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Andy Lutomirski c7ad5ad297 x86/mm/64: Initialize CR4.PCIDE early
cpu_init() is weird: it's called rather late (after early
identification and after most MMU state is initialized) on the boot
CPU but is called extremely early (before identification) on secondary
CPUs.  It's called just late enough on the boot CPU that its CR4 value
isn't propagated to mmu_cr4_features.

Even if we put CR4.PCIDE into mmu_cr4_features, we'd hit two
problems.  First, we'd crash in the trampoline code.  That's
fixable, and I tried that.  It turns out that mmu_cr4_features is
totally ignored by secondary_start_64(), though, so even with the
trampoline code fixed, it wouldn't help.

This means that we don't currently have CR4.PCIDE reliably initialized
before we start playing with cpu_tlbstate.  This is very fragile and
tends to cause boot failures if I make even small changes to the TLB
handling code.

Make it more robust: initialize CR4.PCIDE earlier on the boot CPU
and propagate it to secondary CPUs in start_secondary().

( Yes, this is ugly.  I think we should have improved mmu_cr4_features
  to actually control CR4 during secondary bootup, but that would be
  fairly intrusive at this stage. )

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 660da7c922 ("x86/mm: Enable CR4.PCIDE on supported systems")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-09-13 09:54:43 +02:00
arch x86/mm/64: Initialize CR4.PCIDE early 2017-09-13 09:54:43 +02:00
block Merge branch 'for-4.14/block-postmerge' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-09-09 12:49:01 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.