Re: hpsa driver bug crack kernel down!

From: Jiang Liu
Date: Mon Apr 14 2014 - 04:58:14 EST


Hi all,
I guess I found the root cause. It's a bug in matching
device scope, variable 'level' should be decreased when walking up PCI
topology.
Could you please help to test following patch?
Thanks!
Gerry

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/dmar.c b/drivers/iommu/dmar.c
index f445c10..1f8308c 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/dmar.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/dmar.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ dmar_alloc_pci_notify_info(struct pci_dev *dev,
unsigned long event)
info->seg = pci_domain_nr(dev->bus);
info->level = level;
if (event == BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE) {
- for (tmp = dev, level--; tmp; tmp = tmp->bus->self) {
+ for (tmp = dev, level--; tmp; level--, tmp =
tmp->bus->self) {
info->path[level].device = PCI_SLOT(tmp->devfn);
info->path[level].function = PCI_FUNC(tmp->devfn);
if (pci_is_root_bus(tmp->bus))


On 2014/4/11 0:19, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 08:46 +0000, Woodhouse, David wrote:
>> On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 09:15 +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>>> [+ David, VT-d maintainer ]
>>>
>>> Jiang, David, can you please have a look into this issue?
>>>
>>
>>>>>>>>>>> DMAR:[fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear
>>>>>>>>>>> dmar: DRHD: handling fault status reg 602
>>>>>>>>>>> dmar: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [02:00.0] fault addr 7f61e000
>>
>> That "Present bit in context entry is clear" fault means that we have
>> not set up *any* mappings for this PCI deviceâ on this IOMMU.
>>
>>>> Yes, specifically (finally done bisecting):
>>>>
>>>> commit 2e45528930388658603ea24d49cf52867b928d3e
>>>> Author: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Date: Wed Feb 19 14:07:36 2014 +0800
>>>>
>>>> iommu/vt-d: Unify the way to process DMAR device scope array
>>
>> This commit is about how we decide which IOMMU a given PCI device is
>> attached to.
>>
>> Thus, my first guess would be that we are quite happily setting up the
>> requested DMA maps on the *wrong* IOMMU, and then taking faults when the
>> device actually tries to do DMA.
>>
>> However, I'm not 100% convinced of that. The fault address looks
>> suspiciously like a true physical address, not a virtual bus address of
>> the type that we'd normally allocate for a dma_map_* operation. Those
>> would start at 0xfffff000 and work downwards, typically.
>>
>> Do you have 'iommu=pt' on the kernel command line?
>
> No.
>
>> Can I see the full
>> dmesg as this system boots, and also a copy of the DMAR table?
>
> Attaching a dmesg from one of the kernels that boots. It doesn't appear
> to have much of the related information... is there any debug config
> option I can enable that might give you more data?
>
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