On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 11:19:00AM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Doubling the number of memory regions worked, thanks. Like you've said,
> that's just a band-aid, as there could be platforms out there for which
> UEFI reports more regions than the static value that kvm-unit-tests
> assumes.
>
> If you don't mind a suggestion, you could run two passes on the UEFI memory
> map: the first pass finds the largest available memory region and uses that
> for initializing the memory allocators (could also count the number of
> memory regions that it finds, for example), the second pass creates the
> mem_regions array by allocating it dynamically (the allocators have been
> initialized in the previous pass). The same approach could be used when
> booting without UEFI.
>
> Or you can just set NR_EXTRA_MEM_REGIONS to something very large and call
> it a day :)
Yeah, let's just bump it to something large. We should also ensure it's
easy to debug when we hit the limit though. We have an assert() in
mem_region_add() already, but maybe we don't have an assert() in the
EFI code paths?
Thanks,
drew
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 07:23:05PM +0100, Nikos Nikoleris wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > On 22/07/2022 15:41, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> > > Hi Nikos,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 11:57:09AM +0100, Nikos Nikoleris wrote:
> > > > Hi Alex,
> > > >
> > > > On 19/07/2022 16:28, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I've been trying to test the seris and I've come across some issues.
> > > [..]
> > > > >
> > > > > The second error I'm encountering is when I try the selftest-setup test:
> > > > >
> > > > > [..]
> > > > > ProtectUefiImageCommon - 0x4D046040
> > > > > - 0x000000004BEC4000 - 0x000000000001F600
> > > > > SetUefiImageMemoryAttributes - 0x000000004BEC4000 - 0x0000000000001000 (0x0000000000004008)
> > > > > SetUefiImageMemoryAttributes - 0x000000004BEC5000 - 0x0000000000010000 (0x0000000000020008)
> > > > > SetUefiImageMemoryAttributes - 0x000000004BED5000 - 0x000000000000F000 (0x0000000000004008)
> > > > > InstallProtocolInterface: 752F3136-4E16-4FDC-A22A-E5F46812F4CA 4F8014E8
> > > > > SetUefiImageMemoryAttributes - 0x000000004F640000 - 0x0000000000040000 (0x0000000000000008)
> > > > > SetUefiImageMemoryAttributes - 0x000000004C2D0000 - 0x0000000000040000 (0x0000000000000008)
> > > > > SetUefiImageMemoryAttributes - 0x000000004C280000 - 0x0000000000040000 (0x0000000000000008)
> > > > > SetUefiImageMemoryAttributes - 0x000000004C230000 - 0x0000000000040000 (0x0000000000000008)
> > > > > SetUefiImageMemoryAttributes - 0x000000004C140000 - 0x0000000000040000 (0x0000000000000008)
> > > > > SetUefiImageMemoryAttributes - 0x000000004F600000 - 0x0000000000030000 (0x0000000000000008)
> > > > > SetUefiImageMemoryAttributes - 0x000000004C040000 - 0x0000000000030000 (0x0000000000000008)
> > > > > SetUefiImageMemoryAttributes - 0x000000004BFC0000 - 0x0000000000030000 (0x0000000000000008)
> > > > > Load address: 4bec4000
> > > > > PC: 4beca400 PC offset: 6400
> > > > > Unhandled exception ec=0x25 (DABT_EL1)
> > > > > Vector: 4 (el1h_sync)
> > > > > ESR_EL1: 96000000, ec=0x25 (DABT_EL1)
> > > > > FAR_EL1: 0000fffffffff0f8 (valid)
> > > > > Exception frame registers:
> > > > > pc : [<000000004beca400>] lr : [<000000004beca42c>] pstate: 400002c5
> > > > > sp : 000000004f7ffe40
> > > > > x29: 000000004f7ffff0 x28: 0000000000000000
> > > > > x27: 000000004d046040 x26: 0000000000000000
> > > > > x25: 0000000000000703 x24: 0000000000000050
> > > > > x23: 0000000009011000 x22: 0000000000000000
> > > > > x21: 000000000000001f x20: 0000fffffffff000
> > > > > x19: 0000000043f92000 x18: 0000000000000000
> > > > > x17: 00000000ffffa6ab x16: 000000004f513ebc
> > > > > x15: 0000000000000002 x14: 000000004bed5000
> > > > > x13: 000000004bee4000 x12: 000000004bed4000
> > > > > x11: 000000004bec4000 x10: 000000004c03febc
> > > > > x9 : 000000004bee2938 x8 : 0000000000000000
> > > > > x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000004bee2900
> > > > > x5 : 000000004bee2908 x4 : 0000000048000000
> > > > > x3 : 0000000048000000 x2 : 000000004bee2928
> > > > > x1 : 0000000000000003 x0 : ffffffffffffffff
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > EXIT: STATUS=127
> > > > >
> > > > > The preceding lines were omitted for brevity, the entire log can be found
> > > > > at [1] (expires in 6 months).
> > > > >
> > > > > Command used to launch the test:
> > > > >
> > > > > $ QEMU=/path/to/qemu/build/qemu-system-aarch64 EFI_UEFI=/path/to/QEMU_EFI.fd taskset -c 4-5 arm/efi/run arm/selftest.efi -smp 2 -m 256 -append "setup smp=2 mem=256"
> > > > >
> > > > > qemu has been built from source, tag v7.0.0, configured with:
> > > > >
> > > > > $ ./configure --target-list=aarch64-softmmu --disable-vnc --disable-gtk --disable-bpf
> > > > >
> > > > > EDK2 image has been built from commit e1eef3a8b01a ("NetworkPkg: Add Wi-Fi
> > > > > Wpa3 support in WifiConnectManager"):
> > > > >
> > > > > $ build -a AARCH64 -t GCC5 -p ArmVirtPkg/ArmVirtQemu.dsc -b DEBUG
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried to disassemble selftest.efi: $ objdump -d selftest.efi, but there
> > > > > were no debug symbols in the output and it was impossible to figure what is
> > > > > going on.
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] https://pastebin.com/0mcap1BU
> > > >
> > > > I haven't been to able to reproduce this. I've build from source qemu and
> > > > EDK2 from source (the revisions you provided) and I've used gcc-10 to
> > > > compile KUT but selftest-smp passes.
> > >
> > > That's weird, I've compiled kvm-unit-tests with gcc 10.3.0 [1] and I'm still
> > > seeing the error (tried it on my x86 machine), for both selftest-setup
> > > selftest-smp.
> > >
> > > Did you compile qemu and edk2 with gcc 10.3.0? Or did you use some other
> > > compiler?
> > >
> > > [1] https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu-a/10.3-2021.07/binrel/gcc-arm-10.3-2021.07-x86_64-aarch64-none-linux-gnu.tar.xz
> > >
> >
> > Thanks, I managed to reproduce this and found that with this configuration
> > there are more mem_regions than the assumed max. To work around it you can
> > change NR_EXTRA_MEM_REGIONS in lib/arm/setup.c to
> >
> > #define NR_EXTRA_MEM_REGIONS 32
> >
> > Doubling it would hopefully be enough to run tests for now but I will also
> > try to find out a better way to do this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Nikos
