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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ingo Molnar
2d4a71676f x86, mm: fault.c cleanup
Impact: cleanup, no code changed

Clean up various small details, which can be correctness checked
automatically:

 - tidy up the include file section
 - eliminate unnecessary includes
 - introduce show_signal_msg() to clean up code flow
 - standardize the code flow
 - standardize comments and other style details
 - more cleanups, pointed out by checkpatch

No code changed on either 32-bit nor 64-bit:

arch/x86/mm/fault.o:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   4632	     32	     24	   4688	   1250	fault.o.before
   4632	     32	     24	   4688	   1250	fault.o.after

the md5 changed due to a change in a single instruction:

   2e8a8241e7f0d69706776a5a26c90bc0  fault.o.before.asm
   c5c3d36e725586eb74f0e10692f0193e  fault.o.after.asm

Because a __LINE__ reference in a WARN_ONCE() has changed.

On 32-bit a few stack offsets changed - no code size difference
nor any functionality difference.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-21 00:09:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
c9e1585b1b Merge branch 'tip/x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into x86/mm 2009-02-20 18:51:43 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
3c3e5694ad x86: check PMD in spurious_fault handler
Impact: fix to prevent hard lockup on bad PMD permissions

If the PMD does not have the correct permissions for a page access,
but the PTE does, the spurious fault handler will mistake the fault
as a lazy TLB transaction. This will result in an infinite loop of:

 fault -> spurious_fault check (pass) -> return to code -> fault

This patch adds a check and a warn on if the PTE passes the permissions
but the PMD does not.

[ Updated: Ingo Molnar suggested using WARN_ONCE with some text ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-20 11:44:47 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
b233969eaa Merge branch 'x86/untangle2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen into x86/headers
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
	arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-13 13:09:00 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f268fe7333 Merge branch 'x86/mm' into x86/core 2009-02-13 09:47:24 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f8a6b2b9ce Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-13 09:44:22 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
9049a11de7 Merge commit 'remotes/tip/x86/paravirt' into x86/untangle2
* commit 'remotes/tip/x86/paravirt': (175 commits)
  xen: use direct ops on 64-bit
  xen: make direct versions of irq_enable/disable/save/restore to common code
  xen: setup percpu data pointers
  xen: fix 32-bit build resulting from mmu move
  x86/paravirt: return full 64-bit result
  x86, percpu: fix kexec with vmlinux
  x86/vmi: fix interrupt enable/disable/save/restore calling convention.
  x86/paravirt: don't restore second return reg
  xen: setup percpu data pointers
  x86: split loading percpu segments from loading gdt
  x86: pass in cpu number to switch_to_new_gdt()
  x86: UV fix uv_flush_send_and_wait()
  x86/paravirt: fix missing callee-save call on pud_val
  x86/paravirt: use callee-saved convention for pte_val/make_pte/etc
  x86/paravirt: implement PVOP_CALL macros for callee-save functions
  x86/paravirt: add register-saving thunks to reduce caller register pressure
  x86/paravirt: selectively save/restore regs around pvops calls
  x86: fix paravirt clobber in entry_64.S
  x86/pvops: add a paravirt_ident functions to allow special patching
  xen: move remaining mmu-related stuff into mmu.c
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-11 11:52:22 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
0464ac9ebd Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-06 14:42:54 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
9be260a646 prevent kprobes from catching spurious page faults
Prevent kprobes from catching spurious faults which will cause infinite
recursive page-fault and memory corruption by stack overflow.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 17:01:50 -08:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
0973a06cde x86: mm: introduce helper function in fault.c
Impact: cleanup

Introduce helper function fault_in_kernel_address() to make editors happy.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-04 16:16:55 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
010060741a x86: add might_sleep() to do_page_fault()
Impact: widen debug checks

VirtualBox calls do_page_fault() from an atomic context but runs into a
might_sleep() way pas this point, cure that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-29 16:03:34 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
74b6eb6b93 Merge branches 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpudetect', 'x86/debug', 'x86/doc', 'x86/header-fixes', 'x86/mm', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/pat', 'x86/setup-v2', 'x86/subarch', 'x86/uaccess' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-01-28 23:13:53 +01:00
Johannes Weiner
fb746d0e13 x86: optimise page fault entry, cleanup
tsk is already assigned to current, drop the redundant second
assignment.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21 21:36:54 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
198030782c Merge branch 'x86/mm' into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-01-21 10:39:51 +01:00
Nick Piggin
92181f190b x86: optimise x86's do_page_fault (C entry point for the page fault path)
Impact: cleanup, restructure code to improve assembly

gcc isn't _all_ that smart about spilling registers to stack or reusing
stack slots, even with branch annotations. do_page_fault contained a lot
of functionality, so split unlikely paths into their own functions, and
mark them as noinline just to be sure. I consider this actually to be
somewhat of a cleanup too: the main function now contains about half
the number of lines so the normal path is easier to read, while the error
cases are also nicely split away.

