Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

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On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote:
Hi Greg,

These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which
are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10.

For ARM, when LPAE is triggered, 40-bit physical address is available,
translation table becomes 3-level, and every table entry is 64 bit
instead of 32. However, 3.10 does not well adapt to the change, So
comes this series of patches.

There are 12 patches, 9 of which can be cherry-picked cleanly, the
rest needs to be adjusted. Patch information as follows:

PART 1: patches that can be cleanly applied:

dde1b65 ARM: mm: correct pte_same behaviour for LPAE.
926edcc ARM: LPAE: use signed arithmetic for mask definitions
20d6956 ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t in alloc_init_pud()
5b20c5b ARM: fix type of PHYS_PFN_OFFSET to unsigned long
e38a517 ARM: lpae: fix definition of PTE_HWTABLE_PTRS
237f123 ARM: 7866/1: include: asm: use 'long long' instead of
         'u64' within atomic.h
4dcc1cf ARM: 7867/1: include: asm: use 'int' instead of
         'unsigned long' for 'oldval' in atomic_cmpxchg().
efea340 ARM: 7931/1: Correct virt_addr_valid
6b07699 ARM: DMA: ensure that old section mappings are flushed
         from the TLB

PART 2: patches that should be adjusted:

b713aa0 ARM: fix asm/memory.h build error
f295070 ARM: 8108/1: mm: Introduce {pte,pmd}_isset and
         {pte,pmd}_isclear
ded9477 ARM: 8109/1: mm: Modify pte_write and pmd_write
         logic for LPAE

Thanks!


  arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h               | 52 +++++++++++++++--------------
  arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h               | 36 ++++++++++----------
  arch/arm/include/asm/page.h                 |  2 +-
  arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level-hwdef.h |  1 +
  arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h       | 31 +++++++++++++----
  arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h              | 14 +++++---
  arch/arm/kernel/head.S                      |  2 +-
  arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c                   | 11 +++++-
  arch/arm/mm/mmu.c                           |  3 +-
  arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S                |  9 +++--
  10 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

hi, Greg, these patches are important fixes to LPAE, I posted them half a month ago, but haven't received your reply. Would you please have a review of them to make sure if it make sense to merge them into 3.10 stable?
Looking forward to you apply.

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