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implement flush_cache_vmap for RISC-V

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Series implement flush_cache_vmap for RISC-V | expand

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Jiuyang Liu April 12, 2021, 12:05 a.m. UTC
This patch implements flush_cache_vmap for RISC-V, since it modifies PTE.
Without this patch, SFENCE.VMA won't be added to related codes, which
might introduce a bug in the out-of-order micro-architecture
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Comments

Jisheng Zhang April 12, 2021, 7:08 a.m. UTC | #1
Hi Jiuyang,

On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:05:30 +0000 Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me> wrote:


> 
> This patch implements flush_cache_vmap for RISC-V, since it modifies PTE.
> Without this patch, SFENCE.VMA won't be added to related codes, which
> might introduce a bug in the out-of-order micro-architecture
> implementations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me>
> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>

IIRC, Palmer hasn't given this Reviewed-by tag.

> ---

Could you plz add version and changes? IIRC, this is the v3.

>  arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> index 23ff70350992..3fd528badc35 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> @@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ static inline void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
>  #define flush_icache_user_page(vma, pg, addr, len) \
>         flush_icache_mm(vma->vm_mm, 0)
> 
> +/*
> + * flush_cache_vmap is invoked after map_kernel_range() has installed the page
> + * table entries, which modifies PTE, SFENCE.VMA should be inserted.

Just my humble opinion, flush_cache_vmap() may not be necessary. vmalloc_fault
can take care of this, and finally sfence.vma is inserted in related path.

Regards

> + */
> +#define flush_cache_vmap(start, end) flush_tlb_all()
> +
>  #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
> 
>  #define flush_icache_all() local_flush_icache_all()
> --
> 2.31.1
Alexandre Ghiti April 14, 2021, 7:03 a.m. UTC | #2
Hi,

Le 4/12/21 à 3:08 AM, Jisheng Zhang a écrit :
> Hi Jiuyang,
> 
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:05:30 +0000 Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me> wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>> This patch implements flush_cache_vmap for RISC-V, since it modifies PTE.
>> Without this patch, SFENCE.VMA won't be added to related codes, which
>> might introduce a bug in the out-of-order micro-architecture
>> implementations.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me>
>> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
>> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
> 
> IIRC, Palmer hasn't given this Reviewed-by tag.
> 
>> ---
> 
> Could you plz add version and changes? IIRC, this is the v3.
> 
>>   arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 6 ++++++
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
>> index 23ff70350992..3fd528badc35 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
>> @@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ static inline void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
>>   #define flush_icache_user_page(vma, pg, addr, len) \
>>          flush_icache_mm(vma->vm_mm, 0)
>>
>> +/*
>> + * flush_cache_vmap is invoked after map_kernel_range() has installed the page
>> + * table entries, which modifies PTE, SFENCE.VMA should be inserted.
> 
> Just my humble opinion, flush_cache_vmap() may not be necessary. vmalloc_fault
> can take care of this, and finally sfence.vma is inserted in related path.
> 


I believe Palmer and Jisheng are right, my initial proposal to implement 
flush_cache_vmap is wrong.

But then, Jiuyang should not have noticed any problem here, so what's 
wrong? @Jiuyang: Does implementing flush_cache_vmap fix your issue?

And regarding flush_cache_vunmap, from Jisheng call stack, it seems also 
not necessary.

@Jiuyang: Can you tell us more about what you noticed?


> Regards
> 
>> + */
>> +#define flush_cache_vmap(start, end) flush_tlb_all()
>> +
>>   #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
>>
>>   #define flush_icache_all() local_flush_icache_all()
>> --
>> 2.31.1
> 
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>
Jiuyang Liu April 14, 2021, 9:16 a.m. UTC | #3
On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:03:13 AM UTC you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le 4/12/21 à 3:08 AM, Jisheng Zhang a écrit :
> > Hi Jiuyang,
> > 
> > On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:05:30 +0000 Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me> wrote:
> >> This patch implements flush_cache_vmap for RISC-V, since it modifies PTE.
> >> Without this patch, SFENCE.VMA won't be added to related codes, which
> >> might introduce a bug in the out-of-order micro-architecture
> >> implementations.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me>
> >> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
> >> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
> > 
> > IIRC, Palmer hasn't given this Reviewed-by tag.
> > 
> >> ---
> > 
> > Could you plz add version and changes? IIRC, this is the v3.
> > 
> >>   arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 6 ++++++
> >>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> >> b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h index 23ff70350992..3fd528badc35
> >> 100644
> >> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> >> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> >> @@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ static inline void flush_dcache_page(struct page
> >> *page)
> >> 
> >>   #define flush_icache_user_page(vma, pg, addr, len) \
> >>   
> >>          flush_icache_mm(vma->vm_mm, 0)
> >> 
> >> +/*
> >> + * flush_cache_vmap is invoked after map_kernel_range() has installed
> >> the page + * table entries, which modifies PTE, SFENCE.VMA should be
> >> inserted.> 
> > Just my humble opinion, flush_cache_vmap() may not be necessary.
> > vmalloc_fault can take care of this, and finally sfence.vma is inserted
> > in related path.
> I believe Palmer and Jisheng are right, my initial proposal to implement
> flush_cache_vmap is wrong.
> 
> But then, Jiuyang should not have noticed any problem here, so what's
> wrong? @Jiuyang: Does implementing flush_cache_vmap fix your issue?
Yes, I just checked this today, it did fix our issue.
But I'm happy to rework on this, thanks for your help! This week I will try to 
trace wave of our core, and give a more detail email then.
> And regarding flush_cache_vunmap, from Jisheng call stack, it seems also
> not necessary.
> 
> @Jiuyang: Can you tell us more about what you noticed?
> 
> > Regards
> > 
> >> + */
> >> +#define flush_cache_vmap(start, end) flush_tlb_all()
> >> +
> >> 
> >>   #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
> >>   
> >>   #define flush_icache_all() local_flush_icache_all()
> >> 
> >> --
> >> 2.31.1
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > linux-riscv mailing list
> > linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
> > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv

