Re: Crash in msm serial on dragonboard with ftrace bootargs

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:08:25 +0530
Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On dragonboard 410c, with "ftrace=function" boot args, the console 
> output slows down and board resets without any backtrace as below. This 
> is tested on latest kernel and seems to exist even in older kernels as well.

So this only happens when ftrace=function is on the boot console.


> 
> [    2.949164] EINJ: ACPI disabled.
> [    3.133001] Serial: 8250/16550 dri
> Format: Log Type - Time(microsec) - Message - Optional Info
> Log Type: B - Since Boot(Power On Reset),  D - Delta,  S - Statistic
> 
> But with pstore enabled, able to get the below backtrace:
> 
> <4>[    2.949164] EINJ: ACPI disabled.
> <6>[    3.133001] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> <6>[    3.164097] SuperH (H)SCI(F) driver initialized
> <0>[    3.164471] Internal error: synchronous external abort: 96000010 
> [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> <4>[    3.164479] Modules linked in:
> <4>[    3.164495] CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 
> 4.19.0-rc8-00008-ge033b9909fff-dirty #175
> <4>[    3.164501] Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. APQ 8016 
> SBC (DT)
> <4>[    3.164508] pstate: 40000085 (nZcv daIf -PAN -UAO)
> <4>[    3.164514] pc : msm_read.isra.2+0x20/0x50
> <4>[    3.164520] lr : msm_read.isra.2+0x1c/0x50
> <4>[    3.164526] sp : ffff000008033a50
> <4>[    3.164531] x29: ffff000008033a50 x28: ffff000009486018
> <4>[    3.164548] x27: 0000000000000001 x26: ffff7dfffe7ff070
> <4>[    3.164565] x25: 0000000000000034 x24: ffff000009486000
> <4>[    3.164582] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffff00000978e190
> <4>[    3.164599] x21: ffff0000095e8228 x20: 0000000000000034
> <4>[    3.164616] x19: ffff7dfffe7ff008 x18: ffffffffffffffff
> <4>[    3.164632] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
> <4>[    3.164649] x15: ffff0000094a96c8 x14: ffff00008978e6bf
> <4>[    3.164666] x13: ffff00000978e6cd x12: 0000000000000038
> <4>[    3.164683] x11: ffff0000094c6000 x10: 0000000000000c24
> <4>[    3.164699] x9 : ffff80003c89b400 x8 : ffff000008033970
> <4>[    3.164716] x7 : ffff80000eb04100 x6 : 00000000000af304
> <4>[    3.164732] x5 : 0000000000000c40 x4 : ffff80003c06f000
> <4>[    3.164750] x3 : ffff80003c89b498 x2 : 0000000000000000
> <4>[    3.164766] x1 : ffff80003ca68000 x0 : 0000000000000800
> <0>[    3.164785] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, stack limit = 
> 0x(____ptrval____))
> <4>[    3.164791] Call trace:
> <4>[    3.164797]  msm_read.isra.2+0x20/0x50
> <4>[    3.164804]  msm_reset_dm_count+0x44/0x80
> <4>[    3.164810]  __msm_console_write+0x1c8/0x1d0
> <4>[    3.164816]  msm_serial_early_write_dm+0x3c/0x50
> <4>[    3.164823]  console_unlock.part.6+0x468/0x528
> <4>[    3.164829]  vprintk_emit+0x210/0x218
> <4>[    3.164835]  vprintk_default+0x48/0x58
> <4>[    3.164841]  vprintk_func+0xf0/0x1c0
> <4>[    3.164847]  printk+0x74/0x94
> <4>[    3.164853]  sci_init+0x24/0x3c
> <4>[    3.164859]  do_one_initcall+0x54/0x248
> <4>[    3.164866]  kernel_init_freeable+0x210/0x378
> <4>[    3.164872]  kernel_init+0x18/0x118
> <4>[    3.164878]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x1c
> <0>[    3.164884] Code: aa1e03e0 8b214273 97e616f7 d503201f (b9400260)
> 
> Seems to be issue with the msm serial driver and not ftrace.
> Could someone look into it.

I'm guessing that there may have been an issue with ftrace, it tried to
print, but the printing caused a bug that rebooted the box.

Does function tracing work after boot up? That is, without the
ftrace=function, can you do:

 echo function > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

without any issue?

> 
> One more thing is for pstore dmesg-ramoops, I had to change 
> late_initcall to postcore_initcall which brings the question as to why 
> we changed to late_initcall?
> Simple git blame shows to support crypto compress api, but is it really 
> helpful? A lot of boottime issues can be caught with pstore enabled at 
> postcore_initcall rather than late_initcall, this backtrace
> is just one example. Is there any way we could change this?

Does it break if the crypto is not initialized? Perhaps add a command
line flag to have it happen earlier:

 ramoops=earlyinit

and add a postcore_initcall that checks if that flag is set, and if so,
it does the work then, and the late_initcall() will do nothing.

That way, you can still have unmodified kernels use pstore when it
crashes at boot up.

-- Steve