On 09/10/17 10:24, Will Deacon wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 02:42:13AM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Since 4.14-rc1 I am seeing frequent oopses during module loading (e.g., >> MMC, USB) from initrd on aarch64. Symptoms are similar to this in -rc3: >> >> [ OK ] Started udev Coldplug all Devices. >> [ 10.117775] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs >> [ 10.118235] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address >> ffff000008e5abc0 >> [ 10.118238] Mem abort info: >> [ 10.118245] Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits >> [ 10.118249] SET = 0, FnV = 0 >> [ 10.118253] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 >> [ 10.118256] Data abort info: >> [ 10.118261] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006 >> [ 10.118264] CM = 0, WnR = 0 >> [ 10.118274] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgd = ffff0000094a5000 >> [ 10.118279] [ffff000008e5abc0] *pgd=00000000bfffe003, >> *pud=00000000bfffd003, *pmd=0000000000000000 >> [ 10.118299] Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] SMP >> [ 10.118305] Modules linked in: fixed usbcore(+) sunxi_mmc mmc_core >> phy_sun4i_usb sg >> [ 10.118341] CPU: 3 PID: 49 Comm: kworker/3:1 Not tainted >> 4.14.0-rc3-2.gf27997b-default #1 >> [ 10.118345] Hardware name: sunxi sunxi/sunxi, BIOS 2017.05-rc1 04/13/2017 >> [ 10.118369] Workqueue: events deferred_probe_work_func >> [ 10.118378] task: ffff80007c8f4000 task.stack: ffff0000099d8000 >> [ 10.118394] PC is at __of_match_node.part.1+0x48/0x88 >> [ 10.118403] LR is at of_match_node+0x40/0x70 >> [ 10.118411] pc : [<ffff00000879aed0>] lr : [<ffff00000879af50>] > > [...] > >> This has been observed on Pine64 (>60%; also by Stefan) and Odroid-C2; >> my other arm64 boards such as Raspberry Pi 3 have not run into this so >> far. No such problems on 32-bit boards. >> >> This is using the openSUSE config: >> https://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/plain/config/arm64/default > > Hmm, hard to know what to suggest without a concrete reproducer. Do you know > which driver is being probed in the log above? Also, does this still break > if you pass "keepinitrd" on the cmdline? Finally, can you dump the kernel > virtual memory layout, please? FWIW, this looks a lot like what happens when a built-in driver's of_match_table is marked __init, but for whatever reason (deferred probe etc.) winds up getting poked by a module load after it no longer exists. Robin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html