[PATCH-RESEND] cxl: Disable prefault_mode in Radix mode

Vaibhav Jain vaibhav at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue May 29 11:55:48 AEST 2018


Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> writes:

> Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> From: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.ibm.com>
>>
>> Currently we see a kernel-oops reported on Power-9 while attaching a
>> context to an AFU, with radix-mode and sysfs attr 'prefault_mode' set
>> to anything other than 'none'. The backtrace of the oops is of this
>> form:
>>
>> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000080
>> Faulting instruction address: 0xc00800000bcf3b20
>> cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000037f003800]
>>     pc: c00800000bcf3b20: cxl_load_segment+0x178/0x290 [cxl]
>>     lr: c00800000bcf39f0: cxl_load_segment+0x48/0x290 [cxl]
>>     sp: c00000037f003a80
>>    msr: 9000000000009033
>>    dar: 80
>>  dsisr: 40000000
>>   current = 0xc00000037f280000
>>   paca    = 0xc0000003ffffe600   softe: 3        irq_happened: 0x01
>>     pid   = 3529, comm = afp_no_int
>> <snip>
>> [c00000037f003af0] c00800000bcf4424 cxl_prefault+0xfc/0x248 [cxl]
>> [c00000037f003b50] c00800000bcf8a40 process_element_entry_psl9+0xd8/0x1a0 [cxl]
>> [c00000037f003b90] c00800000bcf944c cxl_attach_dedicated_process_psl9+0x44/0x130 [cxl]
>> [c00000037f003bd0] c00800000bcf5448 native_attach_process+0xc0/0x130 [cxl]
>> [c00000037f003c50] c00800000bcf16cc afu_ioctl+0x3f4/0x5e0 [cxl]
>> [c00000037f003d00] c00000000039d98c do_vfs_ioctl+0xdc/0x890
>> [c00000037f003da0] c00000000039e1a8 ksys_ioctl+0x68/0xf0
>> [c00000037f003df0] c00000000039e270 sys_ioctl+0x40/0xa0
>> [c00000037f003e30] c00000000000b320 system_call+0x58/0x6c
>> --- Exception: c01 (System Call) at 0000000010053bb0
>   ^^^
> This tells patch/git-am to drop the rest of the change log, which is not
> what we want.
>
> I tend to indent stack traces etc with two spaces, which avoids the
> problem. Or in this case we can just drop the line as it's not really
> that informative.
>
> I've fixed it up.
>
> cheers
>

Sorry for missing that and thanks for fixing it in the patch.

-- 
Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Linux Technology Center, IBM India Pvt. Ltd.



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