Impact: fix false positive PAT warnings - also fix VirtalBox hang
Use of vma->vm_pgoff to identify the pfnmaps that are fully
mapped at mmap time is broken. vm_pgoff is set by generic mmap
code even for cases where drivers are setting up the mappings
at the fault time.
The problem was originally reported here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123383810628583&w=2
Change is_linear_pfn_mapping logic to overload VM_INSERTPAGE
flag along with VM_PFNMAP to mean full PFNMAP setup at mmap
time.
Problem also tracked at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12800
Reported-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha>@intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "ebiederm@xmission.com" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # only for 2.6.29.1, not .28
LKML-Reference: <20090313004527.GA7176@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a function to check and keep identity maps in sync, when changing
any memory type. One of the follow on patches will also use this
routine.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Jeff Mahoney reported:
> With Suse's hwinfo tool, on -tip:
> WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/pat.c:637 reserve_pfn_range+0x5b/0x26d()
reserve_pfn_range() is not tracking the memory range below 1MB
as non-RAM and as such is inconsistent with similar checks in
reserve_memtype() and free_memtype()
Rename the pagerange_is_ram() to pat_pagerange_is_ram() and add the
"track legacy 1MB region as non RAM" condition.
And also, fix reserve_pfn_range() to return -EINVAL, when the pfn
range is RAM. This is to be consistent with this API design.
Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (29 commits)
xen: unitialised return value in xenbus_write_transaction
x86: fix section mismatch warning
x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs, fix
x86: work around PAGE_KERNEL_WC not getting WC in iomap_atomic_prot_pfn.
x86: use standard PIT frequency
xen: handle highmem pages correctly when shrinking a domain
x86, mm: fix pte_free()
xen: actually release memory when shrinking domain
x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs
x86: add MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE bits to <asm/msr-index.h>
x86: fix PTE corruption issue while mapping RAM using /dev/mem
x86: mtrr fix debug boot parameter
x86: fix page attribute corruption with cpa()
Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()"
x86: use early clobbers in usercopy*.c
x86: remove kernel_physical_mapping_init() from init section
fix: crash: IP: __bitmap_intersects+0x48/0x73
cpufreq: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for drv_read and drv_write
work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue.
work_on_cpu: don't try to get_online_cpus() in work_on_cpu.
...
Impact: Cleanup
When PAT was originally introduced, it was handled specially for a few
reasons:
- PAT bugs are hard to track down, so we wanted to maintain a
whitelist of CPUs.
- The i386 and x86-64 CPUID code was not yet unified.
Both of these are now obsolete, so handle PAT like any other features,
including ordinary feature blacklisting due to known bugs.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Beschorner Daniel reported:
> hwinfo problem since 2.6.28, showing this in the oops:
> Corrupted page table at address 7fd04de3ec00
Also, PaX Team reported a regression with this commit:
> commit 9542ada803
> Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
> Date: Wed Sep 24 08:53:33 2008 -0700
>
> x86: track memtype for RAM in page struct
This commit breaks mapping any RAM page through /dev/mem, as the
reserve_memtype() was not initializing the return attribute type and as such
corrupting the PTE entry that was setup with the return attribute type.
Because of this bug, application mapping this RAM page through /dev/mem
will die with "Corrupted page table at address xxxx" message in the kernel
log and also the kernel identity mapping which maps the underlying RAM
page gets converted to UC.
Fix this by initializing the return attribute type before calling
reserve_ram_pages_type()
Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Reported-and-tested-by: Beschorner Daniel <Daniel.Beschorner@facton.com>
Tested-and-Acked-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This reverts commit 58dab916df, which
makes my Nehalem come to a nasty crawling almost-halt. It looks like it
turns off caching of regular kernel RAM, with the understandable
slowdown of a few orders of magnitude as a result.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thierry Vignaud reported:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12372
>
> On P4 with an SiS motherboard (video card is a SiS 651)
> X server fails to start with error:
> xf86MapVidMem: Could not mmap framebuffer (0x00000000,0x2000) (Invalid
> argument)
Here X is trying to map first 8KB of memory using /dev/mem. Existing
code treats first 0-4KB of memory as non-RAM and 4KB-8KB as RAM. Recent
code changes don't allow to map memory with different attributes
at the same time.
Fix this by treating the first 1MB legacy region as special and always
track the attribute requests with in this region using linear linked
list (and don't bother if the range is RAM or non-RAM or mixed)
Reported-and-tested-by: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: reduce scope of debug check - avoid warnings
The logic to find whether identity map exists or not using
high_memory or max_low_pfn_mapped/max_pfn_mapped are not complete
as the memory withing the range may not be mapped if there is a
unusable hole in e820.
