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PPC: Fix large page support in TCG

PATCH In review Nathan Whitehorn 4 participants 9 messages Mar 3, 2012 – Mar 9, 2012

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PATCH 1/1 PPC: Fix large page support in TCG

Fix large page support in TCG. The old code would overwrite the large page table entry with the fake 4 KB
one generated here whenever the ref/change bits were updated, causing it to point to the wrong area of memory. Instead of creating a fake PTE, just update the real address at the end.

---
 target-ppc/helper.c |   11 +++++------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
target-ppc/helper.c +0 -0
index 928fbcf..0f5ad2e 100644
@@ -597,12 +597,6 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env, mmu_ctx_t *ctx,

int is_64b, int h,

                 pte1 = ldq_phys(env->htab_base + pteg_off + (i * 16) + 8);
             }

- /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
- * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
- if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
- pte1 |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))
- & TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
-
r = pte64_check(ctx, pte0, pte1, h, rw, type); LOG_MMU("Load pte from " TARGET_FMT_lx " => "
TARGET_FMT_lx " "

                     TARGET_FMT_lx " %d %d %d " TARGET_FMT_lx "\n",
@@ -678,6 +672,11 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env, mmu_ctx_t *ctx,
int is_64b, int h,
         }
     }

+ /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
+ * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
+ if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
+ ctx->raddr |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))

+ & TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
     return ret;

}

--
1.7.9

#1 lore raw

Am 03.03.2012 17:39, schrieb Nathan Whitehorn:

Quoted 7 lines

Fix large page support in TCG. The old code would overwrite the large page table entry with the fake 4 KB
one generated here whenever the ref/change bits were updated, causing it to point to the wrong area of memory. Instead of creating a fake PTE, just update the real address at the end.

cc'ing Alex and qemu-ppc.

/-F

Quoted 40 lines
---
 target-ppc/helper.c |   11 +++++------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
target-ppc/helper.c +0 -6
index 928fbcf..0f5ad2e 100644
@@ -597,12 +597,6 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env,
 mmu_ctx_t *ctx,
 int is_64b, int h,
                 pte1 = ldq_phys(env->htab_base + pteg_off + (i * 16) + 8);
             }
 
-            /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
-             * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
-            if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
-                pte1 |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))
- & TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
-
             r = pte64_check(ctx, pte0, pte1, h, rw, type);

LOG_MMU("Load pte from " TARGET_FMT_lx " => " TARGET_FMT_lx
" "

                     TARGET_FMT_lx " %d %d %d " TARGET_FMT_lx "\n",
target-ppc/helper.c +5 -0
@@ -678,6 +672,11 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env,
 mmu_ctx_t *ctx,
 int is_64b, int h,
         }
     }
 
+    /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
+     * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
+    if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
+       ctx->raddr |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))
+ & TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
     return ret;

}

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Quoted 9 lines · Andreas Färber

Am 03.03.2012 17:39, schrieb Nathan Whitehorn:

Quoted 7 lines

Fix large page support in TCG. The old code would overwrite the large page table entry with the fake 4 KB
one generated here whenever the ref/change bits were updated, causing it to point to the wrong area of memory. Instead of creating a fake PTE, just update the real address at the end.

cc'ing Alex and qemu-ppc.

David? Could you please ack?

Alex

Quoted 42 lines

/-F

Quoted 40 lines
---
  target-ppc/helper.c |   11 +++++------
  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
target-ppc/helper.c +0 -6
index 928fbcf..0f5ad2e 100644
@@ -597,12 +597,6 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env,
 mmu_ctx_t *ctx,
 int is_64b, int h,
                  pte1 = ldq_phys(env->htab_base + pteg_off + (i * 16) + 8);
              }
 
-            /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
-             * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
-            if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
-                pte1 |= (ctx->eaddr&  (( 1<<  target_page_bits ) - 1))
-&  TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
-
              r = pte64_check(ctx, pte0, pte1, h, rw, type);

LOG_MMU("Load pte from " TARGET_FMT_lx " => " TARGET_FMT_lx
""

