mm: add a call to flush_cache_vmap() in vmap_pfn()
authorAlexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Wed, 9 Aug 2023 16:46:33 +0000 (18:46 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:07:21 +0000 (13:07 -0700)
commita50420c79731fc5cf27ad43719c1091e842a2606
tree2c97e31f1427258421b2ad629a948246998bf14d
parent1738b949625c7e17a454b25de33f1f415da3db69
mm: add a call to flush_cache_vmap() in vmap_pfn()

flush_cache_vmap() must be called after new vmalloc mappings are installed
in the page table in order to allow architectures to make sure the new
mapping is visible.

It could lead to a panic since on some architectures (like powerpc),
the page table walker could see the wrong pte value and trigger a
spurious page fault that can not be resolved (see commit f1cb8f9beba8
("powerpc/64s/radix: avoid ptesync after set_pte and
ptep_set_access_flags")).

But actually the patch is aiming at riscv: the riscv specification
allows the caching of invalid entries in the TLB, and since we recently
removed the vmalloc page fault handling, we now need to emit a tlb
shootdown whenever a new vmalloc mapping is emitted
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230725132246.817726-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com/).
That's a temporary solution, there are ways to avoid that :)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230809164633.1556126-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Fixes: 3e9a9e256b1e ("mm: add a vmap_pfn function")
Reported-by: Dylan Jhong <dylan@andestech.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/ZMytNY2J8iyjbPPy@atctrx.andestech.com/
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Dylan Jhong <dylan@andestech.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c