Hi Alistair, On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 22:18:44 +1000 Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The invalidate_range() is going to become an architecture specific mmu > notifier used to keep the TLB of secondary MMUs such as an IOMMU in > sync with the CPU page tables. Currently it is called from separate > code paths to the main CPU TLB invalidations. This can lead to a > secondary TLB not getting invalidated when required and makes it hard > to reason about when exactly the secondary TLB is invalidated. > > To fix this move the notifier call to the architecture specific TLB > maintenance functions for architectures that have secondary MMUs > requiring explicit software invalidations. > > This fixes a SMMU bug on ARM64. On ARM64 PTE permission upgrades > require a TLB invalidation. This invalidation is done by the > architecutre specific ptep_set_access_flags() which calls > flush_tlb_page() if required. However this doesn't call the notifier > resulting in infinite faults being generated by devices using the SMMU > if it has previously cached a read-only PTE in it's TLB. > > Moving the invalidations into the TLB invalidation functions ensures > all invalidations happen at the same time as the CPU invalidation. The > architecture specific flush_tlb_all() routines do not call the > notifier as none of the IOMMUs require this. > > Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> I found below kernel NULL-dereference issue on latest mm-unstable tree, and bisect points me to the commit of this patch, namely 75c400f82d347af1307010a3e06f3aa5d831d995. To reproduce, I use 'stress-ng --bigheap $(nproc)'. The issue happens as soon as it starts reclaiming memory. I didn't dive deep into this yet, but reporting this issue first, since you might have an idea already. [ 69.824805] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000498 [ 69.826983] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 69.828716] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 69.830249] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 69.830784] Oops: 0000 [#4] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 69.831881] CPU: 2 PID: 201 Comm: kworker/u72:2 Tainted: G D W 6.5.0-rc1+ #311 [ 69.834221] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-pr4 [ 69.837459] Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-251:0) [ 69.839422] RIP: 0010:arch_tlbbatch_flush (include/linux/mmu_notifier.h:497 (discriminator 3) arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1268 (discriminator 3)) [ 69.841140] Code: e8 c5 dd d2 00 bf 01 00 00 00 e8 0b df 05 00 65 8b 05 cc 90 f9 63 85 c0 74 4b 65 48c Code starting with the faulting instruction =========================================== 0: e8 c5 dd d2 00 callq 0xd2ddca 5: bf 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%edi a: e8 0b df 05 00 callq 0x5df1a f: 65 8b 05 cc 90 f9 63 mov %gs:0x63f990cc(%rip),%eax # 0x63f990e2 16: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax 18: 74 4b je 0x65 1a: 65 gs 1b: 8c .byte 0x8c [ 69.846840] RSP: 0000:ffffbf77007fb048 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 69.848464] RAX: ffff9bfd81970000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 69.851016] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 69.853070] RBP: ffffbf77007fb068 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 69.855213] R10: ffff9bfd81970f10 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9bfd81970f10 [ 69.857456] R13: ffff9c1bbd4b28c0 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: ffffe75b88f4a808 [ 69.860213] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9c1bbd480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 69.862211] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 69.863624] CR2: 0000000000000498 CR3: 00000001112ca000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 69.865907] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 69.868146] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 69.870414] Call Trace: [ 69.871222] <TASK> [ 69.871823] ? show_regs (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:479) [ 69.872855] ? __die_body (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:421) [ 69.873733] ? __die (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:435) [ 69.874576] ? page_fault_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:707) [ 69.875657] ? search_bpf_extables (kernel/bpf/core.c:751) [ 69.876854] ? arch_tlbbatch_flush (include/linux/mmu_notifier.h:497 (discriminator 3) arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1268 (discriminator 3)) [ 69.878146] ? search_exception_tables (kernel/extable.c:64) [ 69.879931] ? kernelmode_fixup_or_oops (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:762) [ 69.881284] ? __bad_area_nosemaphore (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:860) [ 69.882722] ? bad_area_nosemaphore (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:867) [ 69.884276] ? do_user_addr_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1458) [ 69.885800] ? check_preemption_disabled (lib/smp_processor_id.c:42) [ 69.887428] ? exc_page_fault (arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:695 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1495 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1543) [ 69.888435] ? asm_exc_page_fault (arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:570) [ 69.889955] ? arch_tlbbatch_flush (include/linux/mmu_notifier.h:497 (discriminator 3) arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1268 (discriminator 3)) [ 69.891564] ? arch_tlbbatch_flush (arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:104 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1267 (discriminator 1)) [ 69.892779] try_to_unmap_flush_dirty (mm/rmap.c:622 mm/rmap.c:632) [ 69.893970] shrink_folio_list (mm/vmscan.c:2015) [ 69.895243] shrink_inactive_list (include/linux/spinlock.h:376 mm/vmscan.c:2616) [ 69.896816] shrink_lruvec (mm/vmscan.c:2855 