Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933501AbaLECQw (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 21:16:52 -0500 Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:22566 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751838AbaLECQv (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 21:16:51 -0500 Message-ID: <5481158D.1000409@imgtec.com> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 18:16:45 -0800 From: Leonid Yegoshin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Persson , Ralf Baechle CC: "linux-mips@linux-mips.org" , "james.hogan@imgtec.com" , "keescook@chromium.org" , "paul.burton@imgtec.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "manuel.lauss@gmail.com" , "pbonzini@redhat.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "blogic@openwrt.org" , "markos.chandras@imgtec.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "MIPS: Remove race window in page fault handling" References: <20141203032542.15388.17340.stgit@linux-yegoshin> <1417599104.10996.16.camel@lnxlarper.se.axis.com> <20141203134226.GC16063@linux-mips.org> <1417615394.10198.3.camel@lnxlarper.se.axis.com> In-Reply-To: <1417615394.10198.3.camel@lnxlarper.se.axis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [192.168.65.146] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (repeat mesg, first one went to wrong place) Lars, Do you have a stack trace or so then you found the second VPE between set_pte_at and update_mmu_cache? It would be interesting how it happens - generally, to get a consistent SIGILL in applications due to misbehaviour of memory subsystem, the bug in FS is not enough. Hold on - do you use non-DMA file system? If so, I advice you to try this simple patch: Author: Leonid Yegoshin Date: Tue Apr 2 14:20:37 2013 -0700 MIPS: (opt) Fix of reading I-pages from non-DMA FS devices for ID cache separation This optional fix provides a D-cache flush for instruction code pages on page faults. In case of non-DMA block device a driver doesn't know that it reads I-page and doesn't flush D-cache generally on systems without cache aliasing. And that takes toll during page fault of instruction pages. It is not a perfect fix, it should be considered as a temporary fix. The permanent fix would track page origin in page cache and flushes D-cache during reception of page from driver only but not at each page fault. It is not done yet. Change-Id: I43f5943d6ce0509729179615f6b81e77803a34ac Author: Leonid Yegoshin Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin (imported from commit 6ebd22eb7a3d9873582ebe990a77094f971652ee)(imported from commit 0caf3b4a1eebb64572e81e4df6fdb3abf12c70 arch/mips/include/asm/cacheflush.h: @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ static inline void flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, static inline void flush_icache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page) { + if (cpu_has_dc_aliases || + ((vma->vm_flags & VM_EXEC) && !cpu_has_ic_fills_f_dc)) + __flush_dcache_page(page); } extern void (*flush_icache_range)(unsigned long start, unsigned long end); It fixed crash problems with non-DMA FS in a couple of our customers. Without it the non-DMA root FS crashes are catastrophic in aliasing systems but it is still a problem for I-cache too but much rare. Unfortunately, it is also a performance hit, however is less than run a page cache flush at each PTE setup. On 12/03/2014 06:03 AM, Lars Persson wrote: > It is the flush_dcache_page() that was called from the file-system > reading the page contents into memory. > > - Lars > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/