Also, ensure the order of arguments to functions is always the same: regs,
addr, error_code. This can reduce code size a tiny bit, and just looks neater
too.

And add a couple of branch annotations.

Before:
  do_page_fault:
          subq    $360, %rsp      #,

After:
  do_page_fault:
          subq    $56, %rsp       #,

bloat-o-meter:
  add/remove: 8/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 2222/-1680 (542)
  function                                     old     new   delta
  __bad_area_nosemaphore                         -     506    +506
  no_context                                     -     474    +474
  vmalloc_fault                                  -     424    +424
  spurious_fault                                 -     358    +358
  mm_fault_error                                 -     272    +272
  bad_area_access_error                          -      89     +89
  bad_area                                       -      89     +89
  bad_area_nosemaphore                           -      10     +10
  do_page_fault                               2464     784   -1680

Yes, the total size increases by 542 bytes, due to the extra function calls.
But these will very rarely be called (except for vmalloc_fault) in a normal
workload. Importantly, do_page_fault is less than 1/3rd it's original size,
and touches far less stack.

Existing gotos and branch hints did move a lot of the infrequently used text
out of the fastpath, but that's even further improved after this patch.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-20 13:14:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b2b062b816 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/system.h

Also, moved include/asm-x86/stackprotector.h to arch/x86/include/asm.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-18 18:37:14 +01:00
Andi Kleen
f313e12308 x86: avoid theoretical vmalloc fault loop
Ajith Kumar noticed:

 I was going through the vmalloc fault handling for x86_64 and am unclear
 about the following lines in the vmalloc_fault() function.

 pgd = pgd_offset(current->mm ?: &init_mm, address);
 pgd_ref = pgd_offset_k(address);

 Here the intention is to get the pgd corresponding to the current process
 and sync it up with the pgd in init_mm(obtained from pgd_offset_k).
 However, for kernel threads current->mm is NULL and hence pgd =
 pgd_offset(init_mm, address) = pgd_ref which means the fault handler
 returns without setting the pgd entry in the MM structure in the context
 of which the kernel thread has faulted.  This could lead to never-ending
 faults and busy looping of kernel threads like pdflush.  So, shouldn't the
 pgd = pgd_offset(current->mm ?: &init_mm, address); be pgd =
 pgd_offset(current->active_mm ?: &init_mm, address);

We can use active_mm unconditionally because it should be always set.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-12 19:24:21 +01:00
Nick Piggin
1c0fe6e3bd mm: invoke oom-killer from page fault
Rather than have the pagefault handler kill a process directly if it gets
a VM_FAULT_OOM, have it call into the OOM killer.

With increasingly sophisticated oom behaviour (cpusets, memory cgroups,
oom killing throttling, oom priority adjustment or selective disabling,
panic on oom, etc), it's silly to unconditionally kill the faulting
process at page fault time.  Create a hook for pagefault oom path to call
into instead.

Only converted x86 and uml so far.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __out_of_memory() static]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:58:58 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
a9de18eb76 Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h
	kernel/fork.c
2008-12-31 08:31:57 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b0f4b285d7 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
  sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
  tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
  Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
  ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
  ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
  ftrace: enable format arguments checking
  x86, bts: memory accounting
  x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
  ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
  tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
  tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
  tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
  trace: fix task state printout
  ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
  trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
  trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
  x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
  tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
  tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
  x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-28 12:21:10 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
be9c5ae4ee Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (246 commits)
  x86: traps.c replace #if CONFIG_X86_32 with #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
  x86: PAT: fix address types in track_pfn_vma_new()
  x86: prioritize the FPU traps for the error code
  x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes
  x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-generic
  x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_phys
  x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return value
  x86: PAT: clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() interface
  x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary declaration
  x86: common.c boot_cpu_stack and boot_exception_stacks should be static
  x86: fix intel x86_64 llc_shared_map/cpu_llc_id anomolies
  x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
  x86: ia32.h: remove unused struct sigfram32 and rt_sigframe32
  x86: asm-offset_64: use rt_sigframe_ia32
  x86: sigframe.h: include headers for dependency
  x86: traps.c declare functions before they get used
  x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes - v3
  x86: PAT: add pgprot_writecombine() interface for drivers - v3
  x86: PAT: change pgprot_noncached to uc_minus instead of strong uc - v3
  x86: PAT: implement track/untrack of pfnmap regions for x86 - v3
  ...
2008-12-28 12:07:57 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
dfdc5437bd Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7'; branch 'x86/dumpstack' into tracing/ftrace
Merge x86/dumpstack into tracing/ftrace because upcoming ftrace changes
depend on cleanups already in x86/dumpstack.

