Re: [PATCH v1 01/11] arm/pgtable: define PFN_PTE_SHIFT on arm and arm64

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On 23.01.24 11:34, Ryan Roberts wrote:
On 22/01/2024 19:41, David Hildenbrand wrote:
We want to make use of pte_next_pfn() outside of set_ptes(). Let's
simpliy define PFN_PTE_SHIFT, required by pte_next_pfn().

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h   | 2 ++
  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 ++
  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
index d657b84b6bf70..be91e376df79e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -209,6 +209,8 @@ static inline void __sync_icache_dcache(pte_t pteval)
  extern void __sync_icache_dcache(pte_t pteval);
  #endif
+#define PFN_PTE_SHIFT PAGE_SHIFT
+
  void set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
  		      pte_t *ptep, pte_t pteval, unsigned int nr);
  #define set_ptes set_ptes
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 79ce70fbb751c..d4b3bd96e3304 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -341,6 +341,8 @@ static inline void __sync_cache_and_tags(pte_t pte, unsigned int nr_pages)
  		mte_sync_tags(pte, nr_pages);
  }
+#define PFN_PTE_SHIFT PAGE_SHIFT

I think this is buggy. And so is the arm64 implementation of set_ptes(). It
works fine for 48-bit output address, but for 52-bit OAs, the high bits are not
kept contigously, so if you happen to be setting a mapping for which the
physical memory block straddles bit 48, this won't work.

Right, as soon as the PTE bits are not contiguous, this stops working, just like set_ptes() would, which I used as orientation.


Today, only the 64K base page config can support 52 bits, and for this,
OA[51:48] are stored in PTE[15:12]. But 52 bits for 4K and 16K base pages is
coming (hopefully v6.9) and in this case OA[51:50] are stored in PTE[9:8].
Fortunately we already have helpers in arm64 to abstract this.

So I think arm64 will want to define its own pte_next_pfn():

#define pte_next_pfn pte_next_pfn
static inline pte_t pte_next_pfn(pte_t pte)
{
	return pfn_pte(pte_pfn(pte) + 1, pte_pgprot(pte));
}

I'll do a separate patch to fix the already broken arm64 set_ptes() implementation.

Make sense.


I'm not sure if this type of problem might also apply to other arches?

I saw similar handling in the PPC implementation of set_ptes, but was not able to convince me that it is actually required there.

pte_pfn on ppc does:

static inline unsigned long pte_pfn(pte_t pte)
{
	return (pte_val(pte) & PTE_RPN_MASK) >> PTE_RPN_SHIFT;
}

But that means that the PFNs *are* contiguous. If high bits are used for something else, then we might produce a garbage PTE on overflow, but that shouldn't really matter I concluded for folio_pte_batch() purposes, we'd not detect "belongs to this folio batch" either way.

Maybe it's likely cleaner to also have a custom pte_next_pfn() on ppc, I just hope that we don't lose any other arbitrary PTE bits by doing the pte_pgprot().


I guess pte_pfn() implementations should tell us if anything special needs to happen.

--
Cheers,

David / dhildenb





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