Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] powerpc/ptdump: Convert powerpc to GENERIC_PTDUMP

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:55:30 +1000

Christophe Leroy <[email-masked]> writes:
> Le 30/08/2021 à 09:52, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
>> Christophe Leroy <[email-masked]> writes:
>>> Le 29/08/2021 à 20:55, Nathan Chancellor a écrit :
>>>> On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 04:49:43PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>>>> This patch converts powerpc to the generic PTDUMP implementation.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This patch as commit e084728393a5 ("powerpc/ptdump: Convert powerpc to
>>>> GENERIC_PTDUMP") in powerpc/next causes a panic with Fedora's ppc64le
>>>> config [1] when booting up in QEMU with [2]:
>>>>
>>>> [    1.621864] BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0xc0eeff7f00000000
>>>> [    1.623058] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000045e5fc
>>>> [    1.623832] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
>>>> [    1.624318] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
>>>> [    1.625015] Modules linked in:
>>>> [    1.625463] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc7-next-20210827 #16
>>>> [    1.626237] NIP:  c00000000045e5fc LR: c00000000045e580 CTR: c000000000518220
>>>> [    1.626839] REGS: c00000000752b820 TRAP: 0380   Not tainted  (5.14.0-rc7-next-20210827)
>>>> [    1.627528] MSR:  9000000002009033 <SF,HV,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 84002482  XER: 20000000
>>>> [    1.628449] CFAR: c000000000518300 IRQMASK: 0
>>>> [    1.628449] GPR00: c00000000045e580 c00000000752bac0 c0000000028a9300 0000000000000000
>>>> [    1.628449] GPR04: c200800000000000 ffffffffffffffff 000000000000000a 0000000000000001
>>>> [    1.628449] GPR08: c0eeff7f00000000 0000000000000012 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>>> [    1.628449] GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000000002b20000 fffffffffffffffe c000000002971a70
>>>> [    1.628449] GPR16: c000000002960040 c0000000011a8f98 c00000000752bbf0 ffffffffffffffff
>>>> [    1.628449] GPR20: c2008fffffffffff c0eeff7f00000000 c000000002971a68 c00a0003ff000000
>>>> [    1.628449] GPR24: c000000002971a78 0000000000000002 0000000000000001 c0000000011a8f98
>>>> [    1.628449] GPR28: c0000000011a8f98 c0000000028daef8 c200800000000000 c200900000000000
>>>> [    1.634090] NIP [c00000000045e5fc] __walk_page_range+0x2bc/0xce0
>>>> [    1.635117] LR [c00000000045e580] __walk_page_range+0x240/0xce0
>>>> [    1.635755] Call Trace:
>>>> [    1.636018] [c00000000752bac0] [c00000000045e580] __walk_page_range+0x240/0xce0 (unreliable)
>>>> [    1.636811] [c00000000752bbd0] [c00000000045f234] walk_page_range_novma+0x74/0xb0
>>>> [    1.637459] [c00000000752bc20] [c000000000518448] ptdump_walk_pgd+0x98/0x170
>>>> [    1.638138] [c00000000752bc70] [c0000000000aa988] ptdump_check_wx+0x88/0xd0
>>>> [    1.638738] [c00000000752bd50] [c00000000008d6d8] mark_rodata_ro+0x48/0x80
>>>> [    1.639299] [c00000000752bdb0] [c000000000012a34] kernel_init+0x74/0x1a0
>>>> [    1.639842] [c00000000752be10] [c00000000000cfd4] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
>>>> [    1.640597] Instruction dump:
>>>> [    1.641021] 38e7ffff 39490010 7ce707b4 7fca5436 79081564 7d4a3838 7908f082 794a1f24
>>>> [    1.641740] 78a8f00e 30e6ffff 7ea85214 7ce73110 <7d48502a> 78f90fa4 2c2a0000 39290010
>>>> [    1.642771] ---[ end trace 6cf72b085097ad52 ]---
>>>> [    1.643220]
>>>> [    2.644228] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
>>>> [    2.645523] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b ]---
>>>>
>>>> This is not compiler specific, I can reproduce it with GCC 11.2.0 and
>>>> binutils 2.37. If there is any additional information I can provide,
>>>> please let me know.
>>>
>>> Can you provide a dissassembly of __walk_page_range() ? Or provide your vmlinux binary.
>> 
>> It seems to be walking of the end of the pgd.
>> 
>> [    3.373800] walk_p4d_range: addr c00fff0000000000 end c00fff8000000000
>> [    3.373852] walk_p4d_range: addr c00fff8000000000 end c010000000000000	<- end of pgd at PAGE_OFFSET + 4PB
>> [    3.373905] walk_p4d_range: addr c010000000000000 end c010008000000000
>
> Yes, I want it to walk from TASK_SIZE_MAX up to 0xffffffffffffffff :)

But the page table doesn't span that far? 0_o

> static struct ptdump_range ptdump_range[] __ro_after_init = {
> 	{TASK_SIZE_MAX, ~0UL},
> 	{0, 0}
> };
>
> Ok, well, ppc32 go up to 0xffffffff
>
> What's the top address to be used for ppc64 ?

It's different for (hash | radix) x page size.

The below works, and matches what we used to do.

Possibly we can come up with something cleaner, not sure.

cheers

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c
index 2d80d775d15e..3d3778a74969 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c
@@ -359,6 +359,8 @@ static int __init ptdump_init(void)
 		ptdump_range[0].start = KERN_VIRT_START;
 	else
 		ptdump_range[0].start = PAGE_OFFSET;
+
+	ptdump_range[0].end = ptdump_range[0].start + (PGDIR_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PGD);
 #endif
 
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