Also merge to latest upstream -rc.
2008-12-03 08:55:34 +01:00
David Howells
350b4da71f CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the x86 arch
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:38:40 +11:00
Pekka Paalanen
fd3fdf11d3 trace: add the MMIO-tracer to the tracer menu, cleanup
Impact: cleanup

We can remove MMIOTRACE_HOOKS and replace it with just MMIOTRACE.
MMIOTRACE_HOOKS is a remnant from the time when I thought that
something else could also use the kmmio facilities.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-27 14:07:26 +01:00
Alexander van Heukelum
874d93d118 x86, dumpstack: let signr=0 signal no do_exit
Change oops_end such that signr=0 signals that do_exit
is not to be called.

Currently, each use of __die is soon followed by a call
to oops_end and 'regs' is set to NULL if oops_end is expected
not to call do_exit. Change all such pairs to set signr=0
instead. On x86_64 oops_end is used 'bare' in die_nmi; use
signr=0 instead of regs=NULL there, too.

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22 14:00:23 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
0999d978dc Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: fix compat-vdso
  x86/mm: unify init task OOM handling
  x86/mm: do not trigger a kernel warning if user-space disables interrupts and generates a page fault
2008-10-16 15:08:45 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
b2aaf8f74c Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
	include/asm-x86/pda.h
2008-10-15 13:46:29 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3a1dfe6eef x86/mm: unify init task OOM handling
Linus noticed that the "again:" versus "survive:" OOM logic for
the init task was arbitrarily different.

The 64-bit codepath is the better one, because it correctly re-lookups
the vma after having dropped the ->mmap_sem.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 18:11:13 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
891cffbd6b x86/mm: do not trigger a kernel warning if user-space disables interrupts and generates a page fault
Arjan reported a spike in the following bug pattern in v2.6.27:

   http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=lock_page

which happens because hwclock started triggering warnings due to
a (correct) might_sleep() check in the MM code.

The warning occurs because hwclock uses this dubious sequence of
code to run "atomic" code:

  static unsigned long
  atomic(const char *name, unsigned long (*op)(unsigned long),
         unsigned long arg)
  {
    unsigned long v;
    __asm__ volatile ("cli");
    v = (*op)(arg);
    __asm__ volatile ("sti");
    return v;
  }

Then it pagefaults in that "atomic" section, triggering the warning.

There is no way the kernel could provide "atomicity" in this path,
a page fault is a cannot-continue machine event so the kernel has to
wait for the page to be filled in.

Even if it was just a minor fault we'd have to take locks and might have
to spend quite a bit of time with interrupts disabled - not nice to irq
latencies in general.

So instead just enable interrupts in the pagefault path unconditionally
if we come from user-space, and handle the fault.

Also, while touching this code, unify some trivial parts of the x86
VM paths at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-13 17:46:39 +02:00
Alexander van Heukelum
69c89b5bf7 traps: x86: remove trace_hardirqs_fixup from pagefault handler
The last use of trace_hardirqs_fixup is unnecessary, because the
trap is taken with interrupt off on i386 as well as x86_64, and
the irq-tracer is notified of this from the assembly code.

trace_hardirqs_fixup and trace_hardirqs_fixup_flags are removed
from include/asm-x86/irqflags.h as they are no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-13 10:22:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
365d46dc9b Merge branch 'linus' into x86/xen
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
	arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
2008-10-12 12:37:32 +02:00
Jan Beulich
cc643d4687 x86: adjust vmalloc_sync_all() for Xen (2nd try)
Since the fourth PDPT entry cannot be shared under Xen,
vmalloc_sync_all() must iterate over pmd-s rather than pgd-s here.
Luckily, the code isn't used for native PAE (SHARED_KERNEL_PMD is 1)
and the change is benign to non-PAE.