mm/vmscan.c:6303) [ 69.897952] ? rmqueue_bulk (mm/page_alloc.c:2228) [ 69.899385] shrink_node (mm/vmscan.c:6491 mm/vmscan.c:6524) [ 69.900447] do_try_to_free_pages (mm/vmscan.c:6705 mm/vmscan.c:6825) [ 69.901548] try_to_free_pages (mm/vmscan.c:7060) [ 69.902540] __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0 (include/linux/sched/mm.h:380 mm/page_alloc.c:3716 mm/page_alloc.c:3735 mm/page_alloc.c:4140) [ 69.904307] ? sched_cpu_deactivate (kernel/sched/core.c:9728) [ 69.905427] __alloc_pages (mm/page_alloc.c:4525) [ 69.906735] alloc_pages (mm/mempolicy.c:2284) [ 69.907604] new_slab (mm/slub.c:1866 mm/slub.c:2009 mm/slub.c:2062) [ 69.908414] ? chksum_update (crypto/crc32c_generic.c:88) [ 69.909348] ___slab_alloc (mm/slub.c:3216 (discriminator 3)) [ 69.910093] ? ext4_mb_new_blocks (fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5538 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:6129) [ 69.911885] ? __enqueue_entity (kernel/sched/fair.c:646) [ 69.913085] ? x2apic_send_IPI (arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:196 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:229 arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:240 arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c:126 arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c:48) [ 69.914143] ? native_smp_send_reschedule (arch/x86/kernel/apic/ipi.c:72) [ 69.915777] ? sbitmap_find_bit (lib/sbitmap.c:146 lib/sbitmap.c:178 lib/sbitmap.c:199) [ 69.917011] ? ext4_mb_new_blocks (fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5538 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:6129) [ 69.917996] __slab_alloc.isra.0 (mm/slub.c:3314) [ 69.919309] kmem_cache_alloc (mm/slub.c:3367 mm/slub.c:3460 mm/slub.c:3478 mm/slub.c:3485 mm/slub.c:3494) [ 69.920239] ? ext4_mb_new_blocks (fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5538 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:6129) [ 69.921291] ext4_mb_new_blocks (fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5538 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:6129) [ 69.922496] ? ext4_cache_extents (fs/ext4/extents.c:543 (discriminator 2)) [ 69.923591] ext4_ext_map_blocks (fs/ext4/extents.c:4286) [ 69.925039] ext4_map_blocks (fs/ext4/inode.c:621) [ 69.926478] ? kmem_cache_alloc (arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:55 include/linux/memcontrol.h:1777 mm/slab.h:522 mm/slab.h:770 mm/slub.c:3470 mm/slub.c:3478 mm/slub.c:3485 mm/slub.c:3494) [ 69.927813] ? ext4_alloc_io_end_vec (fs/ext4/page-io.c:61) [ 69.928851] ext4_do_writepages (fs/ext4/inode.c:2159 fs/ext4/inode.c:2212 fs/ext4/inode.c:2677) [ 69.930008] ? update_sd_lb_stats.constprop.0 (kernel/sched/fair.c:9501 kernel/sched/fair.c:10163) [ 69.931662] ext4_writepages (fs/ext4/inode.c:2766) [ 69.932728] do_writepages (mm/page-writeback.c:2553) [ 69.933403] ? __wb_calc_thresh (mm/page-writeback.c:875) [ 69.934168] __writeback_single_inode (fs/fs-writeback.c:1603) [ 69.935101] ? _raw_spin_unlock (arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:104 include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:186) [ 69.936219] writeback_sb_inodes (fs/fs-writeback.c:1896) [ 69.937408] __writeback_inodes_wb (fs/fs-writeback.c:1966) [ 69.938612] wb_writeback (fs/fs-writeback.c:2072) [ 69.939548] wb_workfn (fs/fs-writeback.c:2142 fs/fs-writeback.c:2230 fs/fs-writeback.c:2257) [ 69.940439] ? __switch_to (arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:300 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c:583) [ 69.941694] process_one_work (arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 include/linux/jump_label.h:207 include/trace/events/workqueue.h:108 kernel/workqueue.c:2602) [ 69.943189] worker_thread (include/linux/list.h:292 kernel/workqueue.c:2749) [ 69.944403] ? __pfx_worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:2691) [ 69.945491] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:389) [ 69.946333] ? __pfx_kthread (kernel/kthread.c:342) [ 69.947109] ret_from_fork (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:314) [ 69.948097] </TASK> [ 69.948944] Modules linked in: ppdev input_leds joydev parport_pc parport serio_raw qemu_fw_cfg mac_hi [ 69.958916] Dumping ftrace buffer: [ 69.961197] (ftrace buffer empty) [ 69.962797] CR2: 0000000000000498 [ 69.964431] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 69.966440] RIP: 0010:arch_tlbbatch_flush (include/linux/mmu_notifier.h:497 (discriminator 3) arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1268 (discriminator 3)) [ 69.969546] Code: e8 c5 dd d2 00 bf 01 00 00 00 e8 0b df 05 00 65 8b 05 cc 90 f9 63 85 c0 74 4b 65 48c Code starting with the faulting instruction =========================================== 0: e8 c5 dd d2 00 callq 0xd2ddca 5: bf 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%edi a: e8 0b df 05 00 callq 0x5df1a f: 65 8b 05 cc 90 f9 63 mov %gs:0x63f990cc(%rip),%eax # 0x63f990e2 16: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax 18: 74 4b je 0x65 1a: 65 gs 1b: 8c .byte 0x8c [ 69.979017] RSP: 0000:ffffbf770005f6d8 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 69.981894] RAX: ffff9bfd8090af80 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 69.985344] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 69.988499] RBP: ffffbf770005f6f8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 69.991677] R10: ffff9bfd8090be90 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9bfd8090be90 [ 69.994926] R13: ffff9c1bbd4f28c0 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: ffffe75b84499d08 [ 69.998152] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9c1bbd480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 70.001874] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 70.004419] CR2: 0000000000000498 CR3: 00000001112ca000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 70.007517] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 70.010951] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Thanks, SJ [...]