Specifically, on my test system I started seeing these warnings with
tools like hwinfo, acpidump trying to map ACPI region.
[ 27.400018] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 27.400344] WARNING: at /home/venkip/src/linus/linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c:560 __change_page_attr_set_clr+0xf3/0x8b8()
[ 27.400821] Hardware name: X7DB8
[ 27.401070] CPA: called for zero pte. vaddr = ffff8800cff6a000 cpa->vaddr = ffff8800cff6a000
[ 27.401569] Modules linked in:
[ 27.401882] Pid: 4913, comm: dmidecode Not tainted 2.6.28-05716-gfe0bdec #586
[ 27.402141] Call Trace:
[ 27.402488] [<ffffffff80237c21>] warn_slowpath+0xd3/0x10f
[ 27.402749] [<ffffffff80274ade>] ? find_get_page+0xb3/0xc9
[ 27.403028] [<ffffffff80274a2b>] ? find_get_page+0x0/0xc9
[ 27.403333] [<ffffffff80226425>] __change_page_attr_set_clr+0xf3/0x8b8
[ 27.403628] [<ffffffff8028ec99>] ? __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x192/0x1a1
[ 27.403883] [<ffffffff8028eb52>] ? __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x4b/0x1a1
[ 27.404172] [<ffffffff80290268>] ? vm_unmap_aliases+0x1ab/0x1bb
[ 27.404512] [<ffffffff80290105>] ? vm_unmap_aliases+0x48/0x1bb
[ 27.404766] [<ffffffff80226d28>] change_page_attr_set_clr+0x13e/0x2e6
[ 27.405026] [<ffffffff80698fa7>] ? _spin_unlock+0x26/0x2a
[ 27.405292] [<ffffffff80227e6a>] ? reserve_memtype+0x19b/0x4e3
[ 27.405590] [<ffffffff80226ffd>] _set_memory_wb+0x22/0x24
[ 27.405844] [<ffffffff80225d28>] ioremap_change_attr+0x26/0x28
[ 27.406097] [<ffffffff80228355>] reserve_pfn_range+0x1a3/0x235
[ 27.406427] [<ffffffff80228430>] track_pfn_vma_new+0x49/0xb3
[ 27.406686] [<ffffffff80286c46>] remap_pfn_range+0x94/0x32c
[ 27.406940] [<ffffffff8022878d>] ? phys_mem_access_prot_allowed+0xb5/0x1a8
[ 27.407209] [<ffffffff803e9bf4>] mmap_mem+0x75/0x9d
[ 27.407523] [<ffffffff8028b3b4>] mmap_region+0x2cf/0x53e
[ 27.407776] [<ffffffff8028b8cc>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x2a9/0x30d
[ 27.408034] [<ffffffff8020f4a4>] sys_mmap+0x92/0xce
[ 27.408339] [<ffffffff8020b65b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 27.408614] ---[ end trace 4b16ad70c09a602d ]---
[ 27.408871] dmidecode:4913 reserve_pfn_range ioremap_change_attr failed write-back for cff6a000-cff6b000
This is wih track_pfn_vma_new trying to keep identity map in sync.
The address cff6a000 is the ACPI region according to e820.
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009c000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009c000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000cc000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cff60000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cff60000 - 00000000cff69000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cff69000 - 00000000cff80000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cff80000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000230000000 (usable)
And is not mapped as per init_memory_mapping.
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-00000000cff60000
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000100000000-0000000230000000
We can add logic to check for this. But, there can also be other holes in
identity map when we have 1GB of aligned reserved space in e820.
This patch handles it by removing the WARN_ON and returning a specific
error value (EFAULT) to indicate that the address does not have any
identity mapping.
The code that tries to keep identity map in sync can ignore
this error, with other callers of cpa still getting error here.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: avoid warning message, potentially solve 3D performance regression
Change x86 PAT code to return compatible memtype if the exact memtype that
was requested in remap_pfn_rage and friends is not available due to some
conflict.
This is done by returning the compatible type in pgprot parameter of
track_pfn_vma_new(), and the caller uses that memtype for page table.
Note that track_pfn_vma_copy() which is basically called during fork gets the
prot from existing page table and should not have any conflict. Hence we use
strict memtype check there and do not allow compatible memtypes.
