Patch "sparc64: new context wrap" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sparc64: new context wrap

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     sparc64-new-context-wrap.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Jun  8 09:20:28 CEST 2017
From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 11:25:24 -0400
Subject: sparc64: new context wrap

From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit a0582f26ec9dfd5360ea2f35dd9a1b026f8adda0 ]

The current wrap implementation has a race issue: it is called outside of
the ctx_alloc_lock, and also does not wait for all CPUs to complete the
wrap.  This means that a thread can get a new context with a new version
and another thread might still be running with the same context. The
problem is especially severe on CPUs with shared TLBs, like sun4v. I used
the following test to very quickly reproduce the problem:
- start over 8K processes (must be more than context IDs)
- write and read values at a  memory location in every process.

Very quickly memory corruptions start happening, and what we read back
does not equal what we wrote.

Several approaches were explored before settling on this one:

Approach 1:
Move smp_new_mmu_context_version() inside ctx_alloc_lock, and wait for
every process to complete the wrap. (Note: every CPU must WAIT before
leaving smp_new_mmu_context_version_client() until every one arrives).

This approach ends up with deadlocks, as some threads own locks which other
threads are waiting for, and they never receive softint until these threads
exit smp_new_mmu_context_version_client(). Since we do not allow the exit,
deadlock happens.

Approach 2:
Handle wrap right during mondo interrupt. Use etrap/rtrap to enter into
into C code, and issue new versions to every CPU.
This approach adds some overhead to runtime: in switch_mm() we must add
some checks to make sure that versions have not changed due to wrap while
we were loading the new secondary context. (could be protected by PSTATE_IE
but that degrades performance as on M7 and older CPUs as it takes 50 cycles
for each access). Also, we still need a global per-cpu array of MMs to know
where we need to load new contexts, otherwise we can change context to a
thread that is going way (if we received mondo between switch_mm() and
switch_to() time). Finally, there are some issues with window registers in
rtrap() when context IDs are changed during CPU mondo time.

The approach in this patch is the simplest and has almost no impact on
runtime.  We use the array with mm's where last secondary contexts were
loaded onto CPUs and bump their versions to the new generation without
changing context IDs. If a new process comes in to get a context ID, it
will go through get_new_mmu_context() because of version mismatch. But the
running processes do not need to be interrupted. And wrap is quicker as we
do not need to xcall and wait for everyone to receive and complete wrap.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c |   81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -662,6 +662,53 @@ unsigned long tlb_context_cache = CTX_FI
 DECLARE_BITMAP(mmu_context_bmap, MAX_CTX_NR);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mm_struct *, per_cpu_secondary_mm) = {0};
 
+static void mmu_context_wrap(void)
+{
+	unsigned long old_ver = tlb_context_cache & CTX_VERSION_MASK;
+	unsigned long new_ver, new_ctx, old_ctx;
+	struct mm_struct *mm;
+	int cpu;
+
+	bitmap_zero(mmu_context_bmap, 1 << CTX_NR_BITS);
+
+	/* Reserve kernel context */
+	set_bit(0, mmu_context_bmap);
+
+	new_ver = (tlb_context_cache & CTX_VERSION_MASK) + CTX_FIRST_VERSION;
+	if (unlikely(new_ver == 0))
+		new_ver = CTX_FIRST_VERSION;
+	tlb_context_cache = new_ver;
+
+	/*
+	 * Make sure that any new mm that are added into per_cpu_secondary_mm,
+	 * are going to go through get_new_mmu_context() path.
+	 */
+	mb();
+
+	/*
+	 * Updated versions to current on those CPUs that had valid secondary
+	 * contexts
+	 */
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		/*
+		 * If a new mm is stored after we took this mm from the array,
+		 * it will go into get_new_mmu_context() path, because we
+		 * already bumped the version in tlb_context_cache.
+		 */
+		mm = per_cpu(per_cpu_secondary_mm, cpu);
+
+		if (unlikely(!mm || mm == &init_mm))
+			continue;
+
+		old_ctx = mm->context.sparc64_ctx_val;
+		if (likely((old_ctx & CTX_VERSION_MASK) == old_ver)) {
+			new_ctx = (old_ctx & ~CTX_VERSION_MASK) | new_ver;
+			set_bit(new_ctx & CTX_NR_MASK, mmu_context_bmap);
+			mm->context.sparc64_ctx_val = new_ctx;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 /* Caller does TLB context flushing on local CPU if necessary.
  * The caller also ensures that CTX_VALID(mm->context) is false.
  *
@@ -676,50 +723,30 @@ void get_new_mmu_context(struct mm_struc
 {
 	unsigned long ctx, new_ctx;
 	unsigned long orig_pgsz_bits;
-	int new_version;
 
 	spin_lock(&ctx_alloc_lock);
+retry:
+	/* wrap might have happened, test again if our context became valid */
+	if (unlikely(CTX_VALID(mm->context)))
+		goto out;
 	orig_pgsz_bits = (mm->context.sparc64_ctx_val & CTX_PGSZ_MASK);
 	ctx = (tlb_context_cache + 1) & CTX_NR_MASK;
 	new_ctx = find_next_zero_bit(mmu_context_bmap, 1 << CTX_NR_BITS, ctx);
-	new_version = 0;
 	if (new_ctx >= (1 << CTX_NR_BITS)) {
 		new_ctx = find_next_zero_bit(mmu_context_bmap, ctx, 1);
 		if (new_ctx >= ctx) {
-			int i;
-			new_ctx = (tlb_context_cache & CTX_VERSION_MASK) +
-				CTX_FIRST_VERSION + 1;
-			if (new_ctx == 1)
-				new_ctx = CTX_FIRST_VERSION + 1;
-
-			/* Don't call memset, for 16 entries that's just
-			 * plain silly...
-			 */
-			mmu_context_bmap[0] = 3;
-			mmu_context_bmap[1] = 0;
-			mmu_context_bmap[2] = 0;
-			mmu_context_bmap[3] = 0;
-			for (i = 4; i < CTX_BMAP_SLOTS; i += 4) {
-				mmu_context_bmap[i + 0] = 0;
-				mmu_context_bmap[i + 1] = 0;
-				mmu_context_bmap[i + 2] = 0;
-				mmu_context_bmap[i + 3] = 0;
-			}
-			new_version = 1;
-			goto out;
+			mmu_context_wrap();
+			goto retry;
 		}
 	}
 	if (mm->context.sparc64_ctx_val)
 		cpumask_clear(mm_cpumask(mm));
 	mmu_context_bmap[new_ctx>>6] |= (1UL << (new_ctx & 63));
 	new_ctx |= (tlb_context_cache & CTX_VERSION_MASK);
-out:
 	tlb_context_cache = new_ctx;
 	mm->context.sparc64_ctx_val = new_ctx | orig_pgsz_bits;
+out:
 	spin_unlock(&ctx_alloc_lock);
-
-	if (unlikely(new_version))
-		smp_new_mmu_context_version();
 }
 
 static int numa_enabled = 1;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-4.4/sparc64-new-context-wrap.patch
queue-4.4/sparc64-combine-activate_mm-and-switch_mm.patch
queue-4.4/sparc64-add-per-cpu-mm-of-secondary-contexts.patch
queue-4.4/sparc64-reset-mm-cpumask-after-wrap.patch
queue-4.4/sparc64-redefine-first-version.patch
queue-4.4/sparc64-delete-old-wrap-code.patch



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