Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] powerpc/ptdump: Convert powerpc to GENERIC_PTDUMP

[Nathan Chancellor]

Hi Christophe,

On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 04:49:43PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> This patch converts powerpc to the generic PTDUMP implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch as commit e084728393a5 ("powerpc/ptdump: Convert powerpc to
GENERIC_PTDUMP") in powerpc/next causes a panic with Fedora's ppc64le
config [1] when booting up in QEMU with [2]:

[    1.621864] BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0xc0eeff7f00000000
[    1.623058] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000045e5fc
[    1.623832] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[    1.624318] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
[    1.625015] Modules linked in:
[    1.625463] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc7-next-20210827 #16
[    1.626237] NIP:  c00000000045e5fc LR: c00000000045e580 CTR: c000000000518220
[    1.626839] REGS: c00000000752b820 TRAP: 0380   Not tainted  (5.14.0-rc7-next-20210827)
[    1.627528] MSR:  9000000002009033 <SF,HV,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 84002482  XER: 20000000
[    1.628449] CFAR: c000000000518300 IRQMASK: 0
[    1.628449] GPR00: c00000000045e580 c00000000752bac0 c0000000028a9300 0000000000000000
[    1.628449] GPR04: c200800000000000 ffffffffffffffff 000000000000000a 0000000000000001
[    1.628449] GPR08: c0eeff7f00000000 0000000000000012 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[    1.628449] GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000000002b20000 fffffffffffffffe c000000002971a70
[    1.628449] GPR16: c000000002960040 c0000000011a8f98 c00000000752bbf0 ffffffffffffffff
[    1.628449] GPR20: c2008fffffffffff c0eeff7f00000000 c000000002971a68 c00a0003ff000000
[    1.628449] GPR24: c000000002971a78 0000000000000002 0000000000000001 c0000000011a8f98
[    1.628449] GPR28: c0000000011a8f98 c0000000028daef8 c200800000000000 c200900000000000
[    1.634090] NIP [c00000000045e5fc] __walk_page_range+0x2bc/0xce0
[    1.635117] LR [c00000000045e580] __walk_page_range+0x240/0xce0
[    1.635755] Call Trace:
[    1.636018] [c00000000752bac0] [c00000000045e580] __walk_page_range+0x240/0xce0 (unreliable)
[    1.636811] [c00000000752bbd0] [c00000000045f234] walk_page_range_novma+0x74/0xb0
[    1.637459] [c00000000752bc20] [c000000000518448] ptdump_walk_pgd+0x98/0x170
[    1.638138] [c00000000752bc70] [c0000000000aa988] ptdump_check_wx+0x88/0xd0
[    1.638738] [c00000000752bd50] [c00000000008d6d8] mark_rodata_ro+0x48/0x80
[    1.639299] [c00000000752bdb0] [c000000000012a34] kernel_init+0x74/0x1a0
[    1.639842] [c00000000752be10] [c00000000000cfd4] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
[    1.640597] Instruction dump:
[    1.641021] 38e7ffff 39490010 7ce707b4 7fca5436 79081564 7d4a3838 7908f082 794a1f24
[    1.641740] 78a8f00e 30e6ffff 7ea85214 7ce73110 <7d48502a> 78f90fa4 2c2a0000 39290010
[    1.642771] ---[ end trace 6cf72b085097ad52 ]---
[    1.643220]
[    2.644228] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
[    2.645523] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b ]---

This is not compiler specific, I can reproduce it with GCC 11.2.0 and
binutils 2.37. If there is any additional information I can provide,
please let me know.

[1]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/raw/rawhide/f/kernel-ppc64le-fedora.config
[2]: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/boot-utils

Cheers,
Nathan