[PATCH v3 7/7] ARM: implement support for vmap'ed stacks

[Tony Lindgren]

* Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org> [211117 10:49]:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 10:08, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 10:07, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:03 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 9:36 AM Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> > > > > * Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org> [211117 08:29]:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks Tony, that is very helpful. I have a Beaglebone white somewhere
> > > > > > so I'll try and reproduce it locally as well.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think with Beaglebone you may hit this only with suspend/resume if at
> > > > > all. On am335x cpuidle is not shutting down the CPU. And only some models
> > > > > will suspend to deeper idle states as it depends on the PMIC.
> > > > >
> > > > > If you have some test patch to try, just let me know.
> > > >
> > > > I looked at how the sleep code is called and found that cpu_suspend()/
> > > > __cpu_suspend() has interesting manipulation of the stack pointer to
> > > > call the platform specific function with a simple 1:1 page table,
> > > > I would expect the problem somewhere in there, haven't pinpointed
> > > > the exact line yet, but if any of that code tries to local the physical
> > > > address of the stack using virt_to_phys or its asm equivalent, this
> > > > fails for a vmap stack.
> > >
> > > and just after sending this I see
> > >
> > > void __cpu_suspend_save(u32 *ptr, u32 ptrsz, u32 sp, u32 *save_ptr)
> > > {
> > >         *save_ptr = virt_to_phys(ptr);
> > >
> > > 'ptr' is a pointer to the stack here. It might not be the only place that
> > > needs fixing, but this clearly has to do a page table walk like
> > > vmalloc_to_page() does to get to the correct physical address.
> > >
> >
> > I had just arrived at the same conclusion. I'll fix this up and drop
> > it in kernelci.
> 
> Updated branch here:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/commit/?h=arm-vmap-stacks-v4

Great that branch boots for me!

Regards,

Tony