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From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup•eu>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel•org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>,
	PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger•kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	peterz@infradead•org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure on powerpc 8xx with 16k pages
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 13:55:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <96fdc23c-ca08-6b6a-ebdd-23cedfada77d@csgroup.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200604111723.GA1267@willie-the-truck>



On 06/04/2020 11:17 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi, [+Peter]
> 
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 10:48:03AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> Using mpc885_ads_defconfig with CONFIG_PPC_16K_PAGES instead of
>> CONFIG_PPC_4K_PAGES, getting the following build failure:
>>
>>    CC      mm/gup.o
>> In file included from ./include/linux/kernel.h:11:0,
>>                   from mm/gup.c:2:
>> In function 'gup_hugepte.constprop',
>>      inlined from 'gup_huge_pd.isra.78' at mm/gup.c:2465:8:
>> ./include/linux/compiler.h:392:38: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_257'
>> declared with attribute error: Unsupported access size for
>> {READ,WRITE}_ONCE().
>>    _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
>>                                        ^
>> ./include/linux/compiler.h:373:4: note: in definition of macro
>> '__compiletime_assert'
>>      prefix ## suffix();    \
>>      ^
>> ./include/linux/compiler.h:392:2: note: in expansion of macro
>> '_compiletime_assert'
>>    _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
>>    ^
>> ./include/linux/compiler.h:405:2: note: in expansion of macro
>> 'compiletime_assert'
>>    compiletime_assert(__native_word(t) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(long long), \
>>    ^
>> ./include/linux/compiler.h:291:2: note: in expansion of macro
>> 'compiletime_assert_rwonce_type'
>>    compiletime_assert_rwonce_type(x);    \
>>    ^
>> mm/gup.c:2428:8: note: in expansion of macro 'READ_ONCE'
>>    pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
>>          ^
>> In function 'gup_get_pte',
>>      inlined from 'gup_pte_range' at mm/gup.c:2228:9,
>>      inlined from 'gup_pmd_range' at mm/gup.c:2613:15,
>>      inlined from 'gup_pud_range' at mm/gup.c:2641:15,
>>      inlined from 'gup_p4d_range' at mm/gup.c:2666:15,
>>      inlined from 'gup_pgd_range' at mm/gup.c:2694:15,
>>      inlined from 'internal_get_user_pages_fast' at mm/gup.c:2785:3:
> 
> At first glance, this looks like a real bug in the 16k page code -- you're
> loading the pte non-atomically on the fast GUP path and so you're prone to
> tearing, which probably isn't what you want. For a short-term hack, I'd
> suggest having CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP depend on !CONFIG_PPC_16K_PAGES, but if
> you want to support this them you'll need to rework your pte_t so that it
> can be loaded atomically.

What do you mean by *rework* pte_t ?
pte are 32 bits words in size and are spread every 4 words in memory. 
Therefore pte_t has to be 128 bits because unlike huge_pte handling 
which always use huge_pte_offset() in loops, many many places in the 
kernel do pte++, so we need the pte type to be the size of the interval 
from one pte to the next one.

Christophe

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-04 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-04 10:48 linux-next: build failure on powerpc 8xx with 16k pages Christophe Leroy
2020-06-04 11:17 ` Will Deacon
2020-06-04 12:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-04 14:35     ` Christophe Leroy
2020-06-04 16:10       ` Will Deacon
2020-06-04 13:55   ` Christophe Leroy [this message]

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