On 7/5/2013 5:05 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
Am Donnerstag 04 Juli 2013, 22:34:11 schrieb Helge Deller:
When running the LTP testsuite one may hit this kernel BUG() with the
write06 testcase:
kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:2023!
CPU: 1 PID: 8614 Comm: writev01 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc7-64bit-c3000+ #6
IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 00000000401e6e84
00000000401e6e88 IIR: 03ffe01f ISR: 0000000010340000 IOR:
000001fbe0380820
CPU: 1 CR30: 00000000bef80000 CR31: ffffffffffffffff
ORIG_R28: 00000000bdc192c0
IAOQ[0]: iov_iter_advance+0x3c/0xc0
IAOQ[1]: iov_iter_advance+0x40/0xc0
RP(r2): generic_file_buffered_write+0x204/0x3f0
Backtrace:
[<00000000401e764c>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x204/0x3f0
[<00000000401eab24>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x244/0x448
[<00000000401eadc0>] generic_file_aio_write+0x98/0x150
[<000000004024f460>] do_sync_readv_writev+0xc0/0x130
[<000000004025037c>] compat_do_readv_writev+0x12c/0x340
[<00000000402505f8>] compat_writev+0x68/0xa0
[<0000000040251d88>] compat_SyS_writev+0x98/0xf8
Reason for this crash is a gcc miscompilation in the fault handlers of
pa_memcpy() which return the fault address instead of the copied bytes.
Since this seems to be a generic problem with gcc-4.7.x (and below), it's
better to simplify the fault handlers in pa_memcpy to avoid this problem.
Which gcc PR# is that?
There is no gcc PR as pa_memcpy is not legitimate C code. There is an
implicit assumption
that certain variables will contain correct values when an exception
occurs and the code randomly
jumps to one of the exception blocks. There is no guarantee of this.
If a PR was filed, it would likely
be marked as invalid.
I would judge there's no hope in fixing this in 4.7.
Dave
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