[PATCH v1 3/4] powerpc/code-patching: Use jump_label for testing freed initmem

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Fri May 20 03:27:54 AEST 2022



Le 19/05/2022 à 08:53, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
> 
> 
> Le 19/05/2022 à 08:27, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
>>
>>
>> Le 19/05/2022 à 04:17, Guenter Roeck a écrit :
>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 04:40:20PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>>> Once init is done, initmem is freed forever so no need to
>>>> test system_state at every call to patch_instruction().
>>>>
>>>> Use jump_label.
>>>>
>>>> This reduces by 2% the time needed to activate ftrace on an 8xx.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It also causes the qemu mpc8544ds emulation to crash.
>>>
>>> BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on write at 0xc122eb34
>>> Faulting instruction address: 0xc001b580
>>> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
>>> BE PAGE_SIZE=4K MPC8544 DS
>>> Modules linked in:
>>> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.18.0-rc7-next-20220518 #1
>>> NIP:  c001b580 LR: c001b560 CTR: 00000003
>>> REGS: c5107dd0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (5.18.0-rc7-next-20220518)
>>> MSR:  00009000 <EE,ME>  CR: 24000882  XER: 00000000
>>> DEAR: c122eb34 ESR: 00800000
>>> GPR00: c001b560 c5107ec0 c5120020 10000000 00000000 00000078 0c000000 
>>> cfffffff
>>> GPR08: c001e9ec 00000001 00000007 00000000 44000882 00000000 c0005178 
>>> 00000000
>>> GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
>>> 00000000
>>> GPR24: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
>>> c1230000
>>> NIP [c001b580] free_initmem+0x48/0xa8
>>> LR [c001b560] free_initmem+0x28/0xa8
>>> Call Trace:
>>> [c5107ec0] [c001b560] free_initmem+0x28/0xa8 (unreliable)
>>> [c5107ee0] [c00051b0] kernel_init+0x38/0x150
>>> [c5107f00] [c001626c] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
>>> Instruction dump:
>>> 3fe0c123 912a00dc 90010024 48000665 3d20c218 8929fa65 2c090000 41820058
>>> 813feb34 2c090000 4082003c 39200001 <913feb34> 80010024 3cc0c114 
>>> 83e1001c
>>>
>>> Reverting this patch fixes the problem.
>>>
>>
>> That's strange.
>>
>> I was able to reproduce the problem.
>>
>> Removing the __ro_after_init in front of
>> DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(init_mem_is_free) fixes the problem.
>>
>> I can't understand why, mark_readonly() is called after free_initmem().
>>
> 
> Moving static_branch_enable(&init_mem_is_free) before mark_initmem_nx() 
> also solves the problem.
> 
> There must be something wrong with mark_initmem_nx().
> 


Fixing patch sent, see 
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/2e35f0fd649c83c5add17a99514ac040767be93a.1652981047.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/

Christophe


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