Thread (30 messages) 30 messages, 5 authors, 2020-03-03

Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] mm/memory_hotplug: Add pgprot_t to mhp_params

From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2020-02-24 09:26:28
Also in: linux-mm, linux-s390, linux-sh, linuxppc-dev, lkml, platform-driver-x86

On 21.02.20 19:25, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
devm_memremap_pages() is currently used by the PCI P2PDMA code to create
struct page mappings for IO memory. At present, these mappings are created
with PAGE_KERNEL which implies setting the PAT bits to be WB. However, on
x86, an mtrr register will typically override this and force the cache
type to be UC-. In the case firmware doesn't set this register it is
effectively WB and will typically result in a machine check exception
when it's accessed.

Other arches are not currently likely to function correctly seeing they
don't have any MTRR registers to fall back on.

To solve this, provide a way to specify the pgprot value explicitly to
arch_add_memory().

Of the arches that support MEMORY_HOTPLUG: x86_64, and arm64 need a simple
change to pass the pgprot_t down to their respective functions which set
up the page tables. For x86_32, set the page tables explicitly using
_set_memory_prot() (seeing they are already mapped). For ia64, s390 and
sh, reject anything but PAGE_KERNEL settings -- this should be fine,
for now, seeing these architectures don't support ZONE_DEVICE.

A check in __add_pages() is also added to ensure the pgprot parameter was
set for all arches.

Cc: Dan Williams <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <redacted>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index c5df1b3dada0..30d6c1b8847e 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -56,9 +56,11 @@ enum {
 /*
  * Extended parameters for memory hotplug:
  * altmap: alternative allocator for memmap array (optional)
+ * pgprot: page protection flags to apply to newly added page tables (required)
s/added/created/?



-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb


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