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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 2/2] xen/arm: fix mask calculation in pdx_init_mask



Hi,

On 6/17/19 7:50 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
The mask calculation in pdx_init_mask is wrong when the first bank
starts at address 0x0. The reason is that pdx_init_mask will do '0 - 1'
causing an underflow. As a result, the mask becomes 0xffffffffffffffff
which is the biggest possible mask and ends up causing a significant
memory waste in the frametable size computation.

For instance, on platforms that have a low memory bank starting at 0x0
and a high memory bank, the frametable will end up covering all the
holes in between.

The purpose of the mask is to be passed as a parameter to
pfn_pdx_hole_setup, which based on the mask parameter calculates
pfn_pdx_hole_shift, pfn_pdx_bottom_mask, etc. which are actually the
important masks for frametable initialization later on.

pfn_pdx_hole_setup never compresses addresses below MAX_ORDER bits (1GB
on ARM). Thus, it is safe to initialize mask passing 1ULL << (MAX_ORDER
+ PAGE_SHIFT) as start address to pdx_init_mask.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefanos@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>

Ideally, I would like an ack from Andrew or Jan.

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---

Changes in v4:
- use uint64_t
- single line comment code style

Changes in v3:
- improve in-code comments

Unchanged in v3:
- (u64)1

Changes in v2:
- update commit message
- add in-code comments regarding update sites
- improve in-code comments
- move the mask initialization changes to pdx_init_mask
---
  xen/arch/arm/setup.c | 9 ++++++++-
  xen/common/pdx.c     | 7 ++++++-
  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/setup.c b/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
index b03e7ac330..b0af90e5bf 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
@@ -483,7 +483,14 @@ static void __init init_pdx(void)
  {
      paddr_t bank_start, bank_size, bank_end;
- uint64_t mask = pdx_init_mask(bootinfo.mem.bank[0].start);
+    /*
+     * Arm does not have any restrictions on the bits to compress. Pass 0 to
+     * let the common code further restrict the mask.
+     *
+     * If the logic changes in pfn_pdx_hole_setup we might have to
+     * update this function too.
+     */
+    uint64_t mask = pdx_init_mask(0x0);
      int bank;
for ( bank = 0 ; bank < bootinfo.mem.nr_banks; bank++ )
diff --git a/xen/common/pdx.c b/xen/common/pdx.c
index 8356f03ce8..9990b94f73 100644
--- a/xen/common/pdx.c
+++ b/xen/common/pdx.c
@@ -50,9 +50,11 @@ static u64 __init fill_mask(u64 mask)
      return mask;
  }
+/* We don't compress the first MAX_ORDER bit of the addresses. */
  uint64_t __init pdx_init_mask(uint64_t base_addr)
  {
-    return fill_mask(base_addr - 1);
+    return fill_mask(max(base_addr,
+                         (uint64_t)1 << (MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT)) - 1);
  }
u64 __init pdx_region_mask(u64 base, u64 len)
@@ -80,6 +82,9 @@ void __init pfn_pdx_hole_setup(unsigned long mask)
       * This guarantees that page-pointer arithmetic remains valid within
       * contiguous aligned ranges of 2^MAX_ORDER pages. Among others, our
       * buddy allocator relies on this assumption.
+     *
+     * If the logic changes here, we might have to update the ARM specific
+     * init_pdx too.
       */
      for ( j = MAX_ORDER-1; ; )
      {


--
Julien Grall

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