[PATCH 4/4] ARM: KVM: fix use of S2_PGD_SIZE

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue Apr 30 13:59:50 EDT 2013


On 30/04/13 18:56, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:52:24PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 30/04/13 18:40, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>>>> S2_PGD_SIZE describe the number of pages a used by a stage-2 PGD,
>>>> not the size of the PGD.
>>>>
>>>> Fix the VM_BUG_ON() call that doesn't check much when S2_PGD_SIZE
>>>> is equal to 1.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +-
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
>>>> index b978ebe..09ece5c 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
>>>> @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ int kvm_alloc_stage2_pgd(struct kvm *kvm)
>>>>                 return -ENOMEM;
>>>>
>>>>         /* stage-2 pgd must be aligned to its size */
>>>> -       VM_BUG_ON((unsigned long)pgd & (S2_PGD_SIZE - 1));
>>>> +       VM_BUG_ON((unsigned long)pgd & (PAGE_SIZE * S2_PGD_SIZE - 1));
>>>
>>> I think the define is broken and should be fixed and/or renamed instead.
>>
>> To be fair, I wouldn't mind the whole check to be dropped altogether. If
>> __get_free_pages doesn't give you an aligned allocation, the whole
>> kernel is going the way of the dodo, and we shouldn't really care...
>>
>> Your call, really.
>>
> Yeah, this is from way back when, where the whole thing was different
> and we were debugging all sorts of issues, so we can get rid of both the
> check and the define in stead.  Want to take care of it as part of your
> series?

Sure. I'll kill it when I repost the series.

	M.
-- 
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