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From: "Jonathan Neuschäfer" <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: "Jonathan Neuschäfer" <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 03/13] powerpc/mm/32s: rework mmu_mapin_ram()
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:07:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181218140714.GC24278@latitude> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a39d910-2a05-3ce7-c949-296db2d458b9@c-s.fr>

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On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 09:18:42AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> The only difference I see then are the flags. Everything else is seems
> identical.
> 
> I know you tried already, but would you mind trying once more with the
> following change ?
> 
[...]
> -		setbat(idx, PAGE_OFFSET + base, base, size, PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT);
> +		setbat(idx, PAGE_OFFSET + base, base, size, PAGE_KERNEL_X);

Good call, with this workaround on top of patches 1-3, it boots again:

	# mount -t debugfs d /sys/kernel/debug
	# cat /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/block_address_translation
	---[ Instruction Block Address Translation ]---
	0: 0xc0000000-0xc0ffffff 0x00000000 Kernel EXEC
	1:         -
	2: 0xc1000000-0xc17fffff 0x01000000 Kernel EXEC
	3:         -
	4: 0xd0000000-0xd1ffffff 0x10000000 Kernel EXEC
	5:         -
	6:         -
	7:         -

	---[ Data Block Address Translation ]---
	0: 0xc0000000-0xc0ffffff 0x00000000 Kernel RW
	1: 0xfffe0000-0xffffffff 0x0d000000 Kernel RW no cache guarded
	2: 0xc1000000-0xc17fffff 0x01000000 Kernel RW
	3:         -
	4: 0xd0000000-0xd1ffffff 0x10000000 Kernel RW
	5:         -
	6:         -
	7:         -

> I think we may have some code trying to modify the kernel text without using
> code patching functions.

Is there any faster way than to sprinkle some printks in setup_kernel
and try to find the guilty piece of code this way?


Jonathan

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-18 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-29 19:00 [PATCH v1 00/13] powerpc/32s: Use BATs for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 01/13] powerpc/mm: add exec protection on powerpc 603 Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 02/13] powerpc/mm/32: add base address to mmu_mapin_ram() Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 03/13] powerpc/mm/32s: rework mmu_mapin_ram() Christophe Leroy
2018-12-03 21:55   ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2018-12-13 12:16     ` Christophe Leroy
2018-12-13 14:51       ` Christophe Leroy
2018-12-17  1:28         ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2018-12-17  9:29           ` Christophe Leroy
2018-12-18  3:05             ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2018-12-18  9:18               ` Christophe Leroy
2018-12-18 14:07                 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer [this message]
2018-12-18 14:15                   ` Christophe Leroy
2018-12-18 14:55                     ` Christophe Leroy
2018-12-18 15:04                       ` Christophe Leroy
2018-12-18 17:04                         ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2018-12-18 18:13                           ` Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 04/13] powerpc/mm/32s: use generic mmu_mapin_ram() for all blocks Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 05/13] powerpc/wii: remove wii_mmu_mapin_mem2() Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 06/13] powerpc/mm/32s: use _PAGE_EXEC in setbat() Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 07/13] powerpc/mm/32s: add setibat() clearibat() and update_bats() Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 08/13] powerpc/32: add helper to write into segment registers Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 09/13] powerpc/mmu: add is_strict_kernel_rwx() helper Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 10/13] powerpc/kconfig: define PAGE_SHIFT inside Kconfig Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 11/13] powerpc/kconfig: define CONFIG_DATA_SHIFT and CONFIG_ETEXT_SHIFT Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 12/13] powerpc/mm/32s: Use BATs for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX Christophe Leroy
2018-11-29 19:00 ` [PATCH v1 13/13] powerpc/kconfig: make _etext and data areas alignment configurable on Book3s 32 Christophe Leroy

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