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<title>parisc: Allow mmap(MAP_STACK) memory to automatically expand upwards</title>
<updated>2024-10-10T10:00:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-08T18:51:17+00:00</published>
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commit 5d698966fa7b452035c44c937d704910bf3440dd upstream.

When userspace allocates memory with mmap() in order to be used for stack,
allow this memory region to automatically expand upwards up until the
current maximum process stack size.
The fault handler checks if the VM_GROWSUP bit is set in the vm_flags field
of a memory area before it allows it to expand.
This patch modifies the parisc specific code only.
A RFC for a generic patch to modify mmap() for all architectures was sent
to the mailing list but did not get enough Acks.

Reported-by: Camm Maguire &lt;camm@maguirefamily.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v5.10+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 5d698966fa7b452035c44c937d704910bf3440dd upstream.

When userspace allocates memory with mmap() in order to be used for stack,
allow this memory region to automatically expand upwards up until the
current maximum process stack size.
The fault handler checks if the VM_GROWSUP bit is set in the vm_flags field
of a memory area before it allows it to expand.
This patch modifies the parisc specific code only.
A RFC for a generic patch to modify mmap() for all architectures was sent
to the mailing list but did not get enough Acks.

Reported-by: Camm Maguire &lt;camm@maguirefamily.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v5.10+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix 64-bit userspace syscall path</title>
<updated>2024-10-10T10:00:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-07T22:40:38+00:00</published>
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commit d24449864da5838936669618356b0e30ca2999c3 upstream.

Currently the glibc isn't yet ported to 64-bit for hppa, so
there is no usable userspace available yet.
But it's possible to manually build a static 64-bit binary
and run that for testing. One such 64-bit test program is
available at http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/src/64bit.tar.gz
and it shows various issues with the existing 64-bit syscall
path in the kernel.
This patch fixes those issues.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # v4.19+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit d24449864da5838936669618356b0e30ca2999c3 upstream.

Currently the glibc isn't yet ported to 64-bit for hppa, so
there is no usable userspace available yet.
But it's possible to manually build a static 64-bit binary
and run that for testing. One such 64-bit test program is
available at http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/src/64bit.tar.gz
and it shows various issues with the existing 64-bit syscall
path in the kernel.
This patch fixes those issues.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # v4.19+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix itlb miss handler for 64-bit programs</title>
<updated>2024-10-10T10:00:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-10T16:32:24+00:00</published>
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commit 9542130937e9dc707dd7c6b7af73326437da2d50 upstream.

For an itlb miss when executing code above 4 Gb on ILP64 adjust the
iasq/iaoq in the same way isr/ior was adjusted.  This fixes signal
delivery for the 64-bit static test program from
http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/src/64bit.tar.gz.  Note that signals are
handled by the signal trampoline code in the 64-bit VDSO which is mapped
into high userspace memory region above 4GB for 64-bit processes.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v4.19+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 9542130937e9dc707dd7c6b7af73326437da2d50 upstream.

For an itlb miss when executing code above 4 Gb on ILP64 adjust the
iasq/iaoq in the same way isr/ior was adjusted.  This fixes signal
delivery for the 64-bit static test program from
http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/src/64bit.tar.gz.  Note that signals are
handled by the signal trampoline code in the 64-bit VDSO which is mapped
into high userspace memory region above 4GB for 64-bit processes.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v4.19+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Delay write-protection until mark_rodata_ro() call</title>
<updated>2024-09-12T09:12:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-31T12:02:06+00:00</published>
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commit 213aa670153ed675a007c1f35c5db544b0fefc94 upstream.