                      TARGET_FMT_lx " %d %d %d " TARGET_FMT_lx "\n",
target-ppc/helper.c +5 -0
@@ -678,6 +672,11 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env,
 mmu_ctx_t *ctx,
 int is_64b, int h,
          }
      }
 
+    /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
+     * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
+    if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
+       ctx->raddr |= (ctx->eaddr&  (( 1<<  target_page_bits ) - 1))
+&  TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
      return ret;
  }
Signature · 1 line
1.7.9
#3 lore raw
In reply to Nathan Whitehorn
Quoted 7 lines · Nathan Whitehorn

Fix large page support in TCG. The old code would overwrite the large page table entry with the fake 4 KB
one generated here whenever the ref/change bits were updated, causing it to point to the wrong area of memory. Instead of creating a fake PTE, just update the real address at the end.

Hrm. This looks like a cleaner way of handling things, but I don't really follow what exactly was going wrong in the old way. Can you spell out in more detail where the modified pte1 value caused problems?

Quoted 38 lines
---
 target-ppc/helper.c |   11 +++++------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
target-ppc/helper.c +0 -6
index 928fbcf..0f5ad2e 100644
@@ -597,12 +597,6 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env,
 mmu_ctx_t *ctx,
 int is_64b, int h,
                 pte1 = ldq_phys(env->htab_base + pteg_off + (i * 16) + 8);
             }
 
-            /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
-             * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
-            if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
-                pte1 |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))
- & TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
-
             r = pte64_check(ctx, pte0, pte1, h, rw, type);

LOG_MMU("Load pte from " TARGET_FMT_lx " => "
TARGET_FMT_lx " "

                     TARGET_FMT_lx " %d %d %d " TARGET_FMT_lx "\n",
target-ppc/helper.c +5 -0
@@ -678,6 +672,11 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env,
 mmu_ctx_t *ctx,
 int is_64b, int h,
         }
     }
 
+    /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
+     * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
+    if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
+       ctx->raddr |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))
+ & TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
     return ret;

}

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David Gibson			| I'll have my music baroque, and my code
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au	| minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ _other_
				| _way_ _around_!
http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
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Quoted 7 lines · David Gibson
Quoted 6 lines · Nathan Whitehorn

Fix large page support in TCG. The old code would overwrite the large page table entry with the fake 4 KB
one generated here whenever the ref/change bits were updated, causing it to point to the wrong area of memory. Instead of creating a fake PTE, just update the real address at the end.

Quoted 6 lines
Quoted 1 line

Hrm. This looks like a cleaner way of handling things, but I don't really follow what exactly was going wrong in the old way. Can you spell out in more detail where the modified pte1 value caused problems?

The problem was that pte1 would get extra bits added into it in _find_pte() to produce a new, fake 4KB page table entry. When the ref/change bits were updated, pte1 would be written back to the page table -- *including* the bits added to make a fake 4K page. At the next access, since this function does not clear the low bits of large pages (which is probably itself a bug) when it interprets them, the generated address would be the large page base, ored with the large page remainder for this access, ored with the large page remainder from the *previous* access, etc. and you would get a progressively more bogus address in the end. -Nathan

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Quoted 41 lines

---
target-ppc/helper.c | 11 +++++------

1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
target-ppc/helper.c +0 -4
index 928fbcf..0f5ad2e 100644
@@ -597,12 +597,6 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env,
 mmu_ctx_t *ctx,
 int is_64b, int h,
                pte1 = ldq_phys(env->htab_base + pteg_off + (i *  
 16) + 8);
            }
 
-            /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
-             * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
-            if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
-                pte1 |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) -  

1))
- & TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
-
r = pte64_check(ctx, pte0, pte1, h, rw, type); LOG_MMU("Load pte from " TARGET_FMT_lx " => "
TARGET_FMT_lx " "

                    TARGET_FMT_lx " %d %d %d " TARGET_FMT_lx "\n",
target-ppc/helper.c +5 -0
@@ -678,6 +672,11 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env,
 mmu_ctx_t *ctx,
 int is_64b, int h,
        }
    }
 
+    /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
+     * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
+    if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
+       ctx->raddr |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))
+ & TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
    return ret;

}

Signature · 4 lines
David Gibson			| I'll have my music baroque, and my code
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au	| minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ _other_
				| _way_ _around_!
http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
Acked-by
#5 lore raw
Quoted 17 lines · Nathan Whitehorn
Quoted 7 lines · David Gibson
Quoted 6 lines · Nathan Whitehorn

Fix large page support in TCG. The old code would overwrite the large page table entry with the fake 4 KB
one generated here whenever the ref/change bits were updated, causing it to point to the wrong area of memory. Instead of creating a fake PTE, just update the real address at the end.

