ARM64: kernel panics in DABT in sys_msync path

Ruigrok, Richard rruigrok at codeaurora.org
Tue Sep 26 07:23:35 PDT 2017



On 9/26/2017 4:23 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 01:54:57PM -0600, Ruigrok, Richard wrote:
>> I also found this issue with kernels from 4.11 through 4.13.  In my tests, I
>> found that it reproduces only with 4K page and Transparent Huge Pages. With 64K
>> page I was not able to reproduce. RH also reported it here: https://
>> bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491504 Linaro reported on the RPK kernel
>> (4.12) on Centriq2400 and ThunderX
>>  
>>
>> https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3191
>>
>> https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3068.
> These two aren't the same bug (that's a forward progress issue that we're
> currently working on). I don't have permission to look at the redhat one,
> but is it just an RCU stall or actually the Oops reported by Yury?
>
>> I was able to bisect down to a specific commit.
> I think we're chasing two different things here, so not sure I trust the
> bisect!
>
> Will
The RCU stall is side effect.  The issue I'm seeing has the same stack trace and same stimulus (rwtest).  Following are the details.

I agree the bisect needs to be verified.  Yury could you test commits before and at the bisect point I provided.  I did extensive test on our platform and bisect converged consistently to the same commit.

Details:

When running ARM64 kernel configured with THP enabled:
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS=y
And 4k page (CONFIG_ARM64_4K_PAGES=y)
 
Running ltp release 20170516-182-g738dbdb  rwtest:  runltp -p -f fs -s rwtest
 
An unhandled page fault occurs in the mm code, when PC hits  line at mm/page_vma_mapped.c
http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.13/source/mm/page_vma_mapped.c#L163
When an invalid pvmw pointer is passed to check_pte, in addition to the unhandled page fault, the entire system is brought down since the core on which the page fault occurs halts while holding the spinlock:    spin_lock(pvmw->ptl);
>From <http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.13/source/mm/page_vma_mapped.c#L163>
All other cores will show:  NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#<n> stuck for 22s! [doio:4152]


list *(   0xffff0000081b9210 +0x70)
 
(gdb) list *(   0xffff0000081b9210 +0x70)
0xffff0000081b9280 is in page_mkclean_one (mm/rmap.c:1028).
1023                    .address = address,
1024                    .flags = PVMW_SYNC,
1025            };
1026            int *cleaned = arg;
1027
1028            while (page_vma_mapped_walk(&pvmw)) {
1029                    int ret = 0;
1030                    address = pvmw.address;
1031                    if (pvmw.pte) {
1032                            pte_t entry;
(gdb)
 
 
Dump of assembler code for function check_pte:
   0xffff0000081b80c0 <+0>:     ldr     w1, [x0,#48]
list *(0xffff0000081b80c0 + 0x68)
 
(gdb) list *(0xffff0000081b80c0 + 0x68)
0xffff0000081b8128 is in check_pte (mm/page_vma_mapped.c:63).
58                              return false;
59      #else
60                      WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
61      #endif
62              } else {
63                      if (!pte_present(*pvmw->pte))
64                              return false;
65
66                      /* THP can be referenced by any subpage */
67                      if (pte_page(*pvmw->pte) - pvmw->page >=
 
 
 
[  544.799399] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff800000000c10
[  544.806371] pgd = ffff8007d4d7b000
[  544.809753] [ffff800000000c10] *pgd=0000000000000000
[  544.814695] Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[  544.820248] Modules linked in:
[  544.823287] CPU: 2 PID: 4153 Comm: doio Not tainted 4.10.0-dev-0907-t64-09623-g726c7c0 #93
[  544.831526] Hardware name: Qualcomm Qualcomm Centriq(TM) 2400 Development Platform/ABW|SYS|CVR,1DPC|V3           , BIOS XBL.DF.2.0.R1-00542 QDF2400_REL CR
[  544.845328] task: ffff8007d8428d00 task.stack: ffff8007db4ac000
[  544.851248] PC is at check_pte+0x68/0x150
[  544.855231] LR is at page_vma_mapped_walk+0x260/0x3d8
[  544.860259] pc : [<ffff0000081b8128>] lr : [<ffff0000081b8470>] pstate: 00400145
[  544.867637] sp : ffff8007db4af8a0
[  544.870942] x29: ffff8007db4af8a0 x28: 0000000000000714
[  544.876231] x27: 0088000000000000 x26: ff77ffffffffffff
[  544.881526] x25: 0400000000000001 x24: 0040000000000041
[  544.886821] x23: ffff8007d77f7000 x22: ffff8007db4afa34
[  544.892116] x21: ffff000009276000 x20: ffff7e001f292600
[  544.897411] x19: ffff8007db4af958 x18: 0000000000000a03
[  544.902706] x17: 0000ffff945fb1a0 x16: ffff0000081b7ee8
[  544.908001] x15: ffff8007bd6a6b48 x14: 0000000000000040
[  544.913297] x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000002
[  544.918592] x11: 0000000000000230 x10: 0000000000001200
[  544.923887] x9 : ffff7e001f2925c0 x8 : 0000000000001200
[  544.929182] x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000c35
[  544.934477] x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : 0000000000000182
[  544.939772] x3 : 0400000000000001 x2 : ffff800000000c10
[  544.945067] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff8007db4af958
 
