Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/32s: fix BATs setting with CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> writes:
> Serge reported some crashes with CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX enabled
> on a book3s32 machine.
>
> Analysis shows two issues:
> - BATs addresses and sizes are not properly aligned.
> - There is a gap between the last address covered by BATs and the
> first address covered by pages.
>
> Memory mapped with DBATs:
> 0: 0xc0000000-0xc07fffff 0x00000000 Kernel RO coherent
> 1: 0xc0800000-0xc0bfffff 0x00800000 Kernel RO coherent
> 2: 0xc0c00000-0xc13fffff 0x00c00000 Kernel RW coherent
> 3: 0xc1400000-0xc23fffff 0x01400000 Kernel RW coherent
> 4: 0xc2400000-0xc43fffff 0x02400000 Kernel RW coherent
> 5: 0xc4400000-0xc83fffff 0x04400000 Kernel RW coherent
> 6: 0xc8400000-0xd03fffff 0x08400000 Kernel RW coherent
> 7: 0xd0400000-0xe03fffff 0x10400000 Kernel RW coherent
>
> Memory mapped with pages:
> 0xe1000000-0xefffffff  0x21000000       240M        rw       present           dirty  accessed
>
> This patch fixes both issues. With the patch, we get the following
> which is as expected:
>
> Memory mapped with DBATs:
> 0: 0xc0000000-0xc07fffff 0x00000000 Kernel RO coherent
> 1: 0xc0800000-0xc0bfffff 0x00800000 Kernel RO coherent
> 2: 0xc0c00000-0xc0ffffff 0x00c00000 Kernel RW coherent
> 3: 0xc1000000-0xc1ffffff 0x01000000 Kernel RW coherent
> 4: 0xc2000000-0xc3ffffff 0x02000000 Kernel RW coherent
> 5: 0xc4000000-0xc7ffffff 0x04000000 Kernel RW coherent
> 6: 0xc8000000-0xcfffffff 0x08000000 Kernel RW coherent
> 7: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff 0x10000000 Kernel RW coherent
>
> Memory mapped with pages:
> 0xe0000000-0xefffffff  0x20000000       256M        rw       present           dirty  accessed
>
> Reported-by: Serge Belyshev <belyshev@depni.sinp.msu.ru>
> Fixes: 63b2bc619565 ("powerpc/mm/32s: Use BATs for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

I could probably still get this into v5.1 if you're confident it's a
good fix.

cheers