Patch "arch: pgtable: define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS where needed" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Nov 4 01:34:37 PDT 2021 

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    arch: pgtable: define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS where needed

to the 4.9-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:
     arch-pgtable-define-max_possible_physmem_bits-where-needed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo at baz Thu Nov  4 09:33:49 AM CET 2021
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
Date: Wed,  3 Nov 2021 13:57:14 -0700
Subject: arch: pgtable: define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS where needed
To: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>, Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend at alpha.franken.de>, Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>, Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>, Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>, Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>, Ralf Baechle <ralf at linux-mips.org>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>, Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>, x86 at kernel.org (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)), Minchan Kim <minchan at kernel.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta at vflare.org>, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work at gmail.com>, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>, linux-snps-arc at lists.infradead.org (open list:SYNOPSYS ARC ARCHITECTURE), linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org (mod
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

[ Upstream commit cef397038167ac15d085914493d6c86385773709 ]

Stefan Agner reported a bug when using zsram on 32-bit Arm machines
with RAM above the 4GB address boundary:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
  pgd = a27bd01c
  [00000000] *pgd=236a0003, *pmd=1ffa64003
  Internal error: Oops: 207 [#1] SMP ARM
  Modules linked in: mdio_bcm_unimac(+) brcmfmac cfg80211 brcmutil raspberrypi_hwmon hci_uart crc32_arm_ce bcm2711_thermal phy_generic genet
  CPU: 0 PID: 123 Comm: mkfs.ext4 Not tainted 5.9.6 #1
  Hardware name: BCM2711
  PC is at zs_map_object+0x94/0x338
  LR is at zram_bvec_rw.constprop.0+0x330/0xa64
  pc : [<c0602b38>]    lr : [<c0bda6a0>]    psr: 60000013
  sp : e376bbe0  ip : 00000000  fp : c1e2921c
  r10: 00000002  r9 : c1dda730  r8 : 00000000
  r7 : e8ff7a00  r6 : 00000000  r5 : 02f9ffa0  r4 : e3710000
  r3 : 000fdffe  r2 : c1e0ce80  r1 : ebf979a0  r0 : 00000000
  Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment user
  Control: 30c5383d  Table: 235c2a80  DAC: fffffffd
  Process mkfs.ext4 (pid: 123, stack limit = 0x495a22e6)
  Stack: (0xe376bbe0 to 0xe376c000)

As it turns out, zsram needs to know the maximum memory size, which
is defined in MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM is set, or in
MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS on the x86 architecture.

The same problem will be hit on all 32-bit architectures that have a
physical address space larger than 4GB and happen to not enable sparsemem
and include asm/sparsemem.h from asm/pgtable.h.

After the initial discussion, I suggested just always defining
MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS whenever CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is
set, or provoking a build error otherwise. This addresses all
configurations that can currently have this runtime bug, but
leaves all other configurations unchanged.

I looked up the possible number of bits in source code and
datasheets, here is what I found:

 - on ARC, CONFIG_ARC_HAS_PAE40 controls whether 32 or 40 bits are used
 - on ARM, CONFIG_LPAE enables 40 bit addressing, without it we never
   support more than 32 bits, even though supersections in theory allow
   up to 40 bits as well.
 - on MIPS, some MIPS32r1 or later chips support 36 bits, and MIPS32r5
   XPA supports up to 60 bits in theory, but 40 bits are more than
   anyone will ever ship
 - On PowerPC, there are three different implementations of 36 bit
   addressing, but 32-bit is used without CONFIG_PTE_64BIT
 - On RISC-V, the normal page table format can support 34 bit
   addressing. There is no highmem support on RISC-V, so anything
   above 2GB is unused, but it might be useful to eventually support
   CONFIG_ZRAM for high pages.

