[PATCH -next v4 3/7] arm64: add support for machine check error safe
Tong Tiangen
tongtiangen at huawei.com
Thu May 26 18:40:36 PDT 2022
在 2022/5/26 17:50, Mark Rutland 写道:
> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 11:36:41AM +0800, Tong Tiangen wrote:
>>
>>
>> 在 2022/5/25 16:30, Mark Rutland 写道:
>>> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 02:29:54PM +0800, Tong Tiangen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 在 2022/5/13 23:26, Mark Rutland 写道:
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 03:04:14AM +0000, Tong Tiangen wrote:
>>>>>> During the processing of arm64 kernel hardware memory errors(do_sea()), if
>>>>>> the errors is consumed in the kernel, the current processing is panic.
>>>>>> However, it is not optimal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Take uaccess for example, if the uaccess operation fails due to memory
>>>>>> error, only the user process will be affected, kill the user process
>>>>>> and isolate the user page with hardware memory errors is a better choice.
>>>>>
>>>>> Conceptually, I'm fine with the idea of constraining what we do for a
>>>>> true uaccess, but I don't like the implementation of this at all, and I
>>>>> think we first need to clean up the arm64 extable usage to clearly
>>>>> distinguish a uaccess from another access.
>>>>
>>>> OK,using EX_TYPE_UACCESS and this extable type could be recover, this is
>>>> more reasonable.
>>>
>>> Great.
>>>
>>>> For EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO, today we use it for kernel accesses in a
>>>> couple of cases, such as
>>>> get_user/futex/__user_cache_maint()/__user_swpX_asm(),
>>>
>>> Those are all user accesses.
>>>
>>> However, __get_kernel_nofault() and __put_kernel_nofault() use
>>> EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO by way of __{get,put}_mem_asm(), so we'd need to
>>> refactor that code to split the user/kernel cases higher up the callchain.
>>>
>>>> your suggestion is:
>>>> get_user continues to use EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO and the other cases use
>>>> new type EX_TYPE_FIXUP_ERR_ZERO?
>>>
>>> Yes, that's the rough shape. We could make the latter EX_TYPE_KACCESS_ERR_ZERO
>>> to be clearly analogous to EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO, and with that I susepct we
>>> could remove EX_TYPE_FIXUP.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark.
>> According to your suggestion, i think the definition is like this:
>>
>> #define EX_TYPE_NONE 0
>> #define EX_TYPE_FIXUP 1 --> delete
>> #define EX_TYPE_BPF 2
>> #define EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO 3
>> #define EX_TYPE_LOAD_UNALIGNED_ZEROPAD 4
>> #define EX_TYPE_UACCESS xx --> add
>> #define EX_TYPE_KACCESS_ERR_ZERO xx --> add
>> [The value defined by the macro here is temporary]
>
> Almost; you don't need to add EX_TYPE_UACCESS here, as you can use
> EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO for that.
>
> We already have:
>
> | #define _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR(insn, fixup, err) \
> | _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO(insn, fixup, err, wzr)
>
> ... and we can add:
>
> | #define _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS(insn, fixup) \
> | _ASM_EXTABLE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO(insn, fixup, wzr, wzr)
>
>
> ... and maybe we should use 'xzr' rather than 'wzr' for clarity.
>
>> There are two points to modify:
>>
>> 1、_get_kernel_nofault() and __put_kernel_nofault() using
>> EX_TYPE_KACCESS_ERR_ZERO, Other positions using EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO
>> keep unchanged.
>
> That sounds right to me. This will require refactoring __raw_{get,put}_mem()
> and __{get,put}_mem_asm().
>
>> 2、delete EX_TYPE_FIXUP.
>>
>> There is no doubt about others. As for EX_TYPE_FIXUP, I think it needs to be
>> retained, _cond_extable(EX_TYPE_FIXUP) is still in use in assembler.h.
>
> We use _cond_extable for cache maintenance uaccesses, so those should be moved
> over to to EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO. We can rename _cond_extable to
> _cond_uaccess_extable for clarity.
>
> That will require restructuring asm-extable.h a bit. If that turns out to be
> painful I'm happy to take a look.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
OK, I'll do it these days, thanks a lot.
> .
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