arm64: unhandled level 3 permission fault on ltp mmap16 test

fixed-term.Oleksij.Rempel fixed-term.Oleksij.Rempel at de.bosch.com
Thu May 19 02:22:43 PDT 2016



On 19.05.2016 11:14, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 19/05/16 06:34, fixed-term.Oleksij.Rempel wrote:
>> Hallo all,
>>
>> if i run latest ltp tests on any of latest kernel version i get
>> fallowing warning:
>>
>> root at rcar1:/opt/ltp# dmesg
>> root at rcar1:/opt/ltp# ./testcases/bin/mmap16
>> mmap16      0  TINFO  :  Found free device '/dev/loop0'
>> mmap16      0  TINFO  :  Formatting /dev/loop0 with ext4 opts='-b 1024'
>> extra opts='10240'
>> mke2fs 1.43-WIP (15-Mar-2016)
>> [  889.736679] EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem with ordered data
>> mode. Opts: nodelalloc
>> [  889.843995] mmap16[2164]: unhandled level 3 permission fault (7) at
>> 0x7f8397d400, esr 0x9200004f
> 
> IIRC, this is expected. The test performs the access on purpose. It spawns
> a child which does this access and expects SIGBUS to be delivered to it.
> The
> parent makes sure that the SIGBUS is delivered to by wait()-ing for it.
> 
> See :
>                 /*
>                  * If child process was killed by SIGBUS, bug is not
> reproduced.
>                  */
>                 if (!WIFSIGNALED(status) || WTERMSIG(status) != SIGBUS) {
>                         tst_brkm(TBROK | TERRNO, cleanup,
>                                  "child process terminate unexpectedly");
>                 }
> 
>>
>> Can some one please help me to understand this? If i see it correctly,
>> some thing wrong happened by level 3 address translation. But i have no
>> idea how to solve it (if it should be solved)
> 
> On arm64 we print unhandled faults to give enough information to debug the
> problem, which is why you see those messages in dmesg.
> 
> So, you can ignore those messages as long as the faults are generated by
> mmap16 and thetest reports success.

OK, thank you!



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