[PATCH] powerpc: improve ppc_save_regs

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 00:10:05 AEDT 2020


Make ppc_save_regs a bit more useful:
- Set NIP to our caller rather rather than the caller's caller (which is
  what we save to LR in the stack frame).
- Set SOFTE to the current irq soft-mask state rather than
  uninitialised.
- Zero CFAR rather than leave it uninitialised.

In qemu, injecting a nmi to an idle CPU gives a nicer stack trace (note
NIP, IRQMASK, CFAR).

  Oops: System Reset, sig: 6 [#1]
  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash PREEMPT SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc2-00429-ga76e38fd80bf #1277
  NIP:  c0000000000b6e5c LR: c0000000000b6e5c CTR: c000000000b06270
  REGS: c00000000173fb08 TRAP: 0100   Not tainted
  MSR:  9000000000001033 <SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 28000224  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c0000000016a2128 IRQMASK: c00000000173fc80
  GPR00: c0000000000b6e5c c00000000173fc80 c000000001743400 c00000000173fb08
  GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000008 0000000000000001
  GPR08: 00000001fea80000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff
  GPR12: c000000000b06270 c000000001930000 00000000300026c0 0000000000000000
  GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000003 c0000000016a2128
  GPR20: c0000001ffc97148 0000000000000001 c000000000f289a8 0000000000080000
  GPR24: c0000000016e1480 000000011dc870ba 0000000000000000 0000000000000003
  GPR28: c0000000016a2128 c0000001ffc97148 c0000000016a2260 0000000000000003
  NIP [c0000000000b6e5c] power9_idle_type+0x5c/0x70
  LR [c0000000000b6e5c] power9_idle_type+0x5c/0x70
  Call Trace:
  [c00000000173fc80] [c0000000000b6e5c] power9_idle_type+0x5c/0x70 (unreliable)
  [c00000000173fcb0] [c000000000b062b0] stop_loop+0x40/0x60
  [c00000000173fce0] [c000000000b022d8] cpuidle_enter_state+0xa8/0x660
  [c00000000173fd60] [c000000000b0292c] cpuidle_enter+0x4c/0x70
  [c00000000173fda0] [c00000000017624c] call_cpuidle+0x4c/0x90
  [c00000000173fdc0] [c000000000176768] do_idle+0x338/0x460
  [c00000000173fe60] [c000000000176b3c] cpu_startup_entry+0x3c/0x40
  [c00000000173fe90] [c0000000000126b4] rest_init+0x124/0x140
  [c00000000173fed0] [c0000000010948d4] start_kernel+0x938/0x988
  [c00000000173ff90] [c00000000000cdcc] start_here_common+0x1c/0x20

  Oops: System Reset, sig: 6 [#1]
  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash PREEMPT SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc2-00430-gddce91b8712f #1278
  NIP:  c00000000001d150 LR: c0000000000b6e5c CTR: c000000000b06270
  REGS: c00000000173fb08 TRAP: 0100   Not tainted
  MSR:  9000000000001033 <SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 28000224  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: 0000000000000000 IRQMASK: 1
  GPR00: c0000000000b6e5c c00000000173fc80 c000000001743400 c00000000173fb08
  GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000008 0000000000000001
  GPR08: 00000001fea80000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff
  GPR12: c000000000b06270 c000000001930000 00000000300026c0 0000000000000000
  GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000003 c0000000016a2128
  GPR20: c0000001ffc97148 0000000000000001 c000000000f289a8 0000000000080000
  GPR24: c0000000016e1480 00000000b68db8ce 0000000000000000 0000000000000003
  GPR28: c0000000016a2128 c0000001ffc97148 c0000000016a2260 0000000000000003
  NIP [c00000000001d150] replay_system_reset+0x30/0xa0
  LR [c0000000000b6e5c] power9_idle_type+0x5c/0x70
  Call Trace:
  [c00000000173fc80] [c0000000000b6e5c] power9_idle_type+0x5c/0x70 (unreliable)
  [c00000000173fcb0] [c000000000b062b0] stop_loop+0x40/0x60
  [c00000000173fce0] [c000000000b022d8] cpuidle_enter_state+0xa8/0x660
  [c00000000173fd60] [c000000000b0292c] cpuidle_enter+0x4c/0x70
  [c00000000173fda0] [c00000000017624c] call_cpuidle+0x4c/0x90
  [c00000000173fdc0] [c000000000176768] do_idle+0x338/0x460
  [c00000000173fe60] [c000000000176b38] cpu_startup_entry+0x38/0x40
  [c00000000173fe90] [c0000000000126b4] rest_init+0x124/0x140
  [c00000000173fed0] [c0000000010948d4] start_kernel+0x938/0x988
  [c00000000173ff90] [c00000000000cdcc] start_here_common+0x1c/0x20

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
This becomes more important after implementing irq replay in C.

 arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_save_regs.S | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_save_regs.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_save_regs.S
index f3bd0bbf2ae8..2d4d21bb46a9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_save_regs.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_save_regs.S
@@ -55,14 +55,17 @@ _GLOBAL(ppc_save_regs)
 	PPC_STL	r29,29*SZL(r3)
 	PPC_STL	r30,30*SZL(r3)
 	PPC_STL	r31,31*SZL(r3)
+	lbz	r0,PACAIRQSOFTMASK(r13)
+	PPC_STL	r0,SOFTE-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
 #endif
 	/* go up one stack frame for SP */
 	PPC_LL	r4,0(r1)
 	PPC_STL	r4,1*SZL(r3)
 	/* get caller's LR */
 	PPC_LL	r0,LRSAVE(r4)
-	PPC_STL	r0,_NIP-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
 	PPC_STL	r0,_LINK-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
+	mflr	r0
+	PPC_STL	r0,_NIP-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
 	mfmsr	r0
 	PPC_STL	r0,_MSR-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
 	mfctr	r0
@@ -73,4 +76,5 @@ _GLOBAL(ppc_save_regs)
 	PPC_STL	r0,_CCR-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
 	li	r0,0
 	PPC_STL	r0,_TRAP-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
+	PPC_STL	r0,ORIG_GPR3-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r3)
 	blr
-- 
2.23.0



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