> -----Original Message----- > From: Bhupesh Sharma [mailto:bhsharma@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 2018年5月30日 16:39 > To: Jin, Yanjiang <yanjiang.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Pratyush Anand > <pratyush.anand@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jinyanjiang@xxxxxxxxx; horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx; > Zheng, Joey <yu.zheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: update PHYS_OFFSET to conform to kernel > > Hi Yanjiang, > > On 05/30/2018 01:09 PM, Jin, Yanjiang wrote: > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Pratyush Anand [mailto:pratyush.anand@xxxxxxxxx] > >> Sent: 2018年5月30日 12:16 > >> To: Jin, Yanjiang <yanjiang.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> Cc: kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jinyanjiang@xxxxxxxxx; > >> horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx > >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: update PHYS_OFFSET to conform to kernel > >> > >> Hi Yanjiang, > >> > >> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Jin, Yanjiang > >> <yanjiang.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> wrote: > >>> Hi Pratyush, > >>> > >>> Thanks for your help! but please see my reply inline. > >>> > >> > >> [...] > >> > >>>>> If an application, for example, vmcore-dmesg, wants to access the > >>>>> kernel symbol which is located in the last 2M address, it would > >>>>> fail with the below error: > >>>>> > >>>>> "No program header covering vaddr 0xffff8017ffe90000 found kexec > bug?" > >>>> > >>>> I think, fix might not be correct. > >>>> > >>>> Problem is in vmcore-dmesg and that should be fixed and not the kexec. > >>>> See here (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec- > >>>> tools.git/tree/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c?id=HEAD#n261). > >>> > >>> Firstly, for my patch, vmcore-dmesg is just an auxiliary application > >>> to help to > >> reproduce this issue. The function, which is to generate vmcore, is the root > cause. > >> > >> ...and the function which generates vmcore is not the kexec rather > >> the secondary kernel. > >> > >>> > >>> On the other hand, vmcore-dmesg is under kexec-tools, it has no a > >>> standalone > >> git repo. Even we want to fix vmcore-dmesg, we still need to send > >> the patch to kexec-tools, right? > >> > >> Sure. I meant `kexec` application. We have three applications in kexec-tools. > >> `kexec`, `vmcore-dmesg` and `kdump`. [I hope kdump is useless and we > >> are going to get rid off it very soon.] > >> > >>> > >>> Yanjiang > >>> > >>>> How symbols are extracted from vmcore. > >>>> > >>>> You do have "NUMBER(PHYS_OFFSET)=" information in vmcore. > >>>> > >>>> You can probably see makedumpfile code, that how to extract > >>>> information from "NUMBER". > >>> > >>> I have seen makedumpfile before, NUMBER(number) is just read a > >>> number > >> from vmcore. But as I show before, the root issue is vmcore contains > >> a wrong number, my patch is to fix the vmcore generating issue, we > >> can't read vmcore at this point since we don't have vmcore yet. > >> > >> ..and IIUC, you were able to reach correctly till the end of > >> secondary kernel where you tried vmcore-dmesg and then you had issue, > right? > >> > >> How did you conclude that vmcore contains wrong number? It's > >> unlikely, but if it does then we have problem somewhere in Linux kernel , not > here. > > > > Hi Pratyush, > > > > I think I have found the root cause. In Linux kernel, memblock_mark_nomap() > will reserve some memory ranges for EFI, such as EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA, > EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA. On my environment, the first 2M memory is > EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA, so it can't be seen in kernel. We also can't set > this EFI memory as "reserved", only EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY's memory can > be set as "reserved" and seen in kernel. > > So I don't think this is a kernel issue, we should fix it in kexec-tools. > > Attach kernel's call stack for reference. > > > > drivers/firmware/efi/arm-init.c > > > > efi_init()->reserve_regions()->memblock_mark_nomap() > > > > Hi Bhupesh, > > > > I guess your environment has no EFI support, or the first memblock is not > reserved for EFI, so you can't reproduce this issue. > > Perhaps you missed reading my earlier threads on the subject of > EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY regions being mapped as