Re: unify pagetable accessors patch causes double fault II

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 02:46:00PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> >     
> > > > OK, I see the problem.  The problem is that the _PAGE_X defines are 
> > > > defined with _AC(UL, 1 << _PAGE_BIT_X), which has unsigned long type.  
> > > > This means that ~_PAGE_X also has unsigned long type, and so when cast 
> > > > to 64-bit in pte_mkX, it ends up &ing the pte with 0x00000000ffffffxxx, 
> > > > with predictable results.
> > > >    
> > > >         
> > > Actually I fixed some of that -- see the pgtable-nx patch on firstfloor -- 
> > > but
> > > it still doesn't work. Or maybe my patch was not complete.
> > >  
> > >       
> > Yeah, that looks like the right sort of thing, but I wonder if there's 
> > other places doing an open-coded "pte_val(pte) & ~_PAGE_FOO".  My patch 
> > changes the definition of _PAGE_FOO so it should be OK everywhere.
> >     
>
> Yes that's probably better. I just hit it because NX bits went missing.
>
>   
> > > > The original code just used signed constants for the _PAGE_X 
> > > > definitions, which will sign-extend when cast to 64-bit, and so have the 
> > > > upper bits set when masking.  (Well, actually, the old code just 
> > > > operated on pte_low, so the problem didn't arise; however, pgtable_64.h 
> > > > also uses integers for its _PAGE_X, which has the same sign-extended 
> > > > 32->64 casting property).
> > > >
> > > > I'll put together a fixup patch now.
> > > >    
> > > >         
> > > I'm leaving now but can test later.
> > >  
> > >       
> > Can you try this out?  It applies after "x86: move all asm/pgtable 
> > constants into one place".
> >     
>
> I just applied over the whole git-x86 patchkit (tip 
> 2f42671697ea9abc7d10ea7f663d6ef6e8ec6358)  + the two build fixes
> Unfortunately it didn't work, although the faulting loop is shorter now:
>   

Just to be clear, these two patches cause this oops to appear?  Current 
x86.git seems to be missing a pile of patches at the moment, so I 
presume you're using a version which does have my patch set?

> Freeing unused kernel memory: 260k freed
> mount[1159]: segfault at b7fcfe98 ip b7ec6b7a sp bfcfcdec error 7
> Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)
>   page pfn = bfc33
>   page->flags = 80000014
>   page->count = 0
>   page->mapping = 00000000
>   vma->vm_ops = nfs_file_vm_ops+0x0/0x18
>   vma->vm_ops->nopage = 0x0
>   vma->vm_ops->fault = filemap_fault+0x0/0x34e
>   vma->vm_file->f_op->mmap = nfs_file_mmap+0x0/0x61
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/mm/rmap.c:631!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
> Modules linked in:
>
> Pid: 1159, comm: mount Not tainted (2.6.24-rc7 #55)
> EIP: 0060:[<c0152a32>] EFLAGS: 00010282 CPU: 3
> EIP is at page_remove_rmap+0xcc/0xe7
> EAX: 00000037 EBX: c27f8660 ECX: 00000046 EDX: 00000046
> ESI: f7061c60 EDI: f7d87380 EBP: f7060e78 ESP: f7509df8
>  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
> Process mount (pid: 1159, ti=f7508000 task=f7460540 task.ti=f7508000)
> Stack: c27f8660 bfc33065 c014d166 00000000 f7061c60 f7509e80 00000000 00000000
>        00000000 00000001 b7fd0000 f7555010 f7d87380 c482e240 00000000 ffffffff
>        c16e0c0c 00000000 00000000 f7084df8 003d5ee2 b7fd0000 b7fd0000 00000000
> Call Trace:
>  [<c014d166>] unmap_vmas+0x349/0x5d1
>  [<c0150006>] exit_mmap+0x5f/0xcd
>  [<c011df0a>] mmput+0x25/0x79
>  [<c0122636>] do_exit+0x1a9/0x5eb
>  [<c0122ae3>] sys_exit_group+0x0/0xd
>  [<c0129dde>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x3e3/0x405
>  [<c04334b6>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x69f
>  [<c0102606>] do_notify_resume+0x7d/0x64e
>  [<c0120383>] printk+0x14/0x18
>  [<c0433874>] do_page_fault+0x3be/0x69f
>  [<c0433b4c>] do_page_fault+0x696/0x69f
>  [<c01508c1>] do_munmap+0x181/0x19b
>  [<c04334b6>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x69f
>  [<c0102f4e>] work_notifysig+0x13/0x19
>  =======================
> Code: 8b 46 44 8b 50 08 b8 d2 95 50 c0 e8 9c ad fe ff 8b 46 4c 85 c0 74 14 8b 40 10 85 c0 74 0d 8b 50 2c b8 f0 95 50 c0 e8 81 ad fe ff <0f> 0b eb fe 8b 53 10 89 d8 5b 5e 83 e2 01 f7 da 83 c2 04 e9 c5
> EIP: [<c0152a32>] page_remove_rmap+0xcc/0xe7 SS:ESP 0068:f7509df8
> ---[ end trace eb3c259ee0695fdd ]---
> Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
>   

   J
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