Thanks,
Jiuyang
Palmer Dabbelt April 23, 2021, 4:39 a.m. UTC | #4
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:03:13 PDT (-0700), alex@ghiti.fr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 4/12/21 à 3:08 AM, Jisheng Zhang a écrit :
>> Hi Jiuyang,
>>
>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:05:30 +0000 Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> This patch implements flush_cache_vmap for RISC-V, since it modifies PTE.
>>> Without this patch, SFENCE.VMA won't be added to related codes, which
>>> might introduce a bug in the out-of-order micro-architecture
>>> implementations.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me>
>>> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
>>> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
>>
>> IIRC, Palmer hasn't given this Reviewed-by tag.

Yes.  In fact, I gave the opposite of a RB: we shouldn't have this, at 
least without some demonstration of a meaningful performance improvement 
and likely with a host of other changes to change the whole port over to 
avoid relying on traps to handle new mappings.  I really don't think 
that's a sane way to go, as the theory is that reasonable 
microarchitectures won't have big windows over which these faults can 
occur so there won't be that many of them.  If it ends up being an issue 
on real hardware we can try and sort something out, but it's going to be 
a lot of work as we'll need to avoid hurting performance on 
implementations that don't make invalid mappings visible often.

>>
>>> ---
>>
>> Could you plz add version and changes? IIRC, this is the v3.
>>
>>>   arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 6 ++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
>>> index 23ff70350992..3fd528badc35 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
>>> @@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ static inline void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
>>>   #define flush_icache_user_page(vma, pg, addr, len) \
>>>          flush_icache_mm(vma->vm_mm, 0)
>>>
>>> +/*
>>> + * flush_cache_vmap is invoked after map_kernel_range() has installed the page
>>> + * table entries, which modifies PTE, SFENCE.VMA should be inserted.
>>
>> Just my humble opinion, flush_cache_vmap() may not be necessary. vmalloc_fault
>> can take care of this, and finally sfence.vma is inserted in related path.
>>
>
>
> I believe Palmer and Jisheng are right, my initial proposal to implement
> flush_cache_vmap is wrong.
>
> But then, Jiuyang should not have noticed any problem here, so what's
> wrong? @Jiuyang: Does implementing flush_cache_vmap fix your issue?
>
> And regarding flush_cache_vunmap, from Jisheng call stack, it seems also
> not necessary.

FWIW: I still think that flush_cache_vunmap() is necessary -- we don't 
have any other way to guarantee that mapping isn't visible.  Implementing 
flush_cache_vmap() could work around the real bug of lacking 
flush_cache_vunmap(), as we'd see stale mappings.

That said, it could just be covering up some other bug.  Wouldn't be 
surprised if it's a bug in our port, but this is the sort of thing that 
could also be a hardware bug of some sort.

>
> @Jiuyang: Can you tell us more about what you noticed?
>
>
>> Regards
>>
>>> + */
>>> +#define flush_cache_vmap(start, end) flush_tlb_all()
>>> +
>>>   #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
>>>
>>>   #define flush_icache_all() local_flush_icache_all()
>>> --
>>> 2.31.1
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv
>>
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 23ff70350992..3fd528badc35 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@  static inline void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
 #define flush_icache_user_page(vma, pg, addr, len) \
 	flush_icache_mm(vma->vm_mm, 0)
 
+/*
+ * flush_cache_vmap is invoked after map_kernel_range() has installed the page
+ * table entries, which modifies PTE, SFENCE.VMA should be inserted.
+ */
+#define flush_cache_vmap(start, end) flush_tlb_all()
+
 #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
 
 #define flush_icache_all() local_flush_icache_all()