[PATCH 1/2] arm64: mm: print out correct page table entries

Kristina Martsenko kristina.martsenko at arm.com
Wed May 31 12:37:54 PDT 2017


Hi Will,

On 22/05/17 13:18, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:45:53PM +0100, Kristina Martsenko wrote:
>> When we take a fault that can't be handled, we print out the page table
>> entries associated with the faulting address. In some cases we currently
>> print out the wrong entries. For a faulting TTBR1 address, we sometimes
>> print out TTBR0 table entries instead, and for a faulting TTBR0 address
>> we sometimes print out TTBR1 table entries. Fix this by choosing the
>> tables based on the faulting address.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko at arm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/system_misc.h |  2 +-
>>  arch/arm64/mm/fault.c                | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/system_misc.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/system_misc.h
>> index bc812435bc76..d0beefeb6d25 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/system_misc.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/system_misc.h
>> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ void hook_debug_fault_code(int nr, int (*fn)(unsigned long, unsigned int,
>>  			   int sig, int code, const char *name);
>>  
>>  struct mm_struct;
>> -extern void show_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr);
>> +extern void show_pte(unsigned long addr);
>>  extern void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *);
>>  
>>  extern void (*arm_pm_restart)(enum reboot_mode reboot_mode, const char *cmd);
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
>> index 37b95dff0b07..0c32f34fb4af 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
>> @@ -80,14 +80,25 @@ static inline int notify_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int esr)
>>  #endif
>>  
>>  /*
>> - * Dump out the page tables associated with 'addr' in mm 'mm'.
>> + * Dump out the page tables associated with 'addr' in the currently active mm.
>>   */
>> -void show_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
>> +void show_pte(unsigned long addr)
>>  {
>> +	unsigned long ttbr_mask = ~0UL << VA_BITS;
>> +	struct mm_struct *mm;
>>  	pgd_t *pgd;
>>  
>> -	if (!mm)
>> +	if (!(addr & ttbr_mask)) {
>> +		/* TTBR0 */
>> +		mm = current->active_mm;
>> +	} else if ((addr & ttbr_mask) == ttbr_mask) {
>> +		/* TTBR1 */
>>  		mm = &init_mm;
> 
> I wonder if this would be better structured as:
> 
> 	if (addr < TASK_SIZE)
> 		/* TTBR0 */
> 	else if (addr >= VA_START)
> 		/* TTBR1 */
> 	else
> 		/* no man's land */
> 
> what do you think?

I agree this is better, I'll change it in v2.

>> @@ -196,8 +207,8 @@ static inline bool is_permission_fault(unsigned int esr, struct pt_regs *regs,
>>  /*
>>   * The kernel tried to access some page that wasn't present.
>>   */
>> -static void __do_kernel_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>> -			      unsigned int esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
>> +static void __do_kernel_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr,
>> +			      struct pt_regs *regs)
>>  {
>>  	const char *msg;
>>  
>> @@ -227,7 +238,7 @@ static void __do_kernel_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>>  	pr_alert("Unable to handle kernel %s at virtual address %08lx\n", msg,
>>  		 addr);
>>  
>> -	show_pte(mm, addr);
>> +	show_pte(addr);
> 
> Now that you're not passing the mm, __do_kernel_fault doesn't need it
> for anything so there's further cleanup you can do here.

This patch already removes the mm from __do_kernel_fault.

>>  	die("Oops", regs, esr);
>>  	bust_spinlocks(0);
>>  	do_exit(SIGKILL);
>> @@ -249,7 +260,7 @@ static void __do_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
>>  		pr_info("%s[%d]: unhandled %s (%d) at 0x%08lx, esr 0x%03x\n",
>>  			tsk->comm, task_pid_nr(tsk), inf->name, sig,
>>  			addr, esr);
>> -		show_pte(tsk->mm, addr);
>> +		show_pte(addr);
>>  		show_regs(regs);
>>  	}
>>  
>> @@ -265,7 +276,6 @@ static void __do_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
>>  static void do_bad_area(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
>>  {
>>  	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
>> -	struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->active_mm;
>>  	const struct fault_info *inf;
>>  
>>  	/*
>> @@ -276,7 +286,7 @@ static void do_bad_area(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr, struct pt_regs *re
>>  		inf = esr_to_fault_info(esr);
>>  		__do_user_fault(tsk, addr, esr, inf->sig, inf->code, regs);
>>  	} else
>> -		__do_kernel_fault(mm, addr, esr, regs);
>> +		__do_kernel_fault(addr, esr, regs);
> 
> Similar thing here: I don't think the mm local variable is used anymore.
> Does GCC not warn about this?

Same here - this patch already removes the mm variable.

Thanks for the review,
Kristina




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