On 2021-06-30 11:37, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 05:35:43PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 04:14:55PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
On 2021-06-29 15:44, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 12:48:14PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
[ +ACPI audience ]
On 2021-06-25 12:15, Robin Murphy wrote:
On 2021-06-25 12:09, Catalin Marinas wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 12:02:52PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
On 2021-06-25 10:52, Veronika Kabatova wrote:
[...]
❌ stress: stress-ng
Oh no, this looks like another alignment fault in memcpy:
[13330.651903] Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address ffff8000534705ff
[...]
[13330.652218] Call trace:
[13330.652221] __memcpy+0x168/0x250
[13330.652225] acpi_data_show+0x5c/0x8c
[13330.652232] sysfs_kf_bin_read+0x78/0xa0
[13330.652238] kernfs_file_read_iter+0x9c/0x1a4
[13330.652241] kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x34/0x50
[13330.652244] new_sync_read+0xdc/0x154
[13330.652253] vfs_read+0x158/0x1e4
[13330.652260] ksys_read+0x64/0xec
[13330.652266] __arm64_sys_read+0x28/0x34
[13330.652273] invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
[13330.652280] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x4c/0xd4
[13330.652284] do_el0_svc+0x30/0x9c
[13330.652286] el0_svc+0x2c/0x54
[13330.652294] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1a4/0x1b0
[13330.652296] el0t_64_sync+0x19c/0x1a0
[13330.652303] Code: a984346c a9c4342c f1010042 54fffee8 (a97c3c8e)
[13330.652307] ---[ end trace 227d4380f57145d4 ]---
So maybe this issue isn't limited to weird modules, after all...
It ran on the machine from the same set that we were able to reproduce
it on previously. If you or anyone else have an idea on how
to stabilize the reproducibility or have a debug patch we'll be happy to try it.
Possibly it depends on the individual machines' firmware exactly how the
relevant bits of their ACPI tables are aligned in memory?
I've started digging into that callstack - it may not be a "weird module"
but it's definitely crusty ACPI code... a238317ce818 ("ACPI: Clean up
acpi_os_map/unmap_memory() to eliminate __iomem.") looks frankly a bit
questionable in its decision to blithely cast away __iomem, but then the
rationale in aafc65c731fe ("ACPI: add arm64 to the platforms that use
ioremap") seems particularly dubious on top of that (especially
given this end result).
[...]
After picking through the UEFI spec I think I've now got a clearer picture
of what's happening, but I'm not sure where it goes from here...
The spec implies that it *is* legitimate for runtime-loaded ACPI tables to
lie outside the EFI memory map, and that case they must be assumed to be
uncached, so the behaviour of acpi_os_ioremap() is correct.
I'd agree with the reasoning, it would be good to pinpoint whether
that's what actually triggers the issue.
I'd like to replicate it if possible (it is TX2 HW but firmware
config is likely to differ from the HW I have at hand), the
test command line that triggers the fault would be useful as
a starting point.
Furthermore, is this a v5.13-rc* regression ? If so it would be
good to bisect it - I can't recollect arm64 changes that could
have introduced this regression in the last cycle but I may have
missed something.
The actual change which has brought this to light is the update to arm64's
memcpy() routine for 5.13 - the new version is more aggressive at making
unaligned loads from the source buffer, so now triggers alignment faults
more readily when (wrongly) used on iomem mappings in places that were
getting away with it by chance under the previous implementation (see also
[1], for example).
I wouldn't revert any of the memcpy() stuff as it just uncovered an
existing bug in how the ACPI tables are handled. Could we actually hit
a similar issue with C code parsing the ACPI tables?
I agree - I don't think a revert should be considered, this looks like
a long standing ACPI bug.
This needs debugging but I believe that it all depends on the table
being in the EFI map or not. I'd help a lot if I managed to reproduce
the bug for a given set-up so that we can check which table is causing
it.
Is there a way to map the ACPI tables as Normal Noncacheable
(ioremap_wc)?
That's a good point. IIUC UEFI 2.9 (2.3.6) requires tables loaded at
runtime (see above - I really would like to understand what table
is triggering this bug) that are not in the EFI memory map and whose
attributes cannot be retrieved through ACPI descriptors to be considered
non-cacheable.
The question is whether [arm64] acpi_os_ioremap() can be changed so that
the above is mapped to Normal NC rather than device-nGnRnE; this may
cause surprises the other way around (given that dev-nGnRnE is an
all encompassing fallback - again IIUC, I believe Ard knows better
than me if he has time to chime in).
We need a reproducer and some tracing in the ACPI code.
Having looked even more at the sysfs code, I think this might not
actually be an ACPI table per se, but specifically only the Generic
Error Status Block pointed to by the BERT (so maybe it also requires the
machine to have experienced a boot-time error to be present?). ACPI
merely says that this is "a range of addressable memory" and "System
firmware must report this memory range as firmware reserved", so I have
no idea whether there's any specific expectation of how it's supposed to
be mapped.
Robin.
