arm64: unhandled level 0 translation fault

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Fri Dec 15 05:30:00 PST 2017


Hi Dave,

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 07:08:27PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 02:34:50PM +0000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
>> >> <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> >> > During userspace (Debian jessie NFS root) boot on arm64:
>> >> >
>> >> > rpcbind[1083]: unhandled level 0 translation fault (11) at 0x00000008,
>> >> > esr 0x92000004, in dash[aaaaadf77000+1a000]
>> >> > CPU: 0 PID: 1083 Comm: rpcbind Not tainted
>> >> > 4.15.0-rc3-arm64-renesas-02176-g14f9a1826e48e355 #51
>> >> > Hardware name: Renesas Salvator-X 2nd version board based on r8a7795 ES2.0+ (DT)
>> >>
>> >> This is a quad Cortex A57.
>> >>
>> >> > pstate: 80000000 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO)
>> >> > pc : 0xaaaaadf8a51c
>> >> > lr : 0xaaaaadf8ac08
>> >> > sp : 0000ffffcffeac00
>> >> > x29: 0000ffffcffeac00 x28: 0000aaaaadfa1000
>> >> > x27: 0000ffffcffebf7c x26: 0000ffffcffead20
>> >> > x25: 0000aaaacea1c5f0 x24: 0000000000000000
>> >> > x23: 0000aaaaadfa1000 x22: 0000aaaaadfa1000
>> >> > x21: 0000000000000000 x20: 0000000000000008
>> >> > x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000ffffcffeb500
>> >> > x17: 0000ffffa22babfc x16: 0000aaaaadfa1ae8
>> >> > x15: 0000ffffa2363588 x14: ffffffffffffffff
>> >> > x13: 0000000000000020 x12: 0000000000000010
>> >> > x11: 0101010101010101 x10: 0000aaaaadfa1000
>> >> > x9 : 00000000ffffff81 x8 : 0000aaaaadfa2000
>> >> > x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
>> >> > x5 : 0000aaaaadfa2338 x4 : 0000aaaaadfa2000
>> >> > x3 : 0000aaaaadfa2338 x2 : 0000000000000000
>> >> > x1 : 0000aaaaadfa28b0 x0 : 0000aaaaadfa4c30
>> >> >
>> >> > Sometimes it happens with other processes, but the main address, esr, and
>> >> > pstate values are always the same.
>> >> >
>> >> > I regularly run arm64/for-next/core (through bi-weekly renesas-drivers
>> >> > releases, so the last time was two weeks ago), but never saw the issue
>> >> > before until today, so probably v4.15-rc1 is OK.
>> >> > Unfortunately it doesn't happen during every boot, which makes it
>> >> > cumbersome to bisect.
>> >> >
>> >> > My first guess was UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0, but even after disabling that,
>> >> > and even without today's arm64/for-next/core merged in, I still managed to
>> >> > reproduce the issue, so I believe it was introduced in v4.15-rc2 or
>> >> > v4.15-rc3.
>> >> >
>> >> > Once, when the kernel message above wasn't shown, I got an error from
>> >> > userspace, which may be related:
>> >> > *** Error in `/bin/sh': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000aaaadd970988 ***
>> >>
>> >> With more boots (10 instead of 6) to declare a kernel good, I bisected this
>> >> to commit 9de52a755cfb6da5 ("arm64: fpsimd: Fix failure to restore FPSIMD
>> >> state after signals").
>> >>
>> >> Reverting that commit on top of v4.15-rc3 fixed the issue for me.
>> >
>> > Good work on the bisect -- I'll need to have a think about this...
>> >
>> > That patch fixes a genuine problem so we can't just revert it.
>> >
>> > What if you revert _just this function_ back to what it was in v4.14?
>>
>> With fpsimd_update_current_state() reverted to v4.14, and
>>
>> -               __this_cpu_write(fpsimd_last_state, st);
>> +               __this_cpu_write(fpsimd_last_state.st, st);
>>
>> to make it build, the problem seems to be fixed, too.

> Interesting if I apply that to v4.14 and then flatten the new code for CONFIG_ARM64_SVE=n, I get:
>
> Working:
>
> void fpsimd_update_current_state(struct fpsimd_state *state)
> {
>         local_bh_disable();
>
>         fpsimd_load_state(state);
>         if (test_and_clear_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE)) {
>                 struct fpsimd_state *st = &current->thread.fpsimd_state;
>
>                 __this_cpu_write(fpsimd_last_state.st, st);
>                 st->cpu = smp_processor_id();
>         }
>
>         local_bh_enable();
> }
>
> Broken:
>
> void fpsimd_update_current_state(struct fpsimd_state *state)
> {
>         struct fpsimd_last_state_struct *last;
>         struct fpsimd_state *st;
>
>         local_bh_disable();
>
>         current->thread.fpsimd_state = *state;
>         fpsimd_load_state(&current->thread.fpsimd_state);
>
>         if (test_and_clear_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE)) {
>                 last = this_cpu_ptr(&fpsimd_last_state);
>                 st = &current->thread.fpsimd_state;
>
>                 last->st = st;
>                 last->sve_in_use = test_thread_flag(TIF_SVE);
>                 st->cpu = smp_processor_id();
>         }
>
>         local_bh_enable();
> }
>
> Can you try my flattened "broken" version by itself and see if that does
> reproduce the bug?  If not, my flattening may be making bad assumptions...
>
> Assuming the "broken" version reproduces the bug, I can't yet see exactly
> where the breakage comes from.

Correct, above "Working" is working, and "Broken" is broken.

> The two important differences here seem to be
>
> 1) Staging the state via current->thread.fpsimd_state instead of loading
> directly:
>
> -       fpsimd_load_state(state);
> +       current->thread.fpsimd_state = *state;
> +       fpsimd_load_state(&current->thread.fpsimd_state);

The change above introduces the breakage.

> 2) Using this_cpu_ptr() + assignment instead of __this_cpu_write() when
> reassociating the task's fpsimd context with the cpu:
>
>  {
> +       struct fpsimd_last_state_struct *last;
> +       struct fpsimd_state *st;
>
> [...]
>
>         if (test_and_clear_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE)) {
> -               struct fpsimd_state *st = &current->thread.fpsimd_state;
> -
> -               __this_cpu_write(fpsimd_last_state.st, st);
> -               st->cpu = smp_processor_id();
> +               last = this_cpu_ptr(&fpsimd_last_state);
> +               st = &current->thread.fpsimd_state;
> +
> +               last->st = st;
> +               last->sve_in_use = test_thread_flag(TIF_SVE);
> +               st->cpu = smp_processor_id();
>         }

The change above is fine.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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