Re: [PATCH] powerpc/64s/hash: Fix hash_preload running with interrupts enabled

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>> On 27-Jul-2020, at 11:39 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Commit 2f92447f9f96 ("powerpc/book3s64/hash: Use the pte_t address from the
>> caller") removed the local_irq_disable from hash_preload, but it was
>> required for more than just the page table walk: the hash pte busy bit is
>> effectively a lock which may be taken in interrupt context, and the local
>> update flag test must not be preempted before it's used.
>> 
>> This solves apparent lockups with perf interrupting __hash_page_64K. If
>> get_perf_callchain then also takes a hash fault on the same page while it
>> is already locked, it will loop forever taking hash faults, which looks like
>> this:
>> 
>> cpu 0x49e: Vector: 100 (System Reset) at [c00000001a4f7d70]
>>    pc: c000000000072dc8: hash_page_mm+0x8/0x800
>>    lr: c00000000000c5a4: do_hash_page+0x24/0x38
>>    sp: c0002ac1cc69ac70
>>   msr: 8000000000081033
>>  current = 0xc0002ac1cc602e00
>>  paca    = 0xc00000001de1f280   irqmask: 0x03   irq_happened: 0x01
>>    pid   = 20118, comm = pread2_processe
>> Linux version 5.8.0-rc6-00345-g1fad14f18bc6
>> 49e:mon> t
>> [c0002ac1cc69ac70] c00000000000c5a4 do_hash_page+0x24/0x38 (unreliable)
>> --- Exception: 300 (Data Access) at c00000000008fa60 __copy_tofrom_user_power7+0x20c/0x7ac
>> [link register   ] c000000000335d10 copy_from_user_nofault+0xf0/0x150
>> [c0002ac1cc69af70] c00032bf9fa3c880 (unreliable)
>> [c0002ac1cc69afa0] c000000000109df0 read_user_stack_64+0x70/0xf0
>> [c0002ac1cc69afd0] c000000000109fcc perf_callchain_user_64+0x15c/0x410
>> [c0002ac1cc69b060] c000000000109c00 perf_callchain_user+0x20/0x40
>> [c0002ac1cc69b080] c00000000031c6cc get_perf_callchain+0x25c/0x360
>> [c0002ac1cc69b120] c000000000316b50 perf_callchain+0x70/0xa0
>> [c0002ac1cc69b140] c000000000316ddc perf_prepare_sample+0x25c/0x790
>> [c0002ac1cc69b1a0] c000000000317350 perf_event_output_forward+0x40/0xb0
>> [c0002ac1cc69b220] c000000000306138 __perf_event_overflow+0x88/0x1a0
>> [c0002ac1cc69b270] c00000000010cf70 record_and_restart+0x230/0x750
>> [c0002ac1cc69b620] c00000000010d69c perf_event_interrupt+0x20c/0x510
>> [c0002ac1cc69b730] c000000000027d9c performance_monitor_exception+0x4c/0x60
>> [c0002ac1cc69b750] c00000000000b2f8 performance_monitor_common_virt+0x1b8/0x1c0
>> --- Exception: f00 (Performance Monitor) at c0000000000cb5b0 pSeries_lpar_hpte_insert+0x0/0x160
>> [link register   ] c0000000000846f0 __hash_page_64K+0x210/0x540
>> [c0002ac1cc69ba50] 0000000000000000 (unreliable)
>> [c0002ac1cc69bb00] c000000000073ae0 update_mmu_cache+0x390/0x3a0
>> [c0002ac1cc69bb70] c00000000037f024 wp_page_copy+0x364/0xce0
>> [c0002ac1cc69bc20] c00000000038272c do_wp_page+0xdc/0xa60
>> [c0002ac1cc69bc70] c0000000003857bc handle_mm_fault+0xb9c/0x1b60
>> [c0002ac1cc69bd50] c00000000006c434 __do_page_fault+0x314/0xc90
>> [c0002ac1cc69be20] c00000000000c5c8 handle_page_fault+0x10/0x2c
>> --- Exception: 300 (Data Access) at 00007fff8c861fe8
>> SP (7ffff6b19660) is in userspace
>> 
>> Reported-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
>> Fixes: 2f92447f9f96 ("powerpc/book3s64/hash: Use the pte_t address from the
>> caller")
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Tested with the patch and it fixes the lockups I was seeing with my test run.
> Thanks for the fix.
>
> Tested-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks for testing.

What test are you running?

cheers