Do not write-protect the kernel read-only and __ro_after_init sections
earlier than before mark_rodata_ro() is called.  This fixes a boot issue on
parisc which is triggered by commit 91a1d97ef482 ("jump_label,module: Don't
alloc static_key_mod for __ro_after_init keys"). That commit may modify
static key contents in the __ro_after_init section at bootup, so this
section needs to be writable at least until mark_rodata_ro() is called.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-by: matoro &lt;matoro_mailinglist_kernel@matoro.tk&gt;
Reported-by: Christoph Biedl &lt;linux-kernel.bfrz@manchmal.in-ulm.de&gt;
Tested-by: Christoph Biedl &lt;linux-kernel.bfrz@manchmal.in-ulm.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-parisc/096cad5aada514255cd7b0b9dbafc768@matoro.tk/#r
Fixes: 91a1d97ef482 ("jump_label,module: Don't alloc static_key_mod for __ro_after_init keys")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 213aa670153ed675a007c1f35c5db544b0fefc94 upstream.

Do not write-protect the kernel read-only and __ro_after_init sections
earlier than before mark_rodata_ro() is called.  This fixes a boot issue on
parisc which is triggered by commit 91a1d97ef482 ("jump_label,module: Don't
alloc static_key_mod for __ro_after_init keys"). That commit may modify
static key contents in the __ro_after_init section at bootup, so this
section needs to be writable at least until mark_rodata_ro() is called.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-by: matoro &lt;matoro_mailinglist_kernel@matoro.tk&gt;
Reported-by: Christoph Biedl &lt;linux-kernel.bfrz@manchmal.in-ulm.de&gt;
Tested-by: Christoph Biedl &lt;linux-kernel.bfrz@manchmal.in-ulm.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-parisc/096cad5aada514255cd7b0b9dbafc768@matoro.tk/#r
Fixes: 91a1d97ef482 ("jump_label,module: Don't alloc static_key_mod for __ro_after_init keys")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: fix a possible DMA corruption</title>
<updated>2024-08-14T13:34:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-27T18:22:52+00:00</published>
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commit 7ae04ba36b381bffe2471eff3a93edced843240f upstream.

ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN was defined as 16 - this is too small - it may be
possible that two unrelated 16-byte allocations share a cache line. If
one of these allocations is written using DMA and the other is written
using cached write, the value that was written with DMA may be
corrupted.

This commit changes ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to be 128 on PA20 and 32 on PA1.1 -
that's the largest possible cache line size.

As different parisc microarchitectures have different cache line size, we
define arch_slab_minalign(), cache_line_size() and
dma_get_cache_alignment() so that the kernel may tune slab cache
parameters dynamically, based on the detected cache line size.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 7ae04ba36b381bffe2471eff3a93edced843240f upstream.

ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN was defined as 16 - this is too small - it may be
possible that two unrelated 16-byte allocations share a cache line. If
one of these allocations is written using DMA and the other is written
using cached write, the value that was written with DMA may be
corrupted.

This commit changes ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to be 128 on PA20 and 32 on PA1.1 -
that's the largest possible cache line size.

As different parisc microarchitectures have different cache line size, we
define arch_slab_minalign(), cache_line_size() and
dma_get_cache_alignment() so that the kernel may tune slab cache
parameters dynamically, based on the detected cache line size.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: fix unaligned accesses in BPF</title>
<updated>2024-08-14T13:34:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-27T10:11:02+00:00</published>
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commit 1fd2c10acb7b35d72101a4619ee5b2cddb9efd3a upstream.

There were spurious unaligned access warnings when calling BPF code.
Sometimes, the warnings were triggered with any incoming packet, making
the machine hard to use.

The reason for the warnings is this: on parisc64, pointers to functions
are not really pointers to functions, they are pointers to 16-byte
descriptor. The first 8 bytes of the descriptor is a pointer to the
function and the next 8 bytes of the descriptor is the content of the
"dp" register. This descriptor is generated in the function
bpf_jit_build_prologue.

The problem is that the function bpf_int_jit_compile advertises 4-byte
alignment when calling bpf_jit_binary_alloc, bpf_jit_binary_alloc
randomizes the returned array and if the array happens to be not aligned
on 8-byte boundary, the descriptor generated in bpf_jit_build_prologue is
also not aligned and this triggers the unaligned access warning.

