[powerpc][next-20210727] Boot failure - kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c:98!

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk at oracle.com
Fri Jul 30 02:35:29 AEST 2021


On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 05:13:36PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:35:34AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 01:31:06PM +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
> > > next-20210723 was good. The boot failure seems to have been introduced with next-20210726.
> > > 
> > > I have attached the boot log.
> > 
> > I noticed this with OpenSUSE's ppc64le config [1] and my bisect landed on
> > commit ad6c00283163 ("swiotlb: Free tbl memory in swiotlb_exit()"). That
> > series just keeps on giving...

Low-level across platform do that. And thank you for testing it and
finding this bug. Please let me know if the patch works so I can add it
in in the patch series.
> 
> Yes, but look how handy our new print is!

:)
> 
> [    0.010799] software IO TLB: tearing down default memory pool
> [    0.010805] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    0.010808] kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c:98!
> 
> Following Nick's suggestion, the diff below should help? I don't have a
> relevant box on which I can test it though.
> 
> Will
> 
> --->8
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/svm.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/svm.c
> index 1d829e257996..87f001b4c4e4 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/svm.c
> @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ void __init svm_swiotlb_init(void)
>  
>  int set_memory_encrypted(unsigned long addr, int numpages)
>  {
> +       if (!mem_encrypt_active())
> +               return 0;
> +
>         if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(addr))
>                 return -EINVAL;
>  
> @@ -73,6 +76,9 @@ int set_memory_encrypted(unsigned long addr, int numpages)
>  
>  int set_memory_decrypted(unsigned long addr, int numpages)
>  {
> +       if (!mem_encrypt_active())
> +               return 0;
> +
>         if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(addr))
>                 return -EINVAL;
>  


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