Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: implement CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Tue Dec 18 2018 - 09:06:17 EST


Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> writes:

> This patch implements CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL to warn about
> incorrect use of virt_to_phys() and page_to_phys()

This commit is breaking my p5020ds booting a 32-bit kernel with:

smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
__ioremap(): phys addr 0x7fef5000 is RAM lr ioremap_coherent
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000
Faulting instruction address: 0xc002e950
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
BE SMP NR_CPUS=24 CoreNet Generic
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.20.0-rc2-gcc-7.0.1-00138-g9a0380d299e9 #148
NIP: c002e950 LR: c002eb20 CTR: 00000001
REGS: e804bd20 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (4.20.0-rc2-gcc-7.0.1-00138-g9a0380d299e9)
MSR: 00021002 <CE,ME> CR: 28004222 XER: 00000000
DEAR: 00000000 ESR: 00000000
GPR00: c002eb20 e804bdd0 e8050000 00000000 00021002 00000000 00000050 00021002
GPR08: 2d3f0000 00000001 00000000 00000004 24000842 00000000 c00026d0 00000000
GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
GPR24: 00029002 7fef5140 30000000 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000001 00000000
NIP [c002e950] smp_85xx_kick_cpu+0x120/0x410
LR [c002eb20] smp_85xx_kick_cpu+0x2f0/0x410
Call Trace:
[e804bdd0] [c002eb20] smp_85xx_kick_cpu+0x2f0/0x410 (unreliable)
[e804be20] [c0012e38] __cpu_up+0xc8/0x230
[e804be50] [c0040b34] bringup_cpu+0x34/0x110
[e804be70] [c00418a8] cpu_up+0x128/0x250
[e804beb0] [c0b84b14] smp_init+0xc4/0x10c
[e804bee0] [c0b75c1c] kernel_init_freeable+0xc8/0x250
[e804bf20] [c00026e8] kernel_init+0x18/0x120
[e804bf40] [c0011298] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
Instruction dump:
7fb3e850 57bdd1be 2e1d0000 41d20250 57bd3032 393dffc0 7e6a9b78 5529d1be
39290001 7d2903a6 60000000 60000000 <7c0050ac> 394a0040 4200fff8 7c0004ac
---[ end trace edcab2a1dfd5b38c ]---


Which is obviously this hunk:

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
> index 4fc77a99c9bf..68d204a45cd0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ __ioremap_caller(phys_addr_t addr, unsigned long size, pgprot_t prot, void *call
> * Don't allow anybody to remap normal RAM that we're using.
> * mem_init() sets high_memory so only do the check after that.
> */
> - if (slab_is_available() && (p < virt_to_phys(high_memory)) &&
> + if (slab_is_available() && virt_addr_valid(p) &&
> page_is_ram(__phys_to_pfn(p))) {
> printk("__ioremap(): phys addr 0x%llx is RAM lr %ps\n",
> (unsigned long long)p, __builtin_return_address(0));


I'll try and come up with a fix tomorrow.

cheers