Also do a little more cleanup in that function.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
2008-09-06 19:48:01 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh
70ef56414e x86: mm/fault.c declare do_page_fault before they get used
declared do_page_fault() in asm-x86/trap.h for both X86_32 and X86_64

removed do_invalid_op declaration from mm/fault.c as it is already declared in asm-x86/trap.h

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
2008-07-23 17:36:37 +05:30
Ingo Molnar
5806b81ac1 Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
	arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
	arch/x86/lib/Makefile
	include/asm-x86/irqflags.h
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/sched.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-14 16:11:52 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
67350a5c45 x86: simplify vmalloc_sync_all
vmalloc_sync_all() is only called from register_die_notifier and
alloc_vm_area.  Neither is on any performance-critical paths, so
vmalloc_sync_all() itself is not on any hot paths.

Given that the optimisations in vmalloc_sync_all add a fair amount of
code and complexity, and are fairly hard to evaluate for correctness,
it's better to just remove them to simplify the code rather than worry
about its absolute performance.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:10:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
58cf35228f Merge branches 'x86/mmio', 'x86/delay', 'x86/idle', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/debug', 'x86/ptrace' and 'x86/amd-iommu' into x86/devel 2008-07-08 09:46:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d763d5edf9 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/mmiotrace 2008-07-07 08:07:35 +02:00
Gustavo Fernando Padovan
95c60b08c6 x86: remove unnecessary #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32...#else
Remove the #ifdef conditional because this comparison is already done in
user_mode_vm().

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-03 15:09:10 +02:00
Vegard Nossum
f294a8ce21 x86: small unifications of address printing
'man 3 printf' tells me that %p should be printed as if by %#x, but
this is not true for the kernel, which does not use the '0x' prefix
for the %p conversion specifier.

A small cast to (void *) is also prettier than #ifdef/#else/#endif.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-01 16:21:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5ce001b0e5 Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotector 2008-06-25 12:27:29 +02:00
Henry Nestler
b29c701dea x86: fix endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux 2.6
Page faults in kernel address space between PAGE_OFFSET up to
VMALLOC_START should not try to map as vmalloc.

Fix rarely endless page faults inside mount_block_root for root
filesystem at boot time.

All 32bit kernels up to 2.6.25 can fail into this hole.
I can not present this under native linux kernel. I see, that the 64bit
has fixed the problem. I copied the same lines into 32bit part.

Recorded debugs are from coLinux kernel 2.6.22.18 (virtualisation):
http://www.henrynestler.com/colinux/testing/pfn-check-0.7.3/20080410-antinx/bug16-recursive-page-fault-endless.txt
The physicaly memory was trimmed down to 192MB to better catch the bug.
More memory gets the bug more rarely.

Details, how every x86 32bit system can fail:

Start from "mount_block_root",
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/init/do_mounts.c#L297
There the variable "fs_names" got one memory page with 4096 bytes.
Variable "p" walks through the existing file system types. The first
string is no problem.
But, with the second loop in mount_block_root the offset of "p" is not
at beginning of page, the offset is for example +9, if "reiserfs" is the
first in list.
Than calls do_mount_root, and lands in sys_mount.
Remember: Variable "type_page" contains now "fs_type+9" and not contains
a full page.
The sys_mount copies 4096 bytes with function "exact_copy_from_user()":
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/fs/namespace.c#L1540

Mostly exist pages after the buffer "fs_names+4096+9" and the page fault
handler was not called. No problem.

In the case, if the page after "fs_names+4096" is not mapped, the page
fault handler was called from http://lxr.linux.no/linux/fs/namespace.c#L1320

The do_page_fault gots an address 0xc03b4000.
It's kernel address, address >= TASK_SIZE, but not from vmalloc! It's
from "__getname()" alias "kmem_cache_alloc".
The "error_code" is 0. "vmalloc_fault" will be call:
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c#L332

"vmalloc_fault" tryed to find the physical page for a non existing
virtual memory area. The macro "pte_present" in vmalloc_fault()
got a next page fault for 0xc0000ed0 at:
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c#L282

No PTE exist for such virtual address. The page fault handler was trying
to sync the physical page for the PTE lockup.

This called vmalloc_fault() again for address 0xc000000, and that also
was not existing. The endless began...

In normal case the cpu would still loop with disabled interrrupts. Under
coLinux this was catched by a stack overflow inside printk debugs.