This patch fixes the bug reported here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123108883716357&w=2
Specifically the error message:
X:5010 map pfn expected mapping type write-back for d0000000-d0101000,
got write-combining
Should go away.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Change the protection parameter for track_pfn_vma_new() into a pgprot_t pointer.
Subsequent patch changes the x86 PAT handling to return a compatible
memtype in pgprot_t, if what was requested cannot be allowed due to conflicts.
No fuctionality change in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, fix warning
This warning:
arch/x86/mm/pat.c: In function track_pfn_vma_copy:
arch/x86/mm/pat.c:701: warning: passing argument 5 of follow_phys from incompatible pointer type
Triggers because physical addresses are resource_size_t, not u64.
This really matters when calling an interface like follow_phys() which
takes a pointer to a physical address -- although on x86, being
littleendian, it would generally work anyway as long as the memory region
wasn't completely uninitialized.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Cleanup - removes a new function in favor of a recently modified older one.
Replace follow_pfnmap_pte in pat code with follow_phys. follow_phys lso
returns protection eliminating the need of pte_pgprot call. Using follow_phys
also eliminates the need for pte_pa.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: New mm functionality.
Add pgprot_writecombine. pgprot_writecombine will be aliased to
pgprot_noncached when not supported by the architecture.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: New mm functionality.
Hookup remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn and corresponding copy and free
routines with reserve and free tracking.
reserve and free here only takes care of non RAM region mapping. For RAM
region, driver should use set_memory_[uc|wc|wb] to set the cache type and
then setup the mapping for user pte. We can bypass below
reserve/free in that case.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: allow /dev/mem mmaps on non-PAT CPUs/platforms
Fix mmap to /dev/mem when CONFIG_X86_PAT is off and CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is
off
mmap to /dev/mem on kernel memory has been failing since the
introduction of PAT (CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=n case). Seems like
the check to avoid cache aliasing with PAT is kicking in even
when PAT is disabled. The bug seems to have crept in 2.6.26.
This patch makes sure that the mmap to regular
kernel memory succeeds if CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=n and
PAT is disabled, and the checks to avoid cache aliasing
still happens if PAT is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Tested-by: Tim Sirianni <tim@scalemp.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Track the memtype for RAM pages in page struct instead of using the
memtype list. This avoids the explosion in the number of entries in
memtype list (of the order of 20,000 with AGP) and makes the PAT
tracking simpler.
We are using PG_arch_1 bit in page->flags.
We still use the memtype list for non RAM pages.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
All kernel mappings like ioremap(), etc uses UC_MINUS as the type. /dev/mem
mappings with /dev/mem being opened with O_SYNC however was using UC,
resulting in a conflict with /dev/mem mmap failing. This seems to be
affecting some apps (one being flashrom) which are using O_SYNC and which were
working before.
Switch /dev/mem with O_SYNC also to UC_MINUS.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rene Herman reported significant Xorg startup/shutdown slowdown due
to PAT. It turns out that the memtype list has thousands of entries.
Add cached_entry to list add routine, in order to speed up the
lookup for sequential reserve_memtype calls.
Reported-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Recently I've run a kernel w/o PAT support and wondered why there was
a file "x86/pat_memtype_list" in debugfs. Of course it's empty if PAT
is disabled ... so just get rid of this interface if PAT is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:47:17 -0700
CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM was a rather confusing name - but renaming it
to CONFIG_PROMISC_DEVMEM causes problems on architectures that do not
support this feature; this patch renames it to CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM,
so that architectures can opt-in into it.
( the polarity of the option is still the same as it was originally; it
needs to be for now to not break architectures that don't have the
infastructure yet to support this feature)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "V.Radhakrishnan" <rk@atr-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
Add a debugfs interface to list out all the PAT memtype reservations.
Appears at debugfs x86/pat_memtype_list and output format is
type @ <start addr>-<end addr>
We do not hold the lock while printing the entire list. So, the list may not be
a consistent copy in case where regions are getting added or deleted
at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Linus observed:
> The real bug is that we shouldn't have "double negatives", and
> certainly not negative config options. Making that "promiscuous
> /dev/mem" option a negated thing as a config option was bad.
right ... lets rename this option. There should never be a negation
in config options.
[ that reminds me of CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER, but that
is for another commit ;-) ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
tighten the boundary checks around max_low_pfn_mapped - dont overmap
nor undermap into holes.
also print out tseg for AMD cpus, for diagnostic purposes.
(this is an SMM area, and we split up any big mappings around that area)
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
when more than 4g memory is installed, don't map the big hole below 4g.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
... to strip down loop body in reserve_memtype.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh B Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
... and move last debug message out of locked section.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh B Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- add BUG statement to catch invalid start and end parameters
- No need to track the actual type in both req_type and actual_type --
keep req_type unchanged.