Fix this by advertising 8-byte alignment on parisc64 when calling
bpf_jit_binary_alloc.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 1fd2c10acb7b35d72101a4619ee5b2cddb9efd3a upstream.

There were spurious unaligned access warnings when calling BPF code.
Sometimes, the warnings were triggered with any incoming packet, making
the machine hard to use.

The reason for the warnings is this: on parisc64, pointers to functions
are not really pointers to functions, they are pointers to 16-byte
descriptor. The first 8 bytes of the descriptor is a pointer to the
function and the next 8 bytes of the descriptor is the content of the
"dp" register. This descriptor is generated in the function
bpf_jit_build_prologue.

The problem is that the function bpf_int_jit_compile advertises 4-byte
alignment when calling bpf_jit_binary_alloc, bpf_jit_binary_alloc
randomizes the returned array and if the array happens to be not aligned
on 8-byte boundary, the descriptor generated in bpf_jit_build_prologue is
also not aligned and this triggers the unaligned access warning.

Fix this by advertising 8-byte alignment on parisc64 when calling
bpf_jit_binary_alloc.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix warning at drivers/pci/msi/msi.h:121</title>
<updated>2024-08-03T07:00:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave@mx3210.local</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-01T13:42:41+00:00</published>
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commit 4c29ab84cfec17081aae7a7a28f8d2c93c42dcae upstream.

Fix warning at drivers/pci/msi/msi.h:121.

Recently, I added a PCI to PCIe bridge adaptor and a PCIe NVME card
to my rp3440. Then, I noticed this warning at boot:

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at drivers/pci/msi/msi.h:121 pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs+0x68/0x90
 CPU: 0 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/u32:0 Not tainted 6.9.7-parisc64 #1  Debian 6.9.7-1
 Hardware name: 9000/800/rp3440
 Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn

We need to select PCI_MSI_ARCH_FALLBACKS when PCI_MSI is selected.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v6.0+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4c29ab84cfec17081aae7a7a28f8d2c93c42dcae upstream.

Fix warning at drivers/pci/msi/msi.h:121.

Recently, I added a PCI to PCIe bridge adaptor and a PCIe NVME card
to my rp3440. Then, I noticed this warning at boot:

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at drivers/pci/msi/msi.h:121 pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs+0x68/0x90
 CPU: 0 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/u32:0 Not tainted 6.9.7-parisc64 #1  Debian 6.9.7-1
 Hardware name: 9000/800/rp3440
 Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn

We need to select PCI_MSI_ARCH_FALLBACKS when PCI_MSI is selected.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v6.0+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: use generic sys_fanotify_mark implementation</title>
<updated>2024-06-25T13:57:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-07T11:40:45+00:00</published>
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The sys_fanotify_mark() syscall on parisc uses the reverse word order
for the two halves of the 64-bit argument compared to all syscalls on
all 32-bit architectures. As far as I can tell, the problem is that
the function arguments on parisc are sorted backwards (26, 25, 24, 23,
...) compared to everyone else, so the calling conventions of using an
even/odd register pair in native word order result in the lower word
coming first in function arguments, matching the expected behavior
on little-endian architectures. The system call conventions however
ended up matching what the other 32-bit architectures do.

A glibc cleanup in 2020 changed the userspace behavior in a way that
handles all architectures consistently, but this inadvertently broke
parisc32 by changing to the same method as everyone else.

The change made it into glibc-2.35 and subsequently into debian 12
(bookworm), which is the latest stable release. This means we
need to choose between reverting the glibc change or changing the
kernel to match it again, but either hange will leave some systems
broken.

Pick the option that is more likely to help current and future
users and change the kernel to match current glibc. This also
means the behavior is now consistent across architectures, but
it breaks running new kernels with old glibc builds before 2.35.

Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d150181d73d9
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c?h=57b1dfbd5b4a39d
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
---
I found this through code inspection, please double-check to make
sure I got the bug and the fix right.

The alternative is to fix this by reverting glibc back to the
unusual behavior.
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The sys_fanotify_mark() syscall on parisc uses the reverse word order
for the two halves of the 64-bit argument compared to all syscalls on
all 32-bit architectures. As far as I can tell, the problem is that
the function arguments on parisc are sorted backwards (26, 25, 24, 23,
...) compared to everyone else, so the calling conventions of using an
even/odd register pair in native word order result in the lower word
coming first in function arguments, matching the expected behavior
on little-endian architectures. The system call conventions however
ended up matching what the other 32-bit architectures do.

A glibc cleanup in 2020 changed the userspace behavior in a way that
handles all architectures consistently, but this inadvertently broke
parisc32 by changing to the same method as everyone else.

The change made it into glibc-2.35 and subsequently into debian 12
(bookworm), which is the latest stable release. This means we
need to choose between reverting the glibc change or changing the
kernel to match it again, but either hange will leave some systems
broken.

Pick the option that is more likely to help current and future
users and change the kernel to match current glibc. This also
means the behavior is now consistent across architectures, but
it breaks running new kernels with old glibc builds before 2.35.

Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=d150181d73d9
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c?h=57b1dfbd5b4a39d
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
---
I found this through code inspection, please double-check to make
sure I got the bug and the fix right.

The alternative is to fix this by reverting glibc back to the
unusual behavior.
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<entry>
<title>parisc: use correct compat recv/recvfrom syscalls</title>
<updated>2024-06-25T13:57:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-19T12:27:55+00:00</published>
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Johannes missed parisc back when he introduced the compat version
of these syscalls, so receiving cmsg messages that require a compat
conversion is still broken.

Use the correct calls like the other architectures do.

Fixes: 1dacc76d0014 ("net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks")
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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Johannes missed parisc back when he introduced the compat version
of these syscalls, so receiving cmsg messages that require a compat
conversion is still broken.

Use the correct calls like the other architectures do.

Fixes: 1dacc76d0014 ("net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks")
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Try to fix random segmentation faults in package builds</title>
<updated>2024-06-11T23:57:05+00:00</updated>
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<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave@parisc-linux.org</email>
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<published>2024-06-10T18:47:07+00:00</published>
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PA-RISC systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have had problems
with random segmentation faults for many years.  Systems with earlier
processors are much more stable.

Systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have a large L2 cache which
needs per page flushing for decent performance when a large range is
flushed. The combined cache in these systems is also more sensitive to
non-equivalent aliases than the caches in earlier systems.

The majority of random segmentation faults that I have looked at
appear to be memory corruption in memory allocated using mmap and
malloc.

My first attempt at fixing the random faults didn't work. On
reviewing the cache code, I realized that there were two issues
which the existing code didn't handle correctly. Both relate
to cache move-in. Another issue is that the present bit in PTEs
is racy.

1) PA-RISC caches have a mind of their own and they can speculatively
load data and instructions for a page as long as there is a entry in
the TLB for the page which allows move-in. TLBs are local to each
CPU. Thus, the TLB entry for a page must be purged before flushing
the page. This is particularly important on SMP systems.

In some of the flush routines, the flush routine would be called
and then the TLB entry would be purged. This was because the flush
routine needed the TLB entry to do the flush.

2) My initial approach to trying the fix the random faults was to
try and use flush_cache_page_if_present for all flush operations.
This actually made things worse and led to a couple of hardware
lockups. It finally dawned on me that some lines weren't being
flushed because the pte check code was racy. This resulted in
random inequivalent mappings to physical pages.

The __flush_cache_page tmpalias flush sets up its own TLB entry
and it doesn't need the existing TLB entry. As long as we can find
the pte pointer for the vm page, we can get the pfn and physical
address of the page. We can also purge the TLB entry for the page
before doing the flush. Further, __flush_cache_page uses a special
TLB entry that inhibits cache move-in.

