[PATCH 1/2] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: trace_tlbie must not be called in realmode
Naveen N. Rao
naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Apr 10 15:55:02 AEST 2018
Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 20:17:47 +1000
>> Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 3:56 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > This crashes with a "Bad real address for load" attempting to load
>>> > from the vmalloc region in realmode (faulting address is in DAR).
>>> >
>>> > Oops: Bad interrupt in KVM entry/exit code, sig: 6 [#1]
>>> > LE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
>>> > CPU: 53 PID: 6582 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Not tainted 4.16.0-01530-g43d1859f0994
>>> > NIP: c0000000000155ac LR: c0000000000c2430 CTR: c000000000015580
>>> > REGS: c000000fff76dd80 TRAP: 0200 Not tainted (4.16.0-01530-g43d1859f0994)
>>> > MSR: 9000000000201003 <SF,HV,ME,RI,LE> CR: 48082222 XER: 00000000
>>> > CFAR: 0000000102900ef0 DAR: d00017fffd941a28 DSISR: 00000040 SOFTE: 3
>>> > NIP [c0000000000155ac] perf_trace_tlbie+0x2c/0x1a0
>>> > LR [c0000000000c2430] do_tlbies+0x230/0x2f0
>>> >
>>> > I suspect the reason is the per-cpu data is not in the linear chunk.
>>> > This could be restored if that was able to be fixed, but for now,
>>> > just remove the tracepoints.
>>>
>>> Could you share the stack trace as well? I've not observed this in my testing.
>>
>> I can't seem to find it, I can try reproduce tomorrow. It was coming
>> from h_remove hcall from the guest. It's 176 logical CPUs.
>>
>>> May be I don't have as many cpus. I presume your talking about the per cpu
>>> data offsets for per cpu trace data?
>>
>> It looked like it was dereferencing virtually mapped per-cpu data, yes.
>> Probably the perf_events deref.
>
> Naveen has posted a series to (hopefully) fix this, which just missed
> the merge window:
>
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/894757/
I'm afraid that won't actually help here :(
That series is specific to the function tracer, while this is using
static tracepoints.
We could convert trace_tlbie() to a TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION() and guard it
within a check for paca->ftrace_enabled, but that would only be useful
if the below callsites can ever be hit outside of KVM guest mode.
- Naveen
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