Re: [PATCH] riscv: Fix linear mapping checks for non-contiguous memory regions

From: Alexandre Ghiti
Date: Mon Aug 26 2024 - 07:27:02 EST


Hi Geert,

On 20/08/2024 15:32, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Hi Stuart,

On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 1:43 PM Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The RISC-V kernel already has checks to ensure that memory which would
lie outside of the linear mapping is not used. However those checks
use memory_limit, which is used to implement the mem= kernel command
line option (to limit the total amount of memory, not its address
range). When memory is made up of two or more non-contiguous memory
banks this check is incorrect.

Two changes are made here:
- add a call in setup_bootmem() to memblock_cap_memory_range() which
will cause any memory which falls outside the linear mapping to be
removed from the memory regions.
- remove the check in create_linear_mapping_page_table() which was
intended to remove memory which is outside the liner mapping based
on memory_limit, as it is no longer needed. Note a check for
mapping more memory than memory_limit (to implement mem=) is
unnecessary because of the existing call to
memblock_enforce_memory_limit().

This issue was seen when booting on a SV39 platform with two memory
banks:
0x00,80000000 1GiB
0x20,00000000 32GiB
This memory range is 158GiB from top to bottom, but the linear mapping
is limited to 128GiB, so the lower block of RAM will be mapped at
PAGE_OFFSET, and the upper block straddles the top of the linear
mapping.

This causes the following Oops:
[ 0.000000] Linux version 6.10.0-rc2-gd3b8dd5b51dd-dirty (stuart.menefy@xxxxxxxxxxx) (riscv64-codasip-linux-gcc (GCC) 13.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.41.0.20231213) #20 SMP Sat Jun 22 11:34:22 BST 2024
[ 0.000000] memblock_add: [0x0000000080000000-0x00000000bfffffff] early_init_dt_add_memory_arch+0x4a/0x52
[ 0.000000] memblock_add: [0x0000002000000000-0x00000027ffffffff] early_init_dt_add_memory_arch+0x4a/0x52
...
[ 0.000000] memblock_alloc_try_nid: 23724 bytes align=0x8 nid=-1 from=0x0000000000000000 max_addr=0x0000000000000000 early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch+0x1e/0x48
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000027ffff5350-0x00000027ffffaffb] memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xb8/0x132
[ 0.000000] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffffe7fff5350
[ 0.000000] Oops [#1]
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-gd3b8dd5b51dd-dirty #20
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: codasip,a70x (DT)
[ 0.000000] epc : __memset+0x8c/0x104
[ 0.000000] ra : memblock_alloc_try_nid+0x74/0x84
[ 0.000000] epc : ffffffff805e88c8 ra : ffffffff806148f6 sp : ffffffff80e03d50
[ 0.000000] gp : ffffffff80ec4158 tp : ffffffff80e0bec0 t0 : fffffffe7fff52f8
[ 0.000000] t1 : 00000027ffffb000 t2 : 5f6b636f6c626d65 s0 : ffffffff80e03d90
[ 0.000000] s1 : 0000000000005cac a0 : fffffffe7fff5350 a1 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] a2 : 0000000000005cac a3 : fffffffe7fffaff8 a4 : 000000000000002c
[ 0.000000] a5 : ffffffff805e88c8 a6 : 0000000000005cac a7 : 0000000000000030
[ 0.000000] s2 : fffffffe7fff5350 s3 : ffffffffffffffff s4 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] s5 : ffffffff8062347e s6 : 0000000000000000 s7 : 0000000000000001
[ 0.000000] s8 : 0000000000002000 s9 : 00000000800226d0 s10: 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : ffffffff8080a928 t4 : ffffffff8080a928
[ 0.000000] t5 : ffffffff8080a928 t6 : ffffffff8080a940
[ 0.000000] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: fffffffe7fff5350 cause: 000000000000000f
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff805e88c8>] __memset+0x8c/0x104
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8062349c>] early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch+0x1e/0x48
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8043e892>] __unflatten_device_tree+0x52/0x114
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8062441e>] unflatten_device_tree+0x9e/0xb8
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff806046fe>] setup_arch+0xd4/0x5bc
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff806007aa>] start_kernel+0x76/0x81a
[ 0.000000] Code: b823 02b2 bc23 02b2 b023 04b2 b423 04b2 b823 04b2 (bc23) 04b2
[ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
[ 0.000000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---

The problem is that memblock (unaware that some physical memory cannot
be used) has allocated memory from the top of memory but which is
outside the linear mapping region.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: c99127c45248 ("riscv: Make sure the linear mapping does not use the kernel mapping")
Reviewed-by: David McKay <david.mckay@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 3b6564427aea83b7 ("riscv:
Fix linear mapping checks for non-contiguous memory regions") in
v6.11-rc2.