When switching page mappings, we need to ensure that lines are
removed from the cache.  It is not sufficient to just flush the
lines to memory as they may come back.

This made it clear that we needed to implement all the required
flush operations using tmpalias routines. This includes flushes
for user and kernel pages.

After modifying the code to use tmpalias flushes, it became clear
that the random segmentation faults were not fully resolved. The
frequency of faults was worse on systems with a 64 MB L2 (PA8900)
and systems with more CPUs (rp4440).

The warning that I added to flush_cache_page_if_present to detect
pages that couldn't be flushed triggered frequently on some systems.

Helge and I looked at the pages that couldn't be flushed and found
that the PTE was either cleared or for a swap page. Ignoring pages
that were swapped out seemed okay but pages with cleared PTEs seemed
problematic.

I looked at routines related to pte_clear and noticed ptep_clear_flush.
The default implementation just flushes the TLB entry. However, it was
obvious that on parisc we need to flush the cache page as well. If
we don't flush the cache page, stale lines will be left in the cache
and cause random corruption. Once a PTE is cleared, there is no way
to find the physical address associated with the PTE and flush the
associated page at a later time.

I implemented an updated change with a parisc specific version of
ptep_clear_flush. It fixed the random data corruption on Helge's rp4440
and rp3440, as well as on my c8000.

At this point, I realized that I could restore the code where we only
flush in flush_cache_page_if_present if the page has been accessed.
However, for this, we also need to flush the cache when the accessed
bit is cleared in ptep_clear_flush_young to keep things synchronized.
The default implementation only flushes the TLB entry.

Other changes in this version are:

1) Implement parisc specific version of ptep_get. It's identical to
default but needed in arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h.
2) Revise parisc implementation of ptep_test_and_clear_young to use
ptep_get (READ_ONCE).
3) Drop parisc implementation of ptep_get_and_clear. We can use default.
4) Revise flush_kernel_vmap_range and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range to
use full data cache flush.
5) Move flush_cache_vmap and flush_cache_vunmap to cache.c. Handle
VM_IOREMAP case in flush_cache_vmap.

At this time, I don't know whether it is better to always flush when
the PTE present bit is set or when both the accessed and present bits
are set. The later saves flushing pages that haven't been accessed,
but we need to flush in ptep_clear_flush_young. It also needs a page
table lookup to find the PTE pointer. The lpa instruction only needs
a page table lookup when the PTE entry isn't in the TLB.

We don't atomically handle setting and clearing the _PAGE_ACCESSED bit.
If we miss an update, we may miss a flush and the cache may get corrupted.
Whether the current code is effectively atomic depends on process control.

When CONFIG_FLUSH_PAGE_ACCESSED is set to zero, the page will eventually
be flushed when the PTE is cleared or in flush_cache_page_if_present. The
_PAGE_ACCESSED bit is not used, so the problem is avoided.

The flush method can be selected using the CONFIG_FLUSH_PAGE_ACCESSED
define in cache.c. The default is 0. I didn't see a large difference
in performance.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.6+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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PA-RISC systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have had problems
with random segmentation faults for many years.  Systems with earlier
processors are much more stable.

Systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have a large L2 cache which
needs per page flushing for decent performance when a large range is
flushed. The combined cache in these systems is also more sensitive to
non-equivalent aliases than the caches in earlier systems.

The majority of random segmentation faults that I have looked at
appear to be memory corruption in memory allocated using mmap and
malloc.

My first attempt at fixing the random faults didn't work. On
reviewing the cache code, I realized that there were two issues
which the existing code didn't handle correctly. Both relate
to cache move-in. Another issue is that the present bit in PTEs
is racy.

1) PA-RISC caches have a mind of their own and they can speculatively
load data and instructions for a page as long as there is a entry in
the TLB for the page which allows move-in. TLBs are local to each
CPU. Thus, the TLB entry for a page must be purged before flushing
the page. This is particularly important on SMP systems.