- removed (IMHO) superfluous comments
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh B Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- parse/ml => entry (within list_for_each and friends)
- new_entry => new
- ret_type => new_type (to avoid confusion with req_type)
(... to make it more readable...)
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh B Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clean up over-complications in pat_x_mtrr_type().
And if reserve_memtype() ignores stray req_type bits when
pat_enabled, it's better to mask them off when not also.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
BTW, what does pat_wc_enabled stand for? Does it mean
"write-combining"?
Currently it is used to globally switch on or off PAT support.
Thus I renamed it to pat_enabled.
I think this increases readability (and hope that I didn't miss
something).
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Starting with commit 8d4a430085 (x86:
cleanup PAT cpu validation) the PAT CPU feature flag is not cleared
anymore. Now the error message
"PAT enabled, but CPU feature cleared"
in pat_init() is misleading.
Furthermore the current code does not check for existence of the PAT
CPU feature flag if a CPU is whitelisted in validate_pat_support.
This patch clears pat_wc_enabled if boot CPU has no PAT feature flag
and adapts the paranoia check.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clarify the usage of mtrr_lookup() in PAT code, and to make PAT code
resilient to mtrr lookup problems.
Specifically, pat_x_mtrr_type() is restructured to highlight, under what
conditions we look for mtrr hint. pat_x_mtrr_type() uses a default type
when there are any errors in mtrr lookup (still maintaining the pat
consistency). And, reserve_memtype() highlights its usage ot mtrr_lookup
for request type of '-1' and also defaults in a sane way on any mtrr
lookup failure.
pat.c looks at mtrr type of a range to get a hint on what mapping type
to request when user/API: (1) hasn't specified any type (/dev/mem
mapping) and we do not want to take performance hit by always mapping
UC_MINUS. This will be the case for /dev/mem mappings used to map BIOS
area or ACPI region which are WB'able. In this case, as long as MTRR is
not WB, PAT will request UC_MINUS for such mappings.
(2) user/API requests WB mapping while in reality MTRR may have UC or
WC. In this case, PAT can map as WB (without checking MTRR) and still
effective type will be UC or WC. But, a subsequent request to map same
region as UC or WC may fail, as the region will get trackked as WB in
PAT list. Looking at MTRR hint helps us to track based on effective type
rather than what user requested. Again, here mtrr_lookup is only used as
hint and we fallback to WB mapping (as requested by user) as default.
In both cases, after using the mtrr hint, we still go through the
memtype list to make sure there are no inconsistencies among multiple
users.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Rufus & Azrael <rufus-azrael@numericable.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix this:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x114bb): Section mismatch in reference from
the function nopat() to the function .cpuinit.text:pat_disable()
The function nopat() references
the function __cpuinit pat_disable().
This is often because nopat lacks a __cpuinit
annotation or the annotation of pat_disable is wrong.
Reported-by: "Fabio Comolli" <fabio.comolli@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clarify the usage of mtrr_lookup() in PAT code, and to make PAT code
resilient to mtrr lookup problems.
Specifically, pat_x_mtrr_type() is restructured to highlight, under what
conditions we look for mtrr hint. pat_x_mtrr_type() uses a default type
when there are any errors in mtrr lookup (still maintaining the pat
consistency). And, reserve_memtype() highlights its usage ot mtrr_lookup
for request type of '-1' and also defaults in a sane way on any mtrr
lookup failure.
pat.c looks at mtrr type of a range to get a hint on what mapping type
to request when user/API: (1) hasn't specified any type (/dev/mem
mapping) and we do not want to take performance hit by always mapping
UC_MINUS. This will be the case for /dev/mem mappings used to map BIOS
area or ACPI region which are WB'able. In this case, as long as MTRR is
not WB, PAT will request UC_MINUS for such mappings.
(2) user/API requests WB mapping while in reality MTRR may have UC or
WC. In this case, PAT can map as WB (without checking MTRR) and still
effective type will be UC or WC. But, a subsequent request to map same
region as UC or WC may fail, as the region will get trackked as WB in
PAT list. Looking at MTRR hint helps us to track based on effective type
rather than what user requested. Again, here mtrr_lookup is only used as
hint and we fallback to WB mapping (as requested by user) as default.
In both cases, after using the mtrr hint, we still go through the
memtype list to make sure there are no inconsistencies among multiple
users.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Rufus & Azrael <rufus-azrael@numericable.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
