On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 6:24 AM Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 at 17:34, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 8, 2024, at 12:53, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > The following warning was noticed while boot arm and arm64 devices.
> > > The below log is extracted from arm64 ROCK Pi 4B while booting and
> > > another issue is kernel oops noticed while testing selftests: kvm:
> > > memslot_perf_test.
> > >
> > > 1) WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 201 at mm/vmalloc.c:315 ioremap_page_range
> > > 2) Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> > > Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception in interrupt
> > >
> > > Please find steps to reproduce, logs and config file links below.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> > The warning was added by commit 3e49a866c9dc ("mm: Enforce
> > VM_IOREMAP flag and range in ioremap_page_range.").
> >
> > This indeed uses a special memory area at a fixed physical address,
> > but I don't see where the vm_struct comes from.
>
> Thanks for your explanation.
>
> > No idea here, but it seems unrelated to the first one.
>
> I will reproduce this issue a few more times and get back to you.
See the proposed fix:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQLP=dxBb+RiMGXoaCEuRrbK387J6B+pfzWKF_F=aRgCPQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
but Christoph believes a different approach is necessary:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/Zeso7eNj1sBhH5zY@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