NOMAP and how it > causes the crashkernel to panic (please go through [1]). > > As of now we haven't found a acceptable-to-all solution for the issue and it needs > to be fixed in the 'kexec-tools' with a minor fix in the kernel side as well. > > So, coming back to my environment details, it has both EFI support as well as EFI > ACPI RECLAIM regions. > > However we may be hitting a special case in your environment, so I think before > we can discuss your patch further (as both Pratyush and myself have concerns > with the same), would request you to share the > following: > > - output of kernel dmesg with 'efi=debug' added in the bootargs (which will help > us see how the memblocks are marked at your setup - I am specifically interested > in the logs after the line 'Processing EFI memory map'), I made more investigation on my board. I believe that the firmware design leads this differences between our environments: My firmware defines the first two EFI block as below: Region1: 0x000000000000-0x000000200000 [EfiReservedMemType] Region2: 0x000000200000-0x00000021fffff [EfiRuntimeServiceData] But EFI API won't return the "EfiReservedMemType" memory to Linux kernel for security reasons, so kernel can't get any info about the first mem block, kernel can only see region2 as below: efi: Processing EFI memory map: efi: 0x000000200000-0x00000021ffff [Runtime Data |RUN| | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] # head -1 /proc/iomem 00200000-0021ffff : reserved There are many EfiReservedMemType regions in ARM64's firmware if it supports TrustZone, but if a firmware doesn't put this type of memory region at the start of physical memory, this error wouldn't happen. I don't think firmware has error since it can reserve any memory regions, we'd better update kexec-tools. Anyway, read memstart_addr from /dev/mem can always get a correct value if DEVMEM is defined. Regards! Yanjiang > - if you are using a public arm64 platform maybe you can share the CONFIG file, > - output of 'cat /proc/iomem' > > [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg616632.html > > Thanks, > Bhupesh > > >> Have you tried to extract "PHYS_OFFSET" from vmcore either in > >> vmcore-dmesg or in makedumpfile and found it not matching to the value of > "PHYS_OFFSET" > >> from first kernel? > >> > >> In my understanding flow is like this: > >> > >> - First kernel will have reserved area for secondary kernel, as well as for > elfcore. > >> - First kernel will embed all the vmcore information notes into > >> elfcore (see > >> crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init() -> arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo()). > >> Therefore, we will have PHYS_OFFSET, kimage_voffset and VA_BITS > >> information for first kernel in vmcore, which is in separate memory > >> and can be read by second kernel > >> - elfcore will also have notes about all the other physical memory of > >> first kernel which need to be copied by second kernel. > >> - Now when crash happens, second kernel should have all the required > >> info for reading symbols from first kernel's physical memory, no? > >> > >>> > >>> NUMBER(number) = read_vmcoreinfo_ulong(STR_NUMBER(str_number)) > >>> > >>> Yanjiang > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Once you know the real PHYS_OFFSET (which could have been random if > >>>> KASLR is enabled), you can fix the problem you are seeing. > >>> > >>> I have both validated with/without KASLR, all of them worked well > >>> after > >> applying my patch. > >> > >> IMHO, even if that works it does not mean that its good a fix. We > >> should try to find root cause. Moreover, you might not have /dev/mem > >> available for all the configuration where KASLR is enabled. > >> > >> Regards > >> Pratyush > > > > > > > > This email is intended only for the named addressee. It may contain > information that is confidential/private, legally privileged, or copyright-protected, > and you should handle it accordingly. If you are not the intended recipient, you > do not have legal rights to retain, copy, or distribute this email or its contents, and > should promptly delete the email and all electronic copies in your system; do not > retain copies in any media. If you have received this email in error, please notify > the sender promptly. Thank you. > > > > This email is intended only for the named addressee. It may contain information that is confidential/private, legally privileged, or copyright-protected, and you should handle it accordingly. 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