[RFC][PATCH 02/34] x86/xen: Remove early "debug" physical address lookups

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Feb 22 2024 - 13:43:05 EST



From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The __pa() facility is subject to debugging checks if CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y.
One of those debugging checks is whether the physical address is valid
on the platform. That information is normally available via CPUID. But
the __pa() code currently looks it up in 'boot_cpu_data' which is not
fully set up in early Xen PV boot.

The Xen PV code currently tries to get this info with
get_cpu_address_sizes() which also depends on 'boot_cpu_data' to be at
least somewhat set up. The result is that the c->x86_phys_bits gets a
sane value, but not one that has anything to do with the hardware. In
other words, the CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL checks are performed with what
amounts to garbage inputs.

Garbage checks are worse than no check at all. Move over to the
"nodebug" variant to axe the checks.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
---

b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c | 2 +-
b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c~xen-no-early-__pa arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c~xen-no-early-__pa 2024-02-22 10:08:48.868469363 -0800
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c 2024-02-22 10:08:48.872469519 -0800
@@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init xen_sta
boot_params.hdr.type_of_loader = (9 << 4) | 0;
boot_params.hdr.ramdisk_image = initrd_start;
boot_params.hdr.ramdisk_size = xen_start_info->mod_len;
- boot_params.hdr.cmd_line_ptr = __pa(xen_start_info->cmd_line);
+ boot_params.hdr.cmd_line_ptr = __pa_nodebug(xen_start_info->cmd_line);
boot_params.hdr.hardware_subarch = X86_SUBARCH_XEN;

if (!xen_initial_domain()) {
diff -puN arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c~xen-no-early-__pa arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c~xen-no-early-__pa 2024-02-22 10:08:48.872469519 -0800
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c 2024-02-22 10:08:48.872469519 -0800
@@ -2006,7 +2006,7 @@ void __init xen_reserve_special_pages(vo
{
phys_addr_t paddr;

- memblock_reserve(__pa(xen_start_info), PAGE_SIZE);
+ memblock_reserve(__pa_nodebug(xen_start_info), PAGE_SIZE);
if (xen_start_info->store_mfn) {
paddr = PFN_PHYS(mfn_to_pfn(xen_start_info->store_mfn));
memblock_reserve(paddr, PAGE_SIZE);
_