arm64 crashkernel fails to boot on acpi-only machines due to ACPI regions being no longer mapped as NOMAP
AKASHI Takahiro
takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Sun Dec 17 21:54:00 PST 2017
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:16:57PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> kexec at fedoraproject... is for Fedora kexec scripts discussion, changed it
> to kexec at lists.infradead.org
>
> Also add linux-acpi list
Thank you.
> On 12/18/17 at 02:31am, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Ard Biesheuvel
> > <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
> > > On 15 December 2017 at 09:59, AKASHI Takahiro
> > > <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org> wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:17:22PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > >>> On 13 December 2017 at 12:16, AKASHI Takahiro
> > >>> <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org> wrote:
> > >>> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:49:27AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > >>> >> On 13 December 2017 at 10:26, AKASHI Takahiro
> > >>> >> <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org> wrote:
> > >>> >> > Bhupesh, Ard,
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 03:21:59AM +0530, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
> > >>> >> >> Hi Ard, Akashi
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> > (snip)
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >> >> Looking deeper into the issue, since the arm64 kexec-tools uses the
> > >>> >> >> 'linux,usable-memory-range' dt property to allow crash dump kernel to
> > >>> >> >> identify its own usable memory and exclude, at its boot time, any
> > >>> >> >> other memory areas that are part of the panicked kernel's memory.
> > >>> >> >> (see https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
> > >>> >> >> , for details)
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >> > Right.
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >> >> 1). Now when 'kexec -p' is executed, this node is patched up only
> > >>> >> >> with the crashkernel memory range:
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> /* add linux,usable-memory-range */
> > >>> >> >> nodeoffset = fdt_path_offset(new_buf, "/chosen");
> > >>> >> >> result = fdt_setprop_range(new_buf, nodeoffset,
> > >>> >> >> PROP_USABLE_MEM_RANGE, &crash_reserved_mem,
> > >>> >> >> address_cells, size_cells);
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> (see https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/tree/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c#n465
> > >>> >> >> , for details)
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> 2). This excludes the ACPI reclaim regions irrespective of whether
> > >>> >> >> they are marked as System RAM or as RESERVED. As,
> > >>> >> >> 'linux,usable-memory-range' dt node is patched up only with
> > >>> >> >> 'crash_reserved_mem' and not 'system_memory_ranges'
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> 3). As a result when the crashkernel boots up it doesn't find this
> > >>> >> >> ACPI memory and crashes while trying to access the same:
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> # kexec -p /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` --initrd=/boot/initramfs-`uname
> > >>> >> >> -r`.img --reuse-cmdline -d
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> [snip..]
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> Reserved memory range
> > >>> >> >> 000000000e800000-000000002e7fffff (0)
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> Coredump memory ranges
> > >>> >> >> 0000000000000000-000000000e7fffff (0)
> > >>> >> >> 000000002e800000-000000003961ffff (0)
> > >>> >> >> 0000000039d40000-000000003ed2ffff (0)
> > >>> >> >> 000000003ed60000-000000003fbfffff (0)
> > >>> >> >> 0000001040000000-0000001ffbffffff (0)
> > >>> >> >> 0000002000000000-0000002ffbffffff (0)
> > >>> >> >> 0000009000000000-0000009ffbffffff (0)
> > >>> >> >> 000000a000000000-000000affbffffff (0)
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> 4). So if we revert Ard's patch or just comment the fixing up of the
> > >>> >> >> memory cap'ing passed to the crash kernel inside
> > >>> >> >> 'arch/arm64/mm/init.c' (see below):
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> static void __init fdt_enforce_memory_region(void)
> > >>> >> >> {
> > >>> >> >> struct memblock_region reg = {
> > >>> >> >> .size = 0,
> > >>> >> >> };
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_usablemem, ®);
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> if (reg.size)
> > >>> >> >> //memblock_cap_memory_range(reg.base, reg.size); /*
> > >>> >> >> comment this out */
> > >>> >> >> }
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >> > Please just don't do that. It can cause a fatal damage on
> > >>> >> > memory contents of the *crashed* kernel.