Signed-off-by: Henry Nestler <henry.nestler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-12 21:26:07 +02:00
Eric Sandeen
7c9f8861e6 stackprotector: use canary at end of stack to indicate overruns at oops time
(Updated with a common max-stack-used checker that knows about
the canary, as suggested by Joe Perches)

Use a canary at the end of the stack to clearly indicate
at oops time whether the stack has ever overflowed.

This is a very simple implementation with a couple of
drawbacks:

1) a thread may legitimately use exactly up to the last
   word on the stack

 -- but the chances of doing this and then oopsing later seem slim

2) it's possible that the stack usage isn't dense enough
   that the canary location could get skipped over

 -- but the worst that happens is that we don't flag the overrun
 -- though this happens fairly often in my testing :(

With the code in place, an intentionally-bloated stack oops might
do:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8103f84cc680
IP: [<ffffffff810253df>] update_curr+0x9a/0xa8
PGD 8063 PUD 0
Thread overran stack or stack corrupted
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 0
...

... unless the stack overrun is so bad that it corrupts some other
thread.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-26 16:15:33 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
0fd0e3da45 x86: mmiotrace full patch, preview 1
kmmio.c handles the list of mmio probes with callbacks, list of traced
pages, and attaching into the page fault handler and die notifier. It
arms, traps and disarms the given pages, this is the core of mmiotrace.

mmio-mod.c is a user interface, hooking into ioremap functions and
registering the mmio probes. It also decodes the required information
from trapped mmio accesses via the pre and post callbacks in each probe.
Currently, hooking into ioremap functions works by redefining the symbols
of the target (binary) kernel module, so that it calls the traced
versions of the functions.

The most notable changes done since the last discussion are:
- kmmio.c is a built-in, not part of the module
- direct call from fault.c to kmmio.c, removing all dynamic hooks
- prepare for unregistering probes at any time
- make kmmio re-initializable and accessible to more than one user
- rewrite kmmio locking to remove all spinlocks from page fault path

Can I abuse call_rcu() like I do in kmmio.c:unregister_kmmio_probe()
or is there a better way?

The function called via call_rcu() itself calls call_rcu() again,
will this work or break? There I need a second grace period for RCU
after the first grace period for page faults.

Mmiotrace itself (mmio-mod.c) is still a module, I am going to attack
that next. At some point I will start looking into how to make mmiotrace
a tracer component of ftrace (thanks for the hint, Ingo). Ftrace should
make the user space part of mmiotracing as simple as
'cat /debug/trace/mmio > dump.txt'.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24 11:22:12 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
10c43d2eb5 x86: explicit call to mmiotrace in do_page_fault()
The custom page fault handler list is replaced with a single function
pointer. All related functions and variables are renamed for
mmiotrace.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: pq@iki.fi
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24 11:21:55 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
86069782d6 x86: add a list for custom page fault handlers.
Provides kernel modules a way to register custom page fault handlers.
On every page fault this will call a list of registered functions. The
functions may handle the fault and force do_page_fault() to return
immediately.

This functionality is similar to the now removed page fault notifiers.
Custom page fault handlers are used by debugging and reverse engineering
tools. Mmiotrace is one such tool and a patch to add it into the tree
will follow.

The custom page fault handlers are called earlier in do_page_fault()
than the page fault notifiers were.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 21:16:38 +02:00
gorcunov@gmail.com
6b6891f9c5 x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK
This patch renames VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK (which
in turn defined as alias to X86_EFLAGS_VM) to better
distinguish from virtual memory flags. We can't just
use X86_EFLAGS_VM instead because it is also used
for conditional compilation

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:33 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b4e0409a36 x86: check vmlinux limits, 64-bit
these build-time and link-time checks would have prevented the
vmlinux size regression.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:40:45 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3085354de6 x86: prefetch fix #2
Linus noticed a second bug and an uncleanliness:

 - we'd return on any instruction fetch fault

 - we'd use both the value of 16 and the PF_INSTR symbol which are
   the same and make no sense

the cleanup nicely unifies this piece of logic.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-27 22:00:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
bc713dcf35 x86: fix prefetch workaround
some early Athlon XP's and Opterons generate bogus faults on prefetch
instructions. The workaround for this regressed over .24 - reinstate it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-27 16:08:44 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
cae30f8270 x86: make dump_pagetable() static
dump_pagetable() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-14 23:30:19 +01:00