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authorAlexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>2023-08-09 18:46:33 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-08-21 13:07:21 -0700
commita50420c79731fc5cf27ad43719c1091e842a2606 (patch)
tree2c97e31f1427258421b2ad629a948246998bf14d /mm/vmalloc.c
parent1738b949625c7e17a454b25de33f1f415da3db69 (diff)
mm: add a call to flush_cache_vmap() in vmap_pfn()
flush_cache_vmap() must be called after new vmalloc mappings are installed in the page table in order to allow architectures to make sure the new mapping is visible. It could lead to a panic since on some architectures (like powerpc), the page table walker could see the wrong pte value and trigger a spurious page fault that can not be resolved (see commit f1cb8f9beba8 ("powerpc/64s/radix: avoid ptesync after set_pte and ptep_set_access_flags")). But actually the patch is aiming at riscv: the riscv specification allows the caching of invalid entries in the TLB, and since we recently removed the vmalloc page fault handling, we now need to emit a tlb shootdown whenever a new vmalloc mapping is emitted (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230725132246.817726-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com/). That's a temporary solution, there are ways to avoid that :) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230809164633.1556126-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com Fixes: 3e9a9e256b1e ("mm: add a vmap_pfn function") Reported-by: Dylan Jhong <dylan@andestech.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/ZMytNY2J8iyjbPPy@atctrx.andestech.com/ Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Dylan Jhong <dylan@andestech.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 93cf99aba335..228a4a5312f2 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2979,6 +2979,10 @@ void *vmap_pfn(unsigned long *pfns, unsigned int count, pgprot_t prot)
free_vm_area(area);
return NULL;
}
+
+ flush_cache_vmap((unsigned long)area->addr,
+ (unsigned long)area->addr + count * PAGE_SIZE);
+
return area->addr;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmap_pfn);