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >> >> 5). Both the above temporary solutions fix the problem.
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> 6). However exposing all System RAM regions to the crashkernel is not
> > >>> >> >> advisable and may cause the crashkernel or some crashkernel drivers to
> > >>> >> >> fail.
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> 6a). I am trying an approach now, where the ACPI reclaim regions are
> > >>> >> >> added to '/proc/iomem' separately as ACPI reclaim regions by the
> > >>> >> >> kernel code and on the other hand the user-space 'kexec-tools' will
> > >>> >> >> pick up the ACPI reclaim regions from '/proc/iomem' and add it to the
> > >>> >> >> dt node 'linux,usable-memory-range'
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >> > I still don't understand why we need to carry over the information
> > >>> >> > about "ACPI Reclaim memory" to crash dump kernel. In my understandings,
> > >>> >> > such regions are free to be reused by the kernel after some point of
> > >>> >> > initialization. Why does crash dump kernel need to know about them?
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >> Not really. According to the UEFI spec, they can be reclaimed after
> > >>> >> the OS has initialized, i.e., when it has consumed the ACPI tables and
> > >>> >> no longer needs them. Of course, in order to be able to boot a kexec
> > >>> >> kernel, those regions needs to be preserved, which is why they are
> > >>> >> memblock_reserve()'d now.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > For my better understandings, who is actually accessing such regions
> > >>> > during boot time, uefi itself or efistub?
> > >>> >
> > >>>
> > >>> No, only the kernel. This is where the ACPI tables are stored. For
> > >>> instance, on QEMU we have
> > >>>
> > >>> ACPI: RSDP 0x0000000078980000 000024 (v02 BOCHS )
> > >>> ACPI: XSDT 0x0000000078970000 000054 (v01 BOCHS BXPCFACP 00000001
> > >>> 01000013)
> > >>> ACPI: FACP 0x0000000078930000 00010C (v05 BOCHS BXPCFACP 00000001
> > >>> BXPC 00000001)
> > >>> ACPI: DSDT 0x0000000078940000 0011DA (v02 BOCHS BXPCDSDT 00000001
> > >>> BXPC 00000001)
> > >>> ACPI: APIC 0x0000000078920000 000140 (v03 BOCHS BXPCAPIC 00000001
> > >>> BXPC 00000001)
> > >>> ACPI: GTDT 0x0000000078910000 000060 (v02 BOCHS BXPCGTDT 00000001
> > >>> BXPC 00000001)
> > >>> ACPI: MCFG 0x0000000078900000 00003C (v01 BOCHS BXPCMCFG 00000001
> > >>> BXPC 00000001)
> > >>> ACPI: SPCR 0x00000000788F0000 000050 (v02 BOCHS BXPCSPCR 00000001
> > >>> BXPC 00000001)
> > >>> ACPI: IORT 0x00000000788E0000 00007C (v00 BOCHS BXPCIORT 00000001
> > >>> BXPC 00000001)
> > >>>
> > >>> covered by
> > >>>
> > >>> efi: 0x0000788e0000-0x00007894ffff [ACPI Reclaim Memory ...]
> > >>> ...
> > >>> efi: 0x000078970000-0x00007898ffff [ACPI Reclaim Memory ...]
> > >>
> > >> OK. I mistakenly understood those regions could be freed after exiting
> > >> UEFI boot services.
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> >> So it seems that kexec does not honour the memblock_reserve() table
> > >>> >> when booting the next kernel.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > not really.
> > >>> >
> > >>> >> > (In other words, can or should we skip some part of ACPI-related init code
> > >>> >> > on crash dump kernel?)
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >> I don't think so. And the change to the handling of ACPI reclaim
> > >>> >> regions only revealed the bug, not created it (given that other
> > >>> >> memblock_reserve regions may be affected as well)
> > >>> >
> > >>> > As whether we should honor such reserved regions over kexec'ing
> > >>> > depends on each one's specific nature, we will have to take care one-by-one.
