From: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
To: Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@wdc.com>
Cc: "palmer@sifive.com" <palmer@sifive.com>,
Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"rppt@linux.ibm.com" <rppt@linux.ibm.com>,
"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>,
Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@wdc.com>,
"aou@eecs.berkeley.edu" <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
"paul.walmsley@sifive.com" <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
"linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] RISC-V: Setup initial page tables in two stages
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:35:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAhSdy0ULa9mEQVBWMSUjxtjxmiPunbZP8diJduvFjNA0E4nYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <847fb8c879bbd2c3fd41dc1e428b3217253acebb.camel@wdc.com>
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 12:27 AM Alistair Francis
<Alistair.Francis@wdc.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2019-07-10 at 17:05 -0700, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jun 2019, Anup Patel wrote:
> >
> > > Currently, the setup_vm() does initial page table setup in one-shot
> > > very early before enabling MMU. Due to this, the setup_vm() has to
> > > map
> > > all possible kernel virtual addresses since it does not know size
> > > and
> > > location of RAM. This means we have kernel mappings for non-
> > > existent
> > > RAM and any buggy driver (or kernel) code doing out-of-bound access
> > > to RAM will not fault and cause underterministic behaviour.
> > >
> > > Further, the setup_vm() creates PMD mappings (i.e. 2M mappings) for
> > > RV64 systems. This means for PAGE_OFFSET=0xffffffe000000000 (i.e.
> > > MAXPHYSMEM_128GB=y), the setup_vm() will require 129 pages (i.e.
> > > 516 KB) of memory for initial page tables which is never freed. The
> > > memory required for initial page tables will further increase if
> > > we chose a lower value of PAGE_OFFSET (e.g. 0xffffff0000000000)
> > >
> > > This patch implements two-staged initial page table setup, as
> > > follows:
> > > 1. Early (i.e. setup_vm()): This stage maps kernel image and DTB in
> > > a early page table (i.e. early_pg_dir). The early_pg_dir will be
> > > used
> > > only by boot HART so it can be freed as-part of init memory free-
> > > up.
> > > 2. Final (i.e. setup_vm_final()): This stage maps all possible RAM
> > > banks in the final page table (i.e. swapper_pg_dir). The boot HART
> > > will start using swapper_pg_dir at the end of setup_vm_final(). All
> > > non-boot HARTs directly use the swapper_pg_dir created by boot
> > > HART.
> > >
> > > We have following advantages with this new approach:
> > > 1. Kernel mappings for non-existent RAM don't exists anymore.
> > > 2. Memory consumed by initial page tables is now indpendent of the
> > > chosen PAGE_OFFSET.
> > > 3. Memory consumed by initial page tables on RV64 system is 2 pages
> > > (i.e. 8 KB) which has significantly reduced and these pages will be
> > > freed as-part of the init memory free-up.
> > >
> > > The patch also provides a foundation for implementing strict kernel
> > > mappings where we protect kernel text and rodata using PTE
> > > permissions.
> > >
> > > Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
> >
> > Thanks, updated to apply and to fix a checkpatch warning, and
> > queued.
> >
> > This may not make it in for v5.3-rc1; if not, we'll submit it later.
>
> I'm seeing this failure on RV32 which I bisected to this patch:
>
> [ 1.820461] systemd[1]: systemd 242-19-gdb2e367+ running in system
> mode. (-PAM -AUDIT -SELINUX +IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP
> -LIBCRYPTSETUP -GCRYPT -GNUTLS +ACL +XZ -LZ4 -SECCOMP +BLKID -ELFUTILS
> +KMOD -IDN2 -IDN -PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid)
> [ 1.824320] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
> address 9ff00c15
> [ 1.824973] Oops [#1]
> [ 1.825162] Modules linked in:
> [ 1.825536] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 5.2.0-rc7 #1
> [ 1.826039] sepc: c05c3c78 ra : c04b5a74 sp : df047ce0
> [ 1.826514] gp : c07a1038 tp : df04c000 t0 : 000000fc
> [ 1.826919] t1 : 00000002 t2 : 000003ef s0 : df047cf0
> [ 1.827322] s1 : df7090f8 a0 : 9ff00c15 a1 : c072166c
> [ 1.827723] a2 : 00000000 a3 : 00000001 a4 : 00000001
> [ 1.828104] a5 : df6f8138 a6 : 0000002f a7 : de62a000
> [ 1.828534] s2 : c072166c s3 : 00000000 s4 : 00000000
> [ 1.828931] s5 : c07a2000 s6 : 00400cc0 s7 : 00000400
> [ 1.829319] s8 : de491018 s9 : 00000000 s10: fffff000
> [ 1.829702] s11: de491030 t3 : de62b000 t4 : 00000000
> [ 1.830090] t5 : 00000000 t6 : 00000080
> [ 1.830392] sstatus: 00000100 sbadaddr: 9ff00c15 scause: 0000000d
> [ 1.831616] ---[ end trace 49a926a1a5300c00 ]---
> [ 1.835776] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> exitcode=0x0000000b
> [ 1.836575] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill
> init! exitcode=0x0000000b ]---
>
> Does anyone else see this?
>
> A simple revert of this patch on 5.3-rc4 fixes the issue for me.
It looks like this patch is exposing some other bug of Linux RISC-V
32bit kernel.
We will be hiding the actual issue by reverting this patch because
previously we were mapping all possible kernel virtual addresses
even for non-existent RAM (after RAM ends).
Let me debug this more.
Regards,
Anup
>
> Alistair
>
> >
> >
> > - Paul
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-16 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-07 6:01 [PATCH v5 0/2] Two-stagged initial page table setup Anup Patel
2019-06-07 6:01 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] RISC-V: Fix memory reservation in setup_bootmem() Anup Patel
2019-06-28 20:59 ` Paul Walmsley
2019-06-07 6:01 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] RISC-V: Setup initial page tables in two stages Anup Patel
2019-07-11 0:05 ` Paul Walmsley
2019-08-15 18:57 ` Alistair Francis
2019-08-15 19:07 ` David Abdurachmanov
2019-08-15 20:25 ` Alistair Francis
2019-08-15 20:29 ` Paul Walmsley
2019-08-15 21:32 ` Alistair Francis
2019-08-16 1:05 ` Anup Patel [this message]
2019-06-22 4:13 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] Two-stagged initial page table setup Anup Patel
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