Re: io_uring failure on parisc (32-bit userspace and 64-bit kernel)

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On 2/12/23 12:35?PM, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 2/12/23 15:03, Helge Deller wrote:
>> On 2/12/23 14:35, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 2/12/23 6:28?AM, Helge Deller wrote:
>>>> On 2/12/23 14:16, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> On 2/12/23 2:47?AM, Helge Deller wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We see io-uring failures on the parisc architecture with this testcase:
>>>>>> https://github.com/axboe/liburing/blob/master/examples/io_uring-test.c
>>>>>>
>>>>>> parisc is always big-endian 32-bit userspace, with either 32- or 64-bit kernel.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On a 64-bit kernel (6.1.11):
>>>>>> deller@parisc:~$ ./io_uring-test test.file
>>>>>> ret=0, wanted 4096
>>>>>> Submitted=4, completed=1, bytes=0
>>>>>> -> failure
>>>>>>
>>>>>> strace shows:
>>>>>> io_uring_setup(4, {flags=0, sq_thread_cpu=0, sq_thread_idle=0, sq_entries=4, cq_entries=8, features=IORING_FEAT_SINGLE_MMAP|IORING_FEAT_NODROP|IORING_FEAT_SUBMIT_STABLE|IORING_FEAT_RW_CUR_POS|IORING_FEAT_CUR_PERSONALITY|IORING_FEAT_FAST_POLL|IORING_FEAT_POLL_32BITS|0x1f80, sq_off={head=0, tail=16, ring_mask=64, ring_entries=72, flags=84, dropped=80, array=224}, cq_off={head=32, tail=48, ring_mask=68, ring_entries=76, overflow=92, cqes=96, flags=0x58 /* IORING_CQ_??? */}}) = 3
>>>>>> mmap2(NULL, 240, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_POPULATE, 3, 0) = 0xf7522000
>>>>>> mmap2(NULL, 256, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_POPULATE, 3, 0x10000000) = 0xf6922000
>>>>>> openat(AT_FDCWD, "libell0-dbgsym_0.56-2_hppa.deb", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECT) = 4
>>>>>> statx(4, "", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT|AT_EMPTY_PATH, STATX_BASIC_STATS, {stx_mask=STATX_BASIC_STATS|STATX_MNT_ID, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFREG|0644, stx_size=689308, ...}) = 0
>>>>>> getrandom("\x5c\xcf\x38\x2d", 4, GRND_NONBLOCK) = 4
>>>>>> brk(NULL)                               = 0x4ae000
>>>>>> brk(0x4cf000)                           = 0x4cf000
>>>>>> io_uring_enter(3, 4, 0, 0, NULL, 8)     = 0
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Running the same testcase on a 32-bit kernel (6.1.11) works:
>>>>>> root@debian:~# ./io_uring-test test.file
>>>>>> Submitted=4, completed=4, bytes=16384
>>>>>> -> ok.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> strace:
>>>>>> io_uring_setup(4, {flags=0, sq_thread_cpu=0, sq_thread_idle=0, sq_entries=4, cq_entries=8, features=IORING_FEAT_SINGLE_MMAP|IORING_FEAT_NODROP|IORING_FEAT_SUBMIT_STABLE|IORING_FEAT_RW_CUR_POS|IORING_FEAT_CUR_PERSONALITY|IORING_FEAT_FAST_POLL|IORING_FEAT_POLL_32BITS|0x1f80, sq_off={head=0, tail=16, ring_mask=64, ring_entries=72, flags=84, dropped=80, array=224}, cq_off={head=32, tail=48, ring_mask=68, ring_entries=76, overflow=92, cqes=96, flags=0x58 /* IORING_CQ_??? */}}) = 3
>>>>>> mmap2(NULL, 240, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_POPULATE, 3, 0) = 0xf6d4c000
>>>>>> mmap2(NULL, 256, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_POPULATE, 3, 0x10000000) = 0xf694c000
>>>>>> openat(AT_FDCWD, "trace.dat", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECT) = 4
>>>>>> statx(4, "", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT|AT_EMPTY_PATH, STATX_BASIC_STATS, {stx_mask=STATX_BASIC_STATS|STATX_MNT_ID, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFREG|0644, stx_size=1855488, ...}) = 0
>>>>>> getrandom("\xb2\x3f\x0c\x65", 4, GRND_NONBLOCK) = 4
>>>>>> brk(NULL)                               = 0x15000
>>>>>> brk(0x36000)                            = 0x36000
>>>>>> io_uring_enter(3, 4, 0, 0, NULL, 8)     = 4
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm happy to test any patch if someone has an idea....
>>>>>
>>>>> No idea what this could be, to be honest. I tried your qemu vm image,
>>>>> and it does boot, but it's missing keys to be able to update apt and
>>>>> install packages... After fiddling with this for 30 min I gave up, any
>>>>> chance you can update the sid image? Given how slow this thing is
>>>>> running, it'd take me all day to do a fresh install and I have to admit
>>>>> I'm not THAT motivated about parisc to do that :)
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I will update that image, but qemu currently only supports a
>>>> 32-bit PA-RISC CPU which can only run the 32-bit kernel. So even if I
>>>> update it, you won't be able to reproduce it, as it only happens with
>>>> the 64-bit kernel. I'm sure it's some kind of missing 32-to-64bit
>>>> translation in the kernel, which triggers only big-endian machines.
>>>
>>> I built my own kernel for it, so that should be fine, correct?
>>
>> No, as qemu won't boot the 64-bit kernel.
>>
>>> We'll see soon enough, managed to disable enough checks on the
>>> debian-10 image to actually make it install packages.
>>>
>>>> Does powerpc with a 64-bit ppc64 kernel work?
>>>> I'd assume it will show the same issue.
>>>
>>> No idea... Only stuff I use and test on is x86-64/32 and arm64.
>>
>> Would be interesting if someone could test...
>>
>>>> I will try to add some printks and compare the output of 32- and
>>>> 64-bit kernels. If you have some suggestion where to add such (which?)
>>>> debug code, it would help me a lot.
>>>
>>> I'd just try:
>>>
>>> echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/io_uring
>>
>> I'll try, but will take some time...
>>
> 
> At entry of io_submit_sqes(), io_sqring_entries() returns 0, because
> ctx->rings->sq.tail is 0 (wrongly on broken 64-bit, but ok value 4 on 32-bit), and
> ctx->cached_sq_head is 0 in both cases.

cached_sq_head will get updated as sqes are consumed, but since sq.tail
is zero, there's nothing to submit as far as io_uring is concerned.

Can you dump addresses/offsets of the sq and cq heads/tails in userspace
and in the kernel? They are u32, so same size of 32 and 64-bit.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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