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x86/mm: Ignore A/D bits in pte/pmd/pud_none()

The erratum we are fixing here can lead to stray setting of the
A and D bits. That means that a pte that we cleared might
suddenly have A/D set. So, stop considering those bits when
determining if a pte is pte_none(). The same goes for the
other pmd_none() and pud_none(). pgd_none() can be skipped
because it is not affected; we do not use PGD entries for
anything other than pagetables on affected configurations.

This adds a tiny amount of overhead to all pte_none() checks.
I doubt we'll be able to measure it anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: mhocko@suse.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160708001912.5216F89C@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Dave Hansen and committed by
Ingo Molnar
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arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
··· 480 480 481 481 static inline int pte_none(pte_t pte) 482 482 { 483 - return !pte.pte; 483 + return !(pte.pte & ~(_PAGE_KNL_ERRATUM_MASK)); 484 484 } 485 485 486 486 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SAME ··· 552 552 { 553 553 /* Only check low word on 32-bit platforms, since it might be 554 554 out of sync with upper half. */ 555 - return (unsigned long)native_pmd_val(pmd) == 0; 555 + unsigned long val = native_pmd_val(pmd); 556 + return (val & ~_PAGE_KNL_ERRATUM_MASK) == 0; 556 557 } 557 558 558 559 static inline unsigned long pmd_page_vaddr(pmd_t pmd) ··· 617 616 #if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2 618 617 static inline int pud_none(pud_t pud) 619 618 { 620 - return native_pud_val(pud) == 0; 619 + return (native_pud_val(pud) & ~(_PAGE_KNL_ERRATUM_MASK)) == 0; 621 620 } 622 621 623 622 static inline int pud_present(pud_t pud) ··· 695 694 696 695 static inline int pgd_none(pgd_t pgd) 697 696 { 697 + /* 698 + * There is no need to do a workaround for the KNL stray 699 + * A/D bit erratum here. PGDs only point to page tables 700 + * except on 32-bit non-PAE which is not supported on 701 + * KNL. 702 + */ 698 703 return !native_pgd_val(pgd); 699 704 } 700 705 #endif /* CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 3 */
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arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
··· 70 70 _PAGE_PKEY_BIT2 | \ 71 71 _PAGE_PKEY_BIT3) 72 72 73 + #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_X86_PAE) 74 + #define _PAGE_KNL_ERRATUM_MASK (_PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ACCESSED) 75 + #else 76 + #define _PAGE_KNL_ERRATUM_MASK 0 77 + #endif 78 + 73 79 #ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK 74 80 #define _PAGE_HIDDEN (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_HIDDEN) 75 81 #else