> > >>> > As a matter of fact, no information about "reserved" memblocks is
> > >>> > exposed to user space (via proc/iomem).
> > >>> >
> > >>>
> > >>> That is why I suggested (somewhere in this thread?) to not expose them
> > >>> as 'System RAM'. Do you think that could solve this?
> > >>
> > >> Memblock-reserv'ing them is necessary to prevent their corruption and
> > >> marking them under another name in /proc/iomem would also be good in order
> > >> not to allocate them as part of crash kernel's memory.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I agree. However, this may not be entirely trivial, since iterating
> > > over the memblock_reserved table and creating iomem entries may result
> > > in collisions.
> >
> > I found a method (using the patch I shared earlier in this thread) to mark these
> > entries as 'ACPI reclaim memory' ranges rather than System RAM or
> > reserved regions.
> >
> > >> But I'm not still convinced that we should export them in useable-
> > >> memory-range to crash dump kernel. They will be accessed through
> > >> acpi_os_map_memory() and so won't be required to be part of system ram
> > >> (or memblocks), I guess.
> > >
> > > Agreed. They will be covered by the linear mapping in the boot kernel,
> > > and be mapped explicitly via ioremap_cache() in the kexec kernel,
> > > which is exactly what we want in this case.
> >
> > Now this is what is confusing me. I don't see the above happening.
> >
> > I see that the primary kernel boots up and adds the ACPI regions via:
> > acpi_os_ioremap
> > -> ioremap_cache
> >
> > But during the crashkernel boot, ''acpi_os_ioremap' calls
> > 'ioremap' for the ACPI Reclaim Memory regions and not the _cache
> > variant.
It is natural if that region is out of memblocks.
> > And it fails while accessing the ACPI tables:
> >
> > [ 0.039205] ACPI: Core revision 20170728
> > pud=000000002e7d0003, *pmd=000000002e7c0003, *pte=00e8000039710707
> > [ 0.095098] Internal error: Oops: 96000021 [#1] SMP
this (ESR = 0x96000021) means that Data Abort and Alignment fault happened.
As ioremap() makes the mapping as "Device memory", unaligned memory
access won't be allowed.
> > [ 0.100022] Modules linked in:
> > [ 0.103102] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.14.0-rc6 #1
> > [ 0.109432] task: ffff000008d05180 task.stack: ffff000008cc0000
> > [ 0.115414] PC is at acpi_ns_lookup+0x25c/0x3c0
> > [ 0.119987] LR is at acpi_ds_load1_begin_op+0xa4/0x294
> > [ 0.125175] pc : [<ffff0000084a6764>] lr : [<ffff00000849b4f8>]
> > pstate: 60000045
> > [ 0.132647] sp : ffff000008ccfb40
> > [ 0.135989] x29: ffff000008ccfb40 x28: ffff000008a9f2a4
> > [ 0.141354] x27: ffff0000088be820 x26: 0000000000000000
> > [ 0.146718] x25: 000000000000001b x24: 0000000000000001
> > [ 0.152083] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: ffff000009710027
> > [ 0.157447] x21: ffff000008ccfc50 x20: 0000000000000001
> > [ 0.162812] x19: 000000000000001b x18: 0000000000000005
> > [ 0.168176] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
> > [ 0.173541] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 000000000000038e
> > [ 0.178905] x13: ffffffff00000000 x12: ffffffffffffffff
> > [ 0.184270] x11: 0000000000000006 x10: 00000000ffffff76
> > [ 0.189634] x9 : 000000000000005f x8 : ffff8000126d0140