Quoted 6 lines
Quoted 1 line

Hrm. This looks like a cleaner way of handling things, but I don't really follow what exactly was going wrong in the old way. Can you spell out in more detail where the modified pte1 value caused problems?

Quoted 10 lines

The problem was that pte1 would get extra bits added into it in _find_pte() to produce a new, fake 4KB page table entry. When the ref/change bits were updated, pte1 would be written back to the page table -- *including* the bits added to make a fake 4K page. At the next access, since this function does not clear the low bits of large pages (which is probably itself a bug) when it interprets them, the generated address would be the large page base, ored with the large page remainder for this access, ored with the large page remainder from the *previous* access, etc. and you would get a progressively more bogus address in the end.

Ah, yes, I see it now. Good catch.

Signature · 4 lines
David Gibson			| I'll have my music baroque, and my code
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au	| minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ _other_
				| _way_ _around_!
http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
#6 lore raw
Quoted 29 lines · David Gibson
Quoted 17 lines · Nathan Whitehorn
Quoted 7 lines · David Gibson
Quoted 6 lines · Nathan Whitehorn

Fix large page support in TCG. The old code would overwrite the large page table entry with the fake 4 KB
one generated here whenever the ref/change bits were updated, causing it to point to the wrong area of memory. Instead of creating a fake PTE, just update the real address at the end.

Quoted 6 lines
Quoted 1 line

Hrm. This looks like a cleaner way of handling things, but I don't really follow what exactly was going wrong in the old way. Can you spell out in more detail where the modified pte1 value caused problems?

Quoted 10 lines

The problem was that pte1 would get extra bits added into it in _find_pte() to produce a new, fake 4KB page table entry. When the ref/change bits were updated, pte1 would be written back to the page table -- *including* the bits added to make a fake 4K page. At the next access, since this function does not clear the low bits of large pages (which is probably itself a bug) when it interprets them, the generated address would be the large page base, ored with the large page remainder for this access, ored with the large page remainder from the *previous* access, etc. and you would get a progressively more bogus address in the end.

Quoted 3 lines

Ah, yes, I see it now. Good catch.

Hrm - the patch doesn't apply for me. Could you please resend as something that's applyable? :) Also, please make sure to always CC qemu-ppc on ppc patches, otherwise there's a good chance they slip off my radar.

Alex

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Quoted 27 lines · Alexander Graf
Quoted 25 lines · David Gibson
Quoted 24 lines · Nathan Whitehorn
Quoted 7 lines · David Gibson
Quoted 6 lines · Nathan Whitehorn

Fix large page support in TCG. The old code would overwrite the large page table entry with the fake 4 KB
one generated here whenever the ref/change bits were updated, causing it to point to the wrong area of memory. Instead of creating a fake PTE, just update the real address at the end.

Quoted 5 lines
Quoted 1 line

Hrm. This looks like a cleaner way of handling things, but I don't really follow what exactly was going wrong in the old way. Can you spell out in more detail where the modified pte1 value caused problems?

The problem was that pte1 would get extra bits added into it in _find_pte() to produce a new, fake 4KB page table entry. When the ref/change bits were updated, pte1 would be written back to the page table -- *including* the bits added to make a fake 4K page. At the next access, since this function does not clear the low bits of large pages (which is probably itself a bug) when it interprets them, the generated address would be the large page base, ored with the large page remainder for this access, ored with the large page remainder from the *previous* access, etc. and you would get a progressively more bogus address in the end.

Quoted 9 lines
Quoted 3 lines

Ah, yes, I see it now. Good catch.

