kexec reboot fails with extra wbinvd introduced for AME SME
Tom Lendacky
thomas.lendacky at amd.com
Wed Jan 17 07:06:26 PST 2018
On 1/17/2018 1:22 AM, Dave Young wrote:
> [Modify the subject since this is a new problem, original io vector
> issue has been fixed with one commit from Thomas]
>
> Add more cc according to below old discussion:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/27/574
>
> Tom, I'm not sure why you finally did not dynamically run wbinvd?
That discussion was aimed at the wbinvd that was being performed
in arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S, which is dynamically
run based on a flag.
> On 01/04/18 at 11:15am, Dave Young wrote:
>> On 12/14/17 at 05:24pm, Dave Young wrote:
>>> On 12/13/17 at 11:57pm, Yu Chen wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:52:56AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Kexec reboot and kdump has broken on my laptop for long time with
>>>>> 4.15.0-rc1+ kernels. With the patch below an early panic been fixed:
>>>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10084289/
>>>>>
>>>>> But still can not get a successful reboot, it looked like graphic
>>>>> issue, but after bisecting the kernel, I got below:
>>>>>
>>>>> [dyoung at dhcp-*-* linux]$ git bisect good
>>>>> There are only 'skip'ped commits left to test.
>>>>> The first bad commit could be any of:
>>>>> 2db1f959d9dc16035f2eb44ed5fdb2789b754d6a
>>>>> 4900be83602b6be07366d3e69f756c1959f4169a
>>>>> We cannot bisect more!
>>>>>
>>>>> These two commits can no be reverted because of code conflicts, thus
>>>>> I reverted the whole series from Thomas (below commits), with those
>>>>> x86/vector changes reverted, kexec reboot works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you help to take a look, any thoughts? I can do the test
>>>>> if you have some debug patch to try.
>>>> Is it possible that the "second" kernel runs on non-zero CPU? If yes,
>>>> what if some irqs are only delivered to cpu0? (use cpumask_of(0)
>>>> directly)
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply.
>>>
>>> For kdump, yes, for kexec, I'm not sure.
>>>
>>> Here is some kexec kernel boot log:
>>> http://people.redhat.com/~ruyang/misc/kexec-regression.txt
>>>
>>> Copy the lockup call trace here:
>>> [ 23.779285] NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 0
>>> [ 23.779285] Modules linked in: arc4 rtsx_pci_sdmmc i915 iwlmvm kvm_intel mac8
>>> 0211 kvm irqbypass btusb btrtl btbcm intel_gtt btintel drm_kms_helper snd_hda_in
>>> tel syscopyarea bluetooth iwlwifi snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_hda_core sysfillre
>>> ct snd_seq sysimgblt input_leds fb_sys_fops e1000e ecdh_generic cfg80211 snd_seq
>>> _device drm snd_pcm serio_raw ptp pcspkr thinkpad_acpi i2c_i801 snd_timer rtsx_p
>>> ci pps_core snd soundcore rfkill video
>>> [ 23.779307] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.15.0-rc3+ #378
>>> [ 23.779308] Hardware name: LENOVO 20ARS1BJ02/20ARS1BJ02, BIOS GJET92WW (2.42
>>> ) 03/03/2017
>>> [ 23.779312] RIP: 0010:poll_idle+0x2f/0x5f
>>> [ 23.779313] RSP: 0018:ffffffff81c03e80 EFLAGS: 00000246
>>> [ 23.779314] RAX: ffffffff81c0f4c0 RBX: ffffffff81c6db80 RCX: 0000000000000000
>>> [ 23.779315] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff81c6db80 RDI: ffff88021f2201e8
>>> [ 23.779316] RBP: ffff88021f2201e8 R08: 000000349a65b7dd R09: ffff88021f216db4
>>> [ 23.779317] R10: ffffffff81c03e68 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
>>> [ 23.779318] R13: ffffffff81c6db98 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000578a065b1
>>> [ 23.779319] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88021f200000(0000) knlGS:00000
>>> 00000000000
>>> [ 23.779320] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>>> [ 23.779321] CR2: 00007ffed1d0ee60 CR3: 000000021ec0a006 CR4: 00000000001606b0
>>> [ 23.779322] Call Trace:
>>> [ 23.779328] cpuidle_enter_state+0x6a/0x2c0
>>> [ 23.779333] do_idle+0x17b/0x1d0
>>> [ 23.779335] cpu_startup_entry+0x6f/0x80
>>> [ 23.779338] start_kernel+0x431/0x451
>>> [ 23.779342] secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xb0
>>> [ 23.779344] Code: 00 fb 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25 40 c4 00 00 f0 80 48
>>> 02 20 48 8b 08 83 e1 08 74 0d eb 12 f3 90 65 48 8b 04 25 40 c4 00 00 <48> 8b 00
>>> a8 08 74 ee 65 48 8b 04 25 40 c4 00 00 f0 80 60 02 df
>>>
>>
>> Followup this issue, seems another commit from Thomas partially fixed
>> this, kexec/kdump boot up successfully for me, but kexec after kexec
>> (2nd kexec reboot cycle) failed, kernel hung early
>
> The above kexec reboot hang is another problem, so Thomas has fully
> fixed previous report, thanks!
>
> For the kexec reboot hang, if I remove the wbinvd in stop_this_cpu()
> then kexec works fine. like this:
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> index 832a6acd730f..6d7499730b27 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> @@ -380,20 +380,8 @@ void stop_this_cpu(void *dummy)
> disable_local_APIC();
> mcheck_cpu_clear(this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_info));
>
> - for (;;) {
> - /*
> - * Use wbinvd followed by hlt to stop the processor. This
> - * provides support for kexec on a processor that supports
> - * SME. With kexec, going from SME inactive to SME active
> - * requires clearing cache entries so that addresses without
> - * the encryption bit set don't corrupt the same physical
> - * address that has the encryption bit set when caches are
> - * flushed. To achieve this a wbinvd is performed followed by
> - * a hlt. Even if the processor is not in the kexec/SME
> - * scenario this only adds a wbinvd to a halting processor.
> - */
> - asm volatile("wbinvd; hlt" : : : "memory");
> - }
> + for (;;)
> + halt();
> }
>
> /*
>
> But I have no idea why though, seeking for help and thoughts..
Yeah, I don't know why that works either.
Thanks,
Tom
>
>>
>> commit bc976233a872c0f20f018fb1e89264a541584e25
>> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
>> Date: Fri Dec 29 10:47:22 2017 +0100
>>
>> genirq/msi, x86/vector: Prevent reservation mode for non maskable MSI
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dave
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
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