On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 02:59:32AM +0000, Williams, Dan J wrote: > On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 15:43 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > On 11/19/18 3:19 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > > > Andy wondered why a path that can sleep was using __flush_tlb_all() > > > [1] > > > and Dave confirmed the expectation for TLB flush is for modifying / > > > invalidating existing pte entries, but not initial population [2]. > > > > I _think_ this is OK. > > > > But, could we sprinkle a few WARN_ON_ONCE(p*_present()) calls in > > there > > to help us sleep at night? > > Well, I'm having nightmares now because my naive patch to sprinkle some > WARN_ON_ONCE() calls is leading to my VM live locking at boot... no > backtrace. If I revert the patch below and just go with the > __flush_tlb_all() removal it seems fine. > > I'm going to set this aside for a bit, but if anyone has any thoughts > in the meantime I'd appreciate it. Have you tried using early_printk ? So kernel_physical_mapping_init() has a comment that states the virtual and physical addresses we create mappings for should be PMD aligned, which implies pud/p4d could have overlap between the mappings. But in that case, I would expect the new and old values to match. So maybe you should be checking something like: WARN_ON_ONCE(pud_present(*pud) && !pud_same(pud, new)); > @@ -573,6 +578,7 @@ phys_pud_init(pud_t *pud_page, unsigned long paddr, unsigned long paddr_end, > E820_TYPE_RAM) && > !e820__mapped_any(paddr & PUD_MASK, paddr_next, > E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN)) > + WARN_ON_ONCE(pud_present(*pud)); > set_pud(pud, __pud(0)); > continue; > } > @@ -610,6 +616,7 @@ phys_pud_init(pud_t *pud_page, unsigned long paddr, unsigned long paddr_end, > if (page_size_mask & (1<<PG_LEVEL_1G)) { > pages++; > spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); > + WARN_ON_ONCE(pud_present(*pud)); > set_pte((pte_t *)pud, > pfn_pte((paddr & PUD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT, > PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE)); > @@ -623,6 +630,7 @@ phys_pud_init(pud_t *pud_page, unsigned long paddr, unsigned long paddr_end, > page_size_mask, prot); > > spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); > + WARN_ON_ONCE(pud_present(*pud)); > pud_populate(&init_mm, pud, pmd); > spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); > } > @@ -657,6 +665,7 @@ phys_p4d_init(p4d_t *p4d_page, unsigned long paddr, unsigned long paddr_end, > E820_TYPE_RAM) && > !e820__mapped_any(paddr & P4D_MASK, paddr_next, > E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN)) > + WARN_ON_ONCE(p4d_present(*p4d)); > set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(0)); > continue; > } > @@ -674,6 +683,7 @@ phys_p4d_init(p4d_t *p4d_page, unsigned long paddr, unsigned long paddr_end, > page_size_mask); > > spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); > + WARN_ON_ONCE(p4d_present(*p4d)); > p4d_populate(&init_mm, p4d, pud); > spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); > }