In some of the flush routines, the flush routine would be called
and then the TLB entry would be purged. This was because the flush
routine needed the TLB entry to do the flush.

2) My initial approach to trying the fix the random faults was to
try and use flush_cache_page_if_present for all flush operations.
This actually made things worse and led to a couple of hardware
lockups. It finally dawned on me that some lines weren't being
flushed because the pte check code was racy. This resulted in
random inequivalent mappings to physical pages.

The __flush_cache_page tmpalias flush sets up its own TLB entry
and it doesn't need the existing TLB entry. As long as we can find
the pte pointer for the vm page, we can get the pfn and physical
address of the page. We can also purge the TLB entry for the page
before doing the flush. Further, __flush_cache_page uses a special
TLB entry that inhibits cache move-in.

When switching page mappings, we need to ensure that lines are
removed from the cache.  It is not sufficient to just flush the
lines to memory as they may come back.

This made it clear that we needed to implement all the required
flush operations using tmpalias routines. This includes flushes
for user and kernel pages.

After modifying the code to use tmpalias flushes, it became clear
that the random segmentation faults were not fully resolved. The
frequency of faults was worse on systems with a 64 MB L2 (PA8900)
and systems with more CPUs (rp4440).

The warning that I added to flush_cache_page_if_present to detect
pages that couldn't be flushed triggered frequently on some systems.

Helge and I looked at the pages that couldn't be flushed and found
that the PTE was either cleared or for a swap page. Ignoring pages
that were swapped out seemed okay but pages with cleared PTEs seemed
problematic.

I looked at routines related to pte_clear and noticed ptep_clear_flush.
The default implementation just flushes the TLB entry. However, it was
obvious that on parisc we need to flush the cache page as well. If
we don't flush the cache page, stale lines will be left in the cache
and cause random corruption. Once a PTE is cleared, there is no way
to find the physical address associated with the PTE and flush the
associated page at a later time.

I implemented an updated change with a parisc specific version of
ptep_clear_flush. It fixed the random data corruption on Helge's rp4440
and rp3440, as well as on my c8000.

At this point, I realized that I could restore the code where we only
flush in flush_cache_page_if_present if the page has been accessed.
However, for this, we also need to flush the cache when the accessed
bit is cleared in ptep_clear_flush_young to keep things synchronized.
The default implementation only flushes the TLB entry.

Other changes in this version are:

1) Implement parisc specific version of ptep_get. It's identical to
default but needed in arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h.
2) Revise parisc implementation of ptep_test_and_clear_young to use
ptep_get (READ_ONCE).
3) Drop parisc implementation of ptep_get_and_clear. We can use default.
4) Revise flush_kernel_vmap_range and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range to
use full data cache flush.
5) Move flush_cache_vmap and flush_cache_vunmap to cache.c. Handle
VM_IOREMAP case in flush_cache_vmap.

At this time, I don't know whether it is better to always flush when
the PTE present bit is set or when both the accessed and present bits
are set. The later saves flushing pages that haven't been accessed,
but we need to flush in ptep_clear_flush_young. It also needs a page
table lookup to find the PTE pointer. The lpa instruction only needs
a page table lookup when the PTE entry isn't in the TLB.

We don't atomically handle setting and clearing the _PAGE_ACCESSED bit.
If we miss an update, we may miss a flush and the cache may get corrupted.
Whether the current code is effectively atomic depends on process control.

When CONFIG_FLUSH_PAGE_ACCESSED is set to zero, the page will eventually
be flushed when the PTE is cleared or in flush_cache_page_if_present. The
_PAGE_ACCESSED bit is not used, so the problem is avoided.

The flush method can be selected using the CONFIG_FLUSH_PAGE_ACCESSED
define in cache.c. The default is 0. I didn't see a large difference
in performance.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.6+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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