Hrm - the patch doesn't apply for me. Could you please resend as something that's applyable? :) Also, please make sure to always CC qemu-ppc on ppc patches, otherwise there's a good chance they slip off my radar.

Alex

Weird. I've provided it as an attachment, which should hopefully work this time. -Nathan

Fix large page support in TCG. The old code would overwrite the large page table entry with the fake 4 KB one generated here whenever the ref/change bits were updated, causing it to point to the wrong area of memory.

---
 target-ppc/helper.c |   11 +++++------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
target-ppc/helper.c +5 -6
index 928fbcf..0f5ad2e 100644
@@ -597,12 +597,6 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env, mmu_ctx_t *ctx, int is_64b, int h,
                 pte1 = ldq_phys(env->htab_base + pteg_off + (i * 16) + 8);
             }
 
-            /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
-             * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
-            if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
-                pte1 |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))
-                        & TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
-
             r = pte64_check(ctx, pte0, pte1, h, rw, type);
             LOG_MMU("Load pte from " TARGET_FMT_lx " => " TARGET_FMT_lx " "
                     TARGET_FMT_lx " %d %d %d " TARGET_FMT_lx "\n",
@@ -678,6 +672,11 @@ static inline int _find_pte(CPUState *env, mmu_ctx_t *ctx, int is_64b, int h,
         }
     }
 
+    /* We have a TLB that saves 4K pages, so let's
+     * split a huge page to 4k chunks */
+    if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
+	ctx->raddr |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))
+		& TARGET_PAGE_MASK;
     return ret;
 }
 
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#8 lore raw
Quoted 35 lines · Nathan Whitehorn
Quoted 34 lines · Alexander Graf
Quoted 25 lines · David Gibson
Quoted 14 lines · Nathan Whitehorn
Quoted 7 lines · David Gibson
Quoted 6 lines · Nathan Whitehorn

Fix large page support in TCG. The old code would overwrite the large page table entry with the fake 4 KB
one generated here whenever the ref/change bits were updated, causing it to point to the wrong area of memory. Instead of creating a fake PTE, just update the real address at the end.

Quoted 5 lines
Quoted 1 line

Hrm. This looks like a cleaner way of handling things, but I don't really follow what exactly was going wrong in the old way. Can you spell out in more detail where the modified pte1 value caused problems?

Quoted 10 lines

The problem was that pte1 would get extra bits added into it in _find_pte() to produce a new, fake 4KB page table entry. When the ref/change bits were updated, pte1 would be written back to the page table -- *including* the bits added to make a fake 4K page. At the next access, since this function does not clear the low bits of large pages (which is probably itself a bug) when it interprets them, the generated address would be the large page base, ored with the large page remainder for this access, ored with the large page remainder from the *previous* access, etc. and you would get a progressively more bogus address in the end.

Quoted 3 lines

Ah, yes, I see it now. Good catch.

Hrm - the patch doesn't apply for me. Could you please resend as something that's applyable? :) Also, please make sure to always CC qemu-ppc on ppc patches, otherwise there's a good chance they slip off my radar.

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Quoted 2 lines

Alex

Weird. I've provided it as an attachment, which should hopefully work this time. -Nathan

<0005-Fix-large-page-support-in-TCG.-The-old-code-would-ov.patch>

Ok, thanks. I fixed the checkpatch errors:

WARNING: braces {} are necessary for all arms of this statement #86: FILE: target-ppc/helper.c:677:
+ if (target_page_bits != TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
[...]

ERROR: code indent should never use tabs
#87: FILE: target-ppc/helper.c:678:
+^Ictx->raddr |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))$

ERROR: space prohibited after that open parenthesis '(' #87: FILE: target-ppc/helper.c:678:
+ ctx->raddr |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))

ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')' #87: FILE: target-ppc/helper.c:678:
+ ctx->raddr |= (ctx->eaddr & (( 1 << target_page_bits ) - 1))

ERROR: code indent should never use tabs
#88: FILE: target-ppc/helper.c:679:
+^I^I& TARGET_PAGE_MASK;$

total: 4 errors, 1 warnings, 23 lines checked

Your patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

and applied the patch to ppc-next.

Alex