This causes the boot to hang on SiPEED MAiX BiT (K210 64-bit nommu):

Linux version 6.11.0-rc1-k210-00008-g3b6564427aea (geert@rox)
(riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0, GNU ld
(GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.38) #452 SMP Tue Aug 20 15:02:49 CEST 2024
Machine model: SiPeed MAIX BiT
Forcing kernel command line to: earlycon console=ttySIF0 rootdelay=2
root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 ro
earlycon: sifive0 at MMIO 0x0000000038000000 (options '115200n8')
printk: legacy bootconsole [sifive0] enabled
Zone ranges:
DMA32 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
Normal empty
Movable zone start for each node
Early memory node ranges
node 0: [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
Falling back to deprecated "riscv,isa"
riscv: base ISA extensions acdfim
riscv: ELF capabilities acdfim
percpu: max_distance=0x1a000 too large for vmalloc space 0x0
percpu: Embedded 13 pages/cpu s20512 r0 d32736 u53248
percpu: wasting 6 pages per chunk
Kernel command line: earlycon console=ttySIF0 rootdelay=2 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 ro
Dentry cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping off. Total pages: 2048
mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=0, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 25 jiffies.
NR_IRQS: 64, nr_irqs: 64, preallocated irqs: 0

Adding a bit of debug info shows:

setup_bootmem:236: old phys_ram_end = 0x80800000
setup_bootmem:258: max_mapped_addr = 0x7fffffff
setup_bootmem:259: memblock_cap_memory_range(0x80000000, 0xffffffffffffffff)
memblock_remove_range:857: Removing region at 0x80000000 size 0x20d1e8
setup_bootmem:281: new phys_ram_end = 0x80800000


Thank you very much for the report!

The following patch should fix this, can you give it a try?

diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index eb0649a61b4c..1785782c2e55 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
         * The size of the linear page mapping may restrict the amount of
         * usable RAM.
         */
-       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT)) {
+       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MMU)) {
                max_mapped_addr = __pa(PAGE_OFFSET) + KERN_VIRT_SIZE;
                memblock_cap_memory_range(phys_ram_base,
                                          max_mapped_addr - phys_ram_base);


It makes no sense to restrict physical memory size because of linear mapping size constraints when there is no linear mapping :)

I'll send a proper patch when you confirm it works for you :)

Thanks again,

Alex


--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -233,8 +233,6 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
*/
memblock_reserve(vmlinux_start, vmlinux_end - vmlinux_start);

- phys_ram_end = memblock_end_of_DRAM();
-
/*
* Make sure we align the start of the memory on a PMD boundary so that
* at worst, we map the linear mapping with PMD mappings.
@@ -249,6 +247,16 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MMU))
kernel_map.va_pa_offset = PAGE_OFFSET - phys_ram_base;

+ /*
+ * The size of the linear page mapping may restrict the amount of
+ * usable RAM.
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT)) {
+ max_mapped_addr = __pa(PAGE_OFFSET) + KERN_VIRT_SIZE;
+ memblock_cap_memory_range(phys_ram_base,
+ max_mapped_addr - phys_ram_base);
+ }
+
/*
* Reserve physical address space that would be mapped to virtual
* addresses greater than (void *)(-PAGE_SIZE) because:
@@ -265,6 +273,7 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
memblock_reserve(max_mapped_addr, (phys_addr_t)-max_mapped_addr);
}

+ phys_ram_end = memblock_end_of_DRAM();
min_low_pfn = PFN_UP(phys_ram_base);
max_low_pfn = max_pfn = PFN_DOWN(phys_ram_end);
high_memory = (void *)(__va(PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn)));
@@ -1289,8 +1298,6 @@ static void __init create_linear_mapping_page_table(void)
if (start <= __pa(PAGE_OFFSET) &&
__pa(PAGE_OFFSET) < end)
start = __pa(PAGE_OFFSET);
- if (end >= __pa(PAGE_OFFSET) + memory_limit)
- end = __pa(PAGE_OFFSET) + memory_limit;

create_linear_mapping_range(start, end, 0);
}
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert