Re: BUG() at boot in __phys_addr with DEBUG_VIRTUAL

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Nov 12 2014 - 10:22:27 EST


On 11/12/2014 07:11 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> > [ 1.161406] __phys_addr() x: 0x000078009d3c6000
>> > [ 1.166567] __phys_addr() origx: 0x000000009d3c6000
>> > [ 1.171832] __phys_addr() y: 0x000000011d3c6000
>> > [ 1.176999] __phys_addr() __START_KERNEL_map: 0xffffffff80000000
>> > [ 1.183841] __phys_addr() PAGE_OFFSET: 0xffff880000000000
>> > [ 1.189993] __phys_addr() x valid: 0
>> >
>> > So it looks like the root cause is a physical address getting pass in in
>> > the first place instead of a virtual.
> I'd say that's on purpose as we're mapping kernel text 1:1 in the EFI
> page table.

__pa and friends do their calculations *against* PAGE_OFFSET to do the
virt<->phys translation. If that's not what a caller wants, then
they're calling the wrong function.

The path that we're actually hitting this from is:

> __split_large_page(struct cpa_data *cpa, pte_t *kpte, unsigned long
...
> if (pfn_range_is_mapped(PFN_DOWN(__pa(address)),
> PFN_DOWN(__pa(address)) + 1))
> split_page_count(level);

So perhaps efi_map_region() is handing an address from the EFI identity
map down in here. __pa() gets called on it, but that fails since __pa()
only works on the *KERNEL* identity map.

I think we might actually need to walk the page tables in there. Even
the pfn_range_is_mapped() code looks to be dealing with the kernel
identity map.
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