This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "xen: properly account for _PAGE_NUMA during xen pte translations"
to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
revert-xen-properly-account-for-_page_numa-during-xen-pte-translations.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 5926f87fdaad4be3ed10cec563bf357915e55a86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Vrabel <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:38:37 +0000
Subject: Revert "xen: properly account for _PAGE_NUMA during xen pte
translations"
From: David Vrabel <[email protected]>
commit 5926f87fdaad4be3ed10cec563bf357915e55a86 upstream.
This reverts commit a9c8e4beeeb64c22b84c803747487857fe424b68.
PTEs in Xen PV guests must contain machine addresses if _PAGE_PRESENT
is set and pseudo-physical addresses is _PAGE_PRESENT is clear.
This is because during a domain save/restore (migration) the page
table entries are "canonicalised" and uncanonicalised". i.e., MFNs are
converted to PFNs during domain save so that on a restore the page
table entries may be rewritten with the new MFNs on the destination.
This canonicalisation is only done for PTEs that are present.
This change resulted in writing PTEs with MFNs if _PAGE_PROTNONE (or
_PAGE_NUMA) was set but _PAGE_PRESENT was clear. These PTEs would be
migrated as-is which would result in unexpected behaviour in the
destination domain. Either a) the MFN would be translated to the
wrong PFN/page; b) setting the _PAGE_PRESENT bit would clear the PTE
because the MFN is no longer owned by the domain; or c) the present
bit would not get set.
Symptoms include "Bad page" reports when munmapping after migrating a
domain.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 14 ++------------
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -445,20 +445,10 @@ static inline int pte_same(pte_t a, pte_
return a.pte == b.pte;
}
-static inline int pteval_present(pteval_t pteval)
-{
- /*
- * Yes Linus, _PAGE_PROTNONE == _PAGE_NUMA. Expressing it this
- * way clearly states that the intent is that protnone and numa
- * hinting ptes are considered present for the purposes of
- * pagetable operations like zapping, protection changes, gup etc.
- */
- return pteval & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE | _PAGE_NUMA);
-}
-
static inline int pte_present(pte_t a)
{
- return pteval_present(pte_flags(a));
+ return pte_flags(a) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE |
+ _PAGE_NUMA);
}
#define pte_accessible pte_accessible
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ void xen_ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct
/* Assume pteval_t is equivalent to all the other *val_t types. */
static pteval_t pte_mfn_to_pfn(pteval_t val)
{
- if (pteval_present(val)) {
+ if (val & _PAGE_PRESENT) {
unsigned long mfn = (val & PTE_PFN_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
unsigned long pfn = mfn_to_pfn(mfn);
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static pteval_t pte_mfn_to_pfn(pteval_t
static pteval_t pte_pfn_to_mfn(pteval_t val)
{
- if (pteval_present(val)) {
+ if (val & _PAGE_PRESENT) {
unsigned long pfn = (val & PTE_PFN_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
pteval_t flags = val & PTE_FLAGS_MASK;
unsigned long mfn;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.13/xen-balloon-flush-persistent-kmaps-in-correct-position.patch
queue-3.13/revert-xen-properly-account-for-_page_numa-during-xen-pte-translations.patch
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