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authorToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>2016-04-11 13:36:00 -0600
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-04-13 11:35:33 +0200
commit1886297ce0c8d563a08c8a8c4c0b97743e06cd37 (patch)
tree6b72c3de26336249f48f24c8859ef8b88acd93d2 /Documentation/block
parent568a58e5dfbcb88011cad7f87ed046aa00f19d1a (diff)
x86/mm/pat: Fix BUG_ON() in mmap_mem() on QEMU/i386
The following BUG_ON() crash was reported on QEMU/i386: kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:79! Call Trace: phys_mem_access_prot_allowed mmap_mem ? mmap_region mmap_region do_mmap vm_mmap_pgoff SyS_mmap_pgoff do_int80_syscall_32 entry_INT80_32 after commit: edfe63ec97ed ("x86/mtrr: Fix Xorg crashes in Qemu sessions") PAT is now set to disabled state when MTRRs are disabled. Thus, reactivating the __pa(high_memory) check in phys_mem_access_prot_allowed(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is set, __pa() calls __phys_addr(), which in turn calls slow_virt_to_phys() for 'high_memory'. Because 'high_memory' is set to (the max direct mapped virt addr + 1), it is not a valid virtual address. Hence, slow_virt_to_phys() returns 0 and hit the BUG_ON. Using __pa_nodebug() instead of __pa() will fix this BUG_ON. However, this code block, originally written for Pentiums and earlier, is no longer adequate since a 32-bit Xen guest has MTRRs disabled and supports ZONE_HIGHMEM. In this setup, this code sets UC attribute for accessing RAM in high memory range. Delete this code block as it has been unused for a long time. Reported-by: kernel test robot <ying.huang@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460403360-25441-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/1/608 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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