstraps.
>>>
>>> If I cannot figure out what the problem is by the end of the day I'm
>>> reverting the change.  I've already spend a week trying to figure out
>>> what introduced these regressions...
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c b/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c
>>> index afda3bb..ee8066c 100644
>>> --- a/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c
>>> +++ b/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c
>>> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static void tlb_batch_pmd_scan(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr,
>>>  		if (pte_val(*pte) & _PAGE_VALID) {
>>>  			bool exec = pte_exec(*pte);
>>>  
>>> -			tlb_batch_add_one(mm, vaddr, exec, false);
>>> +			tlb_batch_add_one(mm, vaddr, exec, PAGE_SHIFT);
>>>  		}
>>>  		pte++;
>>>  		vaddr += PAGE_SIZE;
>>> @@ -209,9 +209,9 @@ void set_pmd_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>>>  			pte_t orig_pte = __pte(pmd_val(orig));
>>>  			bool exec = pte_exec(orig_pte);
>>>  
>>> -			tlb_batch_add_one(mm, addr, exec, true);
>>> +			tlb_batch_add_one(mm, addr, exec, REAL_HPAGE_SHIFT);
>>>  			tlb_batch_add_one(mm, addr + REAL_HPAGE_SIZE, exec,
>>> -					true);
>>> +					  REAL_HPAGE_SHIFT);
>>
>>
>> Shifts are still wrong: tlb_batch_add_one -> flush_tsb_user_page expects
>> HPAGE_SHIFT to be passed for 8M pages so that 'HUGE' tsb is flushed
>> instead of the BASE one. So, we need to pass HPAGE_SHIFT here.
>>
>> Also, I see that sun4v_tte_to_shift() should return HPAGE_SHIFT for 4MB
>> case instead of REAL_HPAGE_SHIFT (same for sun4u version).
>>
>> And finally, huge_tte_to_shift() can have the size check removed after
>> fixing huge_tte_to_shift() as above.
>>
>> Currently my test machine is having some disk issues, so I will be back
>> with results once the machine is back up.
>>
> 
> Or more simply, the check in flush_tsb_user() and flush_tsb_user_page()
> can be fixed. Below is the full patch (including your changes):
> 
> The patch is untested and my test machine is still not ready, so would
> be testing it tonight/tomorrow.
> 
> 
> 

Tested with 'make -j64' for kernel: Without it, build fails at 'LD
vmlinux.o' step (internal error - probably due to memory corruption).
With patch, build succeeds.

Nitin

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