[PATCH v6 14/14] x86: kdebugfs do not use __va for getting setup_data virt addr

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On Tue, 17 Dec, at 02:53:46PM, Dave Young wrote:
> On 12/17/13 at 02:24pm, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 12/16/13 at 04:35pm, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > > On Mon, 16 Dec, at 05:30:35PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > > > kdump kernel will use memmap=exactmap kernel cmdline, but __va does not
> > > > work in case memmap=exactmap, so let's always use ioremap_cache.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c | 35 +++++++++++------------------------
> > > >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > Dave, I've no idea why this change is necessary from the commit log. Is
> > > it required for kexec to function on EFI? Why does __va() not work in
> > > the memmap=exactmap case?
> > > 
> > 
> > During previous kdump tests I saw panics while reading the setup_data in debugfs.
> > I thought it is caused by some unmapped addresses. At that time I also reproduced
> > it by booting the non-kexec kernel with memmap=exact.
> > 
> > Since you are asking about this I'm testing it again but I seems can not
> > reproduce this problem any more, it's weird.
> > 
> > I should dug more about it and save the panic messages.
> > 
> > So let's drop this patch for now, I will keep an eye on this and address it later
> > if I can find the problem again.
> 
> Reproduced it again in normal boot with memmap=exactmap, but I agree it's a corner
> case, I remember I saw this in kdump kernel, but I still did not see it in today's
> testing so I think move this issue out of this patch series is fine to me.
 
Please include the following oops when you submit this patch again.

> [    0.359467] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8800d5592020
> [    0.359472] IP: [<ffffffff817dbdbc>] arch_kdebugfs_init+0x11a/0x201
> [    0.359474] PGD 316b067 PUD 37031063 PMD 0 
> [    0.359476] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP 
> [    0.359477] Modules linked in:
> [    0.359480] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.13.0-rc3+ #65
> [    0.359481] Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Z420 Workstation/1589, BIOS J61 v03.15 05/09/2013
> [    0.359482] task: ffff880037022000 ti: ffff880037188000 task.ti: ffff880037188000
> [    0.359484] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff817dbdbc>]  [<ffffffff817dbdbc>] arch_kdebugfs_init+0x11a/0x201
> [    0.359485] RSP: 0000:ffff880037189e30  EFLAGS: 00010286
> [    0.359486] RAX: ffff8800372e30e0 RBX: ffff8800372e30e0 RCX: 0000000000000191
> [    0.359486] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8168a39e RDI: ffff880037189e50
> [    0.359487] RBP: ffff880037189e90 R08: ffff8800372e30e0 R09: 0000000000000000
> [    0.359488] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88003640aea0
> [    0.359489] R13: 00000000d5592018 R14: ffff88003640b200 R15: ffff8800d5592018
> [    0.359490] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880037480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [    0.359491] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [    0.359491] CR2: ffff8800d5592020 CR3: 0000000002716000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
> [    0.359492] Stack:
> [    0.359494]  ffffffff817da6d5 ffff88003640b0e0 ffff88003640afc0 0000000000000004
> [    0.359496]  ffff880037180033 ffffffff8149d82d 00000000c9b42d58 ffffffff817dbca2
> [    0.359498]  0000000000000000 00000000000000f3 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> [    0.359499] Call Trace:
> [    0.359502]  [<ffffffff817da6d5>] ? boot_params_ksysfs_init+0x1ff/0x244
> [    0.359507]  [<ffffffff8149d82d>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
> [    0.359508]  [<ffffffff817dbca2>] ? topology_init+0x36/0x36
> [    0.359512]  [<ffffffff810002bf>] do_one_initcall+0xae/0x15b
> [    0.359515]  [<ffffffff81078500>] ? parameq+0xb/0x1f
> [    0.359516]  [<ffffffff81078770>] ? parse_args+0x25c/0x33a
> [    0.359519]  [<ffffffff817d5ec6>] kernel_init_freeable+0x115/0x19b
> [    0.359521]  [<ffffffff817d573d>] ? do_early_param+0x88/0x88
> [    0.359523]  [<ffffffff81489359>] ? rest_init+0xbd/0xbd
> [    0.359524]  [<ffffffff81489362>] kernel_init+0x9/0xfa
> [    0.359527]  [<ffffffff8149fd0c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> [    0.359528]  [<ffffffff81489359>] ? rest_init+0xbd/0xbd
> [    0.359548] Code: ff 48 85 c0 48 89 c3 0f 84 b9 00 00 00 49 bf 00 00 00 00 00 88 ff ff 4c 89 28 8b 55 bc 48 8d 7d c0 4d 01 ef 48 c 
> [    0.359549] RIP  [<ffffffff817dbdbc>] arch_kdebugfs_init+0x11a/0x201
> [    0.359550]  RSP <ffff880037189e30>
> [    0.359550] CR2: ffff8800d5592020
> [    0.359559] ---[ end trace d52b3fbe64a26115 ]---
> [    0.621287] kworker/u8:0 (43) used greatest stack depth: 5232 bytes left
> [    0.628021] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009
> [    0.628021] 

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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