Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jan 2018 20:27:32 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: correct section for cpu_tss_rw? |
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > (emailing the folks listed from running `./scripts/get_maintainer.pl > -f` on arch/x86/kernel/process.c, arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h, > and include/linux/percpu-defs.h) > > Clang emits the following warning: > > arch/x86/kernel/process.c:50:11: warning: section does not match > previous declaration [-Wsection] > __visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, cpu_tss_rw) = { > ^ > ./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:144:2: note: expanded from macro > 'DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED' > DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION) \ > ^ > ./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:104:2: note: expanded from macro > 'DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION' > __PCPU_ATTRS(sec) PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES \ > ^ > ./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:49:26: note: expanded from macro '__PCPU_ATTRS' > __percpu __attribute__((section(PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION sec))) \ > ^ > ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:365:1: note: previous attribute is here > DECLARE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, cpu_tss_rw); > ^ > ./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:159:2: note: expanded from macro > 'DECLARE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED' > DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..page_aligned") \ > ^ > ./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:101:9: note: expanded from macro > 'DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION' > extern __PCPU_ATTRS(sec) __typeof__(type) name > ^ > ./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:49:26: note: expanded from macro '__PCPU_ATTRS' > __percpu __attribute__((section(PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION sec))) \ > ^ > > it seems that from commit c482feefe1a ("x86/entry/64: Make > cpu_entry_area.tss read-only") that cpu_tss_rw is declared but then > defined in two different sections. (Though, it looks like this issue > predates that commit). > > It seems that cpu_tss_rw is defined as SHARED_ALIGNED, but then > declared as PAGE_ALIGNED. Should be an easy fix (that I'm happy to > author), but what section *should* cpu_tss_rw be in (SHARED_ALIGNED or > PAGE_ALIGNED)? That affects whether I fix the declaration or > definition (and thus the .h or the .c file). > > >From the comment in arch/x86/kernel/process.c#50: > 43 /* > 44 * per-CPU TSS segments. Threads are completely 'soft' on Linux, > 45 * no more per-task TSS's. The TSS size is kept cacheline-aligned > 46 * so they are allowed to end up in the .data..cacheline_aligned > 47 * section. Since TSS's are completely CPU-local, we want them > 48 * on exact cacheline boundaries, to eliminate cacheline > ping-pong. > 49 */ > 50 __visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, cpu_tss_rw) = { > > I suspect that cache-line alignment is stricter than page alignment, > so the declaration should be fixed, but I was not sure and wanted to > check?
It must be page aligned.
Thanks,
tglx
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