> > [ 0.194998] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff000008ccfc50
> > [ 0.200362] x5 : ffff80000fe62c00 x4 : 0000000000000001
> > [ 0.205727] x3 : ffff000008ccfbe0 x2 : ffff0000095e3980
> > [ 0.211091] x1 : ffff000009710027 x0 : 0000000000000000
> > [ 0.216456] Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, stack limit = 0xffff000008cc0000)
> > [ 0.223224] Call trace:
> > [ 0.225688] Exception stack(0xffff000008ccfa00 to 0xffff000008ccfb40)
> > [ 0.232194] fa00: 0000000000000000 ffff000009710027
> > ffff0000095e3980 ffff000008ccfbe0
> > [ 0.240106] fa20: 0000000000000001 ffff80000fe62c00
> > ffff000008ccfc50 0000000000000000
> > [ 0.248018] fa40: ffff8000126d0140 000000000000005f
> > 00000000ffffff76 0000000000000006
> > [ 0.255931] fa60: ffffffffffffffff ffffffff00000000
> > 000000000000038e 0000000000000000
> > [ 0.263843] fa80: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> > 0000000000000005 000000000000001b
> > [ 0.271754] faa0: 0000000000000001 ffff000008ccfc50
> > ffff000009710027 0000000000000001
> > [ 0.279667] fac0: 0000000000000001 000000000000001b
> > 0000000000000000 ffff0000088be820
> > [ 0.287579] fae0: ffff000008a9f2a4 ffff000008ccfb40
> > ffff00000849b4f8 ffff000008ccfb40
> > [ 0.295491] fb00: ffff0000084a6764 0000000060000045
> > ffff000008ccfb40 ffff000008260a18
> > [ 0.303403] fb20: ffffffffffffffff ffff0000087f3fb0
> > ffff000008ccfb40 ffff0000084a6764
> > [ 0.311316] [<ffff0000084a6764>] acpi_ns_lookup+0x25c/0x3c0
> > [ 0.316943] [<ffff00000849b4f8>] acpi_ds_load1_begin_op+0xa4/0x294
> > [ 0.323186] [<ffff0000084ad4ac>] acpi_ps_build_named_op+0xc4/0x198
> > [ 0.329428] [<ffff0000084ad6cc>] acpi_ps_create_op+0x14c/0x270
> > [ 0.335319] [<ffff0000084acfa8>] acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x188/0x5c8
> > [ 0.341298] [<ffff0000084ae048>] acpi_ps_parse_aml+0xb0/0x2b8
> > [ 0.347101] [<ffff0000084a8e10>] acpi_ns_one_complete_parse+0x144/0x184
> > [ 0.353783] [<ffff0000084a8e98>] acpi_ns_parse_table+0x48/0x68
> > [ 0.359675] [<ffff0000084a82cc>] acpi_ns_load_table+0x4c/0xdc
> > [ 0.365479] [<ffff0000084b32f8>] acpi_tb_load_namespace+0xe4/0x264
> > [ 0.371723] [<ffff000008baf9b4>] acpi_load_tables+0x48/0xc0
> > [ 0.377350] [<ffff000008badc20>] acpi_early_init+0x9c/0xd0
> > [ 0.382891] [<ffff000008b70d50>] start_kernel+0x3b4/0x43c
> > [ 0.388343] Code: b9008fb9 2a000318 36380054 32190318 (b94002c0)
> > [ 0.394500] ---[ end trace c46ed37f9651c58e ]---
> > [ 0.399160] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
> > [ 0.404437] Rebooting in 10 seconds.
> >
> > So, I think the linear mapping done by the primary kernel does not
> > make these accessible in the crash kernel directly.
> >
> > Any pointers?
>
> Can you get the code line number for acpi_ns_lookup+0x25c?
So should we always avoid ioremap() in acpi_os_ioremap() entirely, or
modify acpi_ns_lookup() (or any acpi functions') to prevent unaligned
accesses?
(I didn't find out how unaligned accesses could happen there.)
Thanks,
-Takahiro AKASHI
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bhupesh
> >
> > >> Just FYI, on x86, ACPI tables seems to be exposed to crash dump kernel
> > >> via a kernel command line parameter, "memmap=".
> > >>
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