Re: Kernel stack overflows due to "powerpc: Remove ksp_limit onppc64" with v3.13-rc8 on ppc32 (P2020)

[Kevin Hao]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:05:32AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am getting kernel stack overflows with v3.13-rc8 on a system with P2020 CPU.
> The kernel is patched for the target, but I don't think that is related.
> Stack overflows are in different areas, but always in calls from __do_softirq.
> 
> Crashes happen reliably either during boot or if I put any kind of load
> onto the system.

How about the following fix:

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
index e47d268727a4..52fffe5616b4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ _GLOBAL(call_do_irq)
 	mflr	r0
 	stw	r0,4(r1)
 	lwz	r10,THREAD+KSP_LIMIT(r2)
-	addi	r11,r3,THREAD_INFO_GAP
+	addi	r11,r4,THREAD_INFO_GAP
 	stwu	r1,THREAD_SIZE-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r4)
 	mr	r1,r4
 	stw	r10,8(r1)

Thanks,
Kevin
> 
> Example:
> 
> Kernel stack overflow in process eb3e5a00, r1=eb79df90
> CPU: 0 PID: 2838 Comm: ssh Not tainted 3.13.0-rc8-juniper-00146-g19eca00 #4
> task: eb3e5a00 ti: c0616000 task.ti: ef440000
> NIP: c003a420 LR: c003a410 CTR: c0017518
> REGS: eb79dee0 TRAP: 0901   Not tainted (3.13.0-rc8-juniper-00146-g19eca00)
> MSR: 00029000 <CE,EE,ME>  CR: 24008444  XER: 00000000
> GPR00: c003a410 eb79df90 eb3e5a00 00000000 eb05d900 00000001 65d87646 00000000
> GPR08: 00000000 020b8000 00000000 00000000 44008442
> NIP [c003a420] __do_softirq+0x94/0x1ec
> LR [c003a410] __do_softirq+0x84/0x1ec
> Call Trace:
> [eb79df90] [c003a410] __do_softirq+0x84/0x1ec (unreliable)
> [eb79dfe0] [c003a970] irq_exit+0xbc/0xc8
> [eb79dff0] [c000cc1c] call_do_irq+0x24/0x3c
> [ef441f20] [c00046a8] do_IRQ+0x8c/0xf8
> [ef441f40] [c000e7f4] ret_from_except+0x0/0x18
> --- Exception: 501 at 0xfcda524
>     LR = 0x10024900
> Instruction dump:
> 7c781b78 3b40000a 3a73b040 543c0024 3a800000 3b3913a0 7ef5bb78 48201bf9
> 5463103a 7d3b182e 7e89b92e 7c008146 <3ba00000> 7e7e9b78 48000014 57fff87f
> Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel stack overflow
> CPU: 0 PID: 2838 Comm: ssh Not tainted 3.13.0-rc8-juniper-00146-g19eca00 #4
> Call Trace:
> Rebooting in 180 seconds..
> 
> Reverting the following commit fixes the problem.
> 
> cbc9565ee8 "powerpc: Remove ksp_limit on ppc64"
> 
> Should I submit a patch reverting this commit, or is there a better way to fix
> the problem on short notice (given that 3.13 is close) ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Guenter
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