 
 
 
 
[  545.425022] Call trace:                                                                                                                                                                                                        [10/44993]
[  545.427453] Exception stack(0xffff8007db4af6d0 to 0xffff8007db4af800)
[  545.433870] f6c0:                                   ffff8007db4af958 0001000000000000
[  545.441683] f6e0: ffff8007db4af8a0 ffff0000081b8128 ffff8007db4af710 ffff0000081dc514
[  545.449495] f700: 0000000000000000 ffff0000091ef000 ffff8007db4af770 ffff0000087f0444
[  545.457308] f720: ffff8007d9f1e148 ffff0000095ad000 ffff8007d80eb000 0000000001011200
[  545.465120] f740: ffff8007db4af7a0 ffff00000817cf40 0000000000000000 ffff8007d8e7f700
[  545.472933] f760: 0000000001091220 ffff0000080fd998 ffff8007db4af958 0000000000000000
[  545.480745] f780: ffff800000000c10 0400000000000001 0000000000000182 0000000000000001
[  545.488558] f7a0: 0000000000000c35 0000000000000001 0000000000001200 ffff7e001f2925c0
[  545.496370] f7c0: 0000000000001200 0000000000000230 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
[  545.504183] f7e0: 0000000000000040 ffff8007bd6a6b48 ffff0000081b7ee8 0000ffff945fb1a0
[  545.512008] [<ffff0000081b8128>] check_pte+0x68/0x150
[  545.517043] [<ffff0000081b9280>] page_mkclean_one+0x70/0x1a0
[  545.522672] [<ffff0000081b94dc>] rmap_walk_file+0xe4/0x290
[  545.528141] [<ffff0000081bb788>] rmap_walk+0x48/0x70
[  545.533089] [<ffff0000081bb9a8>] page_mkclean+0x88/0xa0
[  545.538313] [<ffff0000081866dc>] clear_page_dirty_for_io+0x9c/0x200
[  545.544564] [<ffff000008280a20>] mpage_submit_page+0x48/0x98
[  545.550190] [<ffff000008280bb8>] mpage_process_page_bufs+0x148/0x158
[  545.556526] [<ffff000008280d0c>] mpage_prepare_extent_to_map+0x144/0x270
[  545.563217] [<ffff000008284f20>] ext4_writepages+0x3b0/0xa00
[  545.568853] [<ffff000008188ccc>] do_writepages+0x24/0x48
[  545.574161] [<ffff00000817b454>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x9c/0xe8
[  545.580571] [<ffff00000817b5b4>] filemap_write_and_wait_range+0x2c/0x88
[  545.587175] [<ffff00000827c540>] ext4_sync_file+0x58/0x300
[  545.592652] [<ffff00000822b46c>] vfs_fsync_range+0x44/0xc0
[  545.598107] [<ffff0000081b806c>] SyS_msync+0x184/0x1d8
[  545.603242] [<ffff000008082f30>] el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28
[  545.608530] Code: f9401002 d2800023 f2e08003 52800001 (f9400042)
[  545.614630] ---[ end trace 065a200dac27fe87 ]---
[  545.619213] note: doio[4153] exited with preempt_count 1
[  569.734898] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#27 stuck for 22s! [doio:4152]
[  569.741155] Modules linked in:
[  569.744193]
[  569.745671] CPU: 27 PID: 4152 Comm: doio Tainted: G      D         4.10.0-dev-0907-t64-09623-g726c7c0 #93
[  569.755218] Hardware name: Qualcomm Qualcomm Centriq(TM) 2400 Development Platform/ABW|SYS|CVR,1DPC|V3           , BIOS XBL.DF.2.0.R1-00542 QDF2400_REL CR
[  569.769020] task: ffff8007d842ce00 task.stack: ffff8007d8280000
[  569.774938] PC is at _raw_spin_lock+0x34/0x48
[  569.779279] LR is at alloc_set_pte+0x438/0x560

Thanks,
Richard.
>> First bad commit is:
>> commit f27176cfc363d395eea8dc5c4a26e5d6d7d65eaf
>> Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
>> Date: Fri Feb 24 14:57:57 2017 -0800
>>
>> mm: convert page_mkclean_one() to use page_vma_mapped_walk()
>>
>> For consistency, it worth converting all page_check_address() to
>> page_vma_mapped_walk(), so we could drop the former.
>>
>> PMD handling here is future-proofing, we don't have users yet. ext4
>> with huge pages will be the first.
>>
>> I did not use virtualization, simply booting kernel and running the LTP
>> rwtest:   ./runltp -p -f fs -s rwtest
>> To validate bisecting (good points), I ran 30 iterations.  Usually it
>> reproduces in 5-10 iterations.
>>
>> If you have any suggestions for instrumentation I can run tests, we can work
>> with 4.13 or on 4.11 at the above bisect point.
>> I have not tried the 4.14-rc's yet.

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