Fixes: 61989a80fb3a ("staging: zsmalloc: zsmalloc memory allocation library")
Fixes: 02390b87a945 ("mm/zsmalloc: Prepare to variable MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS")
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend at alpha.franken.de>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
Tested-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/bdfa44bf1c570b05d6c70898e2bbb0acf234ecdf.1604762181.git.stefan@agner.ch/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
[florian: patch arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h for 4.9.y
removed arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h which does not exist]
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable.h        |    2 ++
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h |    2 ++
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h |    2 ++
 arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-32.h    |    3 +++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h |    2 ++
 include/asm-generic/pgtable.h         |   13 +++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -137,8 +137,10 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARC_HAS_PAE40
 #define PTE_BITS_NON_RWX_IN_PD1	(0xff00000000 | PAGE_MASK | _PAGE_CACHEABLE)
+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 40
 #else
 #define PTE_BITS_NON_RWX_IN_PD1	(PAGE_MASK | _PAGE_CACHEABLE)
+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 32
 #endif
 
 /**************************************************************************
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@
 #define PTE_HWTABLE_OFF		(PTE_HWTABLE_PTRS * sizeof(pte_t))
 #define PTE_HWTABLE_SIZE	(PTRS_PER_PTE * sizeof(u32))
 
+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS	32
+
 /*
  * PMD_SHIFT determines the size of the area a second-level page table can map
  * PGDIR_SHIFT determines what a third-level page table entry can map
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
 #define PTE_HWTABLE_OFF		(0)
 #define PTE_HWTABLE_SIZE	(PTRS_PER_PTE * sizeof(u64))
 
+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 40
+
 /*
  * PGDIR_SHIFT determines the size a top-level page table entry can map.
  */
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-32.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-32.h
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ static inline void pmd_clear(pmd_t *pmdp
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_XPA)
 
+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 40
 #define pte_pfn(x)		(((unsigned long)((x).pte_high >> _PFN_SHIFT)) | (unsigned long)((x).pte_low << _PAGE_PRESENT_SHIFT))
 static inline pte_t
 pfn_pte(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot)
@@ -125,6 +126,7 @@ pfn_pte(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot
 
 #elif defined(CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT) && defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32)
 
+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 36
 #define pte_pfn(x)		((unsigned long)((x).pte_high >> 6))
 
 static inline pte_t pfn_pte(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot)
@@ -139,6 +141,7 @@ static inline pte_t pfn_pte(unsigned lon
 
 #else
 
+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 32
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_VR41XX
 #define pte_pfn(x)		((unsigned long)((x).pte >> (PAGE_SHIFT + 2)))
 #define pfn_pte(pfn, prot)	__pte(((pfn) << (PAGE_SHIFT + 2)) | pgprot_val(prot))
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
@@ -101,8 +101,10 @@ static inline bool pte_user(pte_t pte)
  */
 #if defined(CONFIG_PPC32) && defined(CONFIG_PTE_64BIT)
 #define PTE_RPN_MASK	(~((1ULL<<PTE_RPN_SHIFT)-1))
+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 36
 #else
 #define PTE_RPN_MASK	(~((1UL<<PTE_RPN_SHIFT)-1))
+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 32
 #endif
 
 /* _PAGE_CHG_MASK masks of bits that are to be preserved across
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -847,6 +847,19 @@ static inline bool arch_has_pfn_modify_c
 #define io_remap_pfn_range remap_pfn_range
 #endif
 
+#if !defined(MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS) && !defined(CONFIG_64BIT)
+#ifdef CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
+/*
+ * ZSMALLOC needs to know the highest PFN on 32-bit architectures
+ * with physical address space extension, but falls back to
+ * BITS_PER_LONG otherwise.
+ */
+#error Missing MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS definition
+#else
+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 32
+#endif
+#endif
+
 #ifndef has_transparent_hugepage
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 #define has_transparent_hugepage() 1


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from f.fainelli at gmail.com are

queue-4.9/mm-zsmalloc-prepare-to-variable-max_physmem_bits.patch
queue-4.9/arch-pgtable-define-max_possible_physmem_bits-where-needed.patch

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