Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] add locking around certain calls to map_pages_to_xen()

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/07/13 09:17, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While boot time calls don't need this, run time uses of the function
> which may result in L2 page tables getting populated need to be
> serialized to avoid two CPUs populating the same L2 (or L3) entry,
> overwriting each other's results.
>
> This fixes what would seem to be a regression from commit b0581b92
> ("x86: make map_domain_page_global() a simple wrapper around vmap()"),
> albeit that change only made more readily visible the already existing
> issue.
>
> The __init addition to memguard_init(), while seemingly unrelated,
> helps making obvious that this function's use of map_pages_to_xen() is
> a boot time only one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> v2: Latch system_state into a local variable, as suggested by Andrew
>     Cooper (in the hope that this might accelerate getting the patch in
>     to overcome the stage tester failures).
>
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c
> @@ -5758,13 +5758,34 @@ void destroy_xen_mappings(unsigned long 
>  void __set_fixmap(
>      enum fixed_addresses idx, unsigned long mfn, unsigned long flags)
>  {
> -    BUG_ON(idx >= __end_of_fixed_addresses);
> +    /*
> +     * As the fixmap area requires more than a single L2 entry, we need a 
> lock
> +     * to avoid races of map_pages_to_xen() populating those. There's no need
> +     * for this at boot time, and not doing so avoids needing to disable IRQs
> +     * while holding the lock.
> +     */
> +    static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock);
> +    bool_t locking = system_state > SYS_STATE_boot;
> +
> +    if ( locking )
> +       spin_lock(&lock);
>      map_pages_to_xen(fix_to_virt(idx), mfn, 1, flags);
> +    if ( locking )
> +        spin_unlock(&lock);
>  }
>  
>  void *__init arch_vmap_virt_end(void)
>  {
> -    return (void *)fix_to_virt(__end_of_fixed_addresses);
> +    /*
> +     * If the fixmap area required more than a single L3 entry, we'd need to
> +     * lock against vmap()'s calls to map_pages_to_xen(). Pre-populate the
> +     * L3 entry possibly shared with vmap(), and make sure we don't share an
> +     * L2 entry with it.
> +     */
> +    BUILD_BUG_ON(((FIXADDR_TOP - 1) ^ FIXADDR_START) >> L3_PAGETABLE_SHIFT);
> +    map_pages_to_xen(fix_to_virt(__end_of_fixed_addresses), 0, 1, 
> _PAGE_AVAIL);
> +    return (void *)(fix_to_virt(__end_of_fixed_addresses) &
> +                    (~0L << L2_PAGETABLE_SHIFT));
>  }
>  
>  void __iomem *ioremap(paddr_t pa, size_t len)
> @@ -6012,7 +6033,7 @@ void free_perdomain_mappings(struct doma
>  
>  #ifdef MEMORY_GUARD
>  
> -void memguard_init(void)
> +void __init memguard_init(void)
>  {
>      unsigned long start = max_t(unsigned long, xen_phys_start, 1UL << 20);
>      map_pages_to_xen(
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/mmconfig_64.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/mmconfig_64.c
> @@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ static void __iomem *mcfg_ioremap(const 
>                                    unsigned long idx, unsigned int prot)
>  {
>      unsigned long virt, size;
> +    int rc;
> +    static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock);
>  
>      virt = PCI_MCFG_VIRT_START + (idx << mmcfg_pci_segment_shift) +
>             (cfg->start_bus_number << 20);
> @@ -125,10 +127,13 @@ static void __iomem *mcfg_ioremap(const 
>      if (virt + size < virt || virt + size > PCI_MCFG_VIRT_END)
>          return NULL;
>  
> -    if (map_pages_to_xen(virt,
> -                         (cfg->address >> PAGE_SHIFT) +
> -                         (cfg->start_bus_number << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT)),
> -                         size >> PAGE_SHIFT, prot))
> +    spin_lock(&lock);
> +    rc = map_pages_to_xen(virt,
> +                          (cfg->address >> PAGE_SHIFT) +
> +                          (cfg->start_bus_number << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT)),
> +                          size >> PAGE_SHIFT, prot);
> +    spin_unlock(&lock);
> +    if ( rc )
>          return NULL;
>  
>      return (void __iomem *) virt;
> --- a/xen/common/vmap.c
> +++ b/xen/common/vmap.c
> @@ -179,7 +179,12 @@ void *__vmap(const unsigned long *mfn, u
>  
>      for ( ; va && nr--; ++mfn, cur += PAGE_SIZE * granularity )
>      {
> -        if ( map_pages_to_xen(cur, *mfn, granularity, flags) )
> +        int rc;
> +
> +        spin_lock(&vm_lock);
> +        rc = map_pages_to_xen(cur, *mfn, granularity, flags);
> +        spin_unlock(&vm_lock);
> +        if ( rc )
>          {
>              vunmap(va);
>              va = NULL;
> @@ -198,7 +203,9 @@ void vunmap(const void *va)
>  {
>      unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)va;
>  
> +    spin_lock(&vm_lock);
>      destroy_xen_mappings(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE * vm_size(va));
> +    spin_unlock(&vm_lock);
>      vm_free(va);
>  }
>  #endif
>
>


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