Re: [PATCH] powerpc/603: Fix boot failure with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and KFENCE

[Michael Ellerman]

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Le 07/12/2021 à 11:34, Maxime Bizon a écrit :
>> 
>> On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 06:10 +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> With the patch applied and
>> 
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT=y
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y
>> 
>> I get tons of this during boot:
>> 
>> [    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes, linear)
>> [    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes, linear)
>> [    0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
>> [    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [    0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:194 set_pte_at+0x18/0x160
>> [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.15.0+ #442
>> [    0.000000] NIP:  80015ebc LR: 80016728 CTR: 800166e4
>> [    0.000000] REGS: 80751dd0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (5.15.0+)
>> [    0.000000] MSR:  00021032 <ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR: 42228882  XER: 20000000
>> [    0.000000]
>> [    0.000000] GPR00: 800b8dc8 80751e80 806c6300 807311d8 807a1000 8ffffe84 80751ea8 00000000
>> [    0.000000] GPR08: 007a1591 00000001 007a1180 00000000 42224882 00000000 3ff9c608 3fffd79c
>> [    0.000000] GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 800166e4 807a2000
>> [    0.000000] GPR24: 807a1fff 807311d8 807311d8 807a2000 80768804 00000000 807a1000 007a1180
>> [    0.000000] NIP [80015ebc] set_pte_at+0x18/0x160
>> [    0.000000] LR [80016728] set_page_attr+0x44/0xc0
>> [    0.000000] Call Trace:
>> [    0.000000] [80751e80] [80058570] console_unlock+0x340/0x428 (unreliable)
>> [    0.000000] [80751ea0] [00000000] 0x0
>> [    0.000000] [80751ec0] [800b8dc8] __apply_to_page_range+0x144/0x2a8
>> [    0.000000] [80751f00] [80016918] __kernel_map_pages+0x54/0x64
>> [    0.000000] [80751f10] [800cfeb0] __free_pages_ok+0x1b0/0x440
>> [    0.000000] [80751f50] [805cfc8c] memblock_free_all+0x1d8/0x274
>> [    0.000000] [80751f90] [805c5e0c] mem_init+0x3c/0xd0
>> [    0.000000] [80751fb0] [805c0bdc] start_kernel+0x404/0x5c4
>> [    0.000000] [80751ff0] [000033f0] 0x33f0
>> [    0.000000] Instruction dump:
>> [    0.000000] 7c630034 83e1000c 5463d97e 7c0803a6 38210010 4e800020 9421ffe0 93e1001c
>> [    0.000000] 83e60000 81250000 71290001 41820014 <0fe00000> 7c0802a6 93c10018 90010024
>> 
>> 
>
> That's unrelated to this patch.
>
> The problem is linked to patch c988cfd38e48 ("powerpc/32: use 
> set_memory_attr()"), which changed from using __set_pte_at() to using 
> set_memory_attr() which uses set_pte_at().
>
> set_pte_at() has additional checks and shall not be used to updating an 
> existing PTE.
>
> Wondering if I should just use __set_pte_at() instead like in the past, 
> or do like commit 9f7853d7609d ("powerpc/mm: Fix set_memory_*() against 
> concurrent accesses") and use pte_update()
>
> Michael, Aneesh, any suggestion ?

The motivation for using pte_update() in that commit is that it does the
update atomically and also handles flushing the HPTE for 64-bit Hash.

But the books/32 version of pte_update() doesn't do that. In fact
there's some HPTE handling in __set_pte_at(), but then also a comment
saying it's handling in a subsequent flush_tlb_xxx().

So that doesn't really help make a decision :)

On the other hand, could you convert those set_memory_attr() calls to
change_memory_attr() and then eventually drop the former?

cheers