RISC-V reserved memory problems
Alexandre Ghiti
alex at ghiti.fr
Thu Mar 9 02:30:07 PST 2023
Hi Conor,
On 8/16/22 22:41, Conor.Dooley at microchip.com wrote:
> Hey all,
> We've run into a bit of a problem with reserved memory on PolarFire, or
> more accurately a pair of problems that seem to have opposite fixes.
>
> The first of these problems is triggered when trying to implement a
> remoteproc driver. To get the reserved memory buffer, remoteproc
> does an of_reserved_mem_lookup(), something like:
>
> np = of_parse_phandle(pdev->of_node, "memory-region", 0);
> if (!np)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> rmem = of_reserved_mem_lookup(np);
> if (!rmem)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> of_reserved_mem_lookup() then uses reserved_mem[i].name to try and find
> a match - but this was triggering kernel panics for us. We did some
> debugging and found that the name string's pointer was pointing to an
> address in the 0x4000_0000 range. The minimum reproduction for this
0x4000_0000 corresponds to DTB_EARLY_BASE_VA: this is the address that
is used to map the dtb before we can access it using the linear mapping.
> crash is attached - it hacks in some print_reserved_mem()s into
> setup_vm_final() around a tlb flush so you can see the before/after.
> (You'll need a reserved memory node in your dts to replicate)
>
> The output is like so, with the same crash as in the remoteproc driver:
>
> [ 0.000000] Linux version 6.0.0-rc1-00001-g0d9d6953d834 (conor at wendy) (riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (g5964b5cd727) 11.1.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.37) #1 SMP Tue Aug 16 13:42:09 IST 2022
> [ 0.000000] OF: fdt: Ignoring memory range 0x80000000 - 0x80200000
> [ 0.000000] Machine model: Microchip PolarFire-SoC Icicle Kit
> [ 0.000000] earlycon: ns16550a0 at MMIO32 0x0000000020100000 (options '115200n8')
> [ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [ns16550a0] enabled
> [ 0.000000] printk: debug: skip boot console de-registration.
> [ 0.000000] efi: UEFI not found.
> [ 0.000000] before flush
> [ 0.000000] OF: reserved mem: debug name is fabricbuf at ae000000
> [ 0.000000] after flush
> [ 0.000000] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000401c31ac
You take the trap here because the mapping for the dtb does not exist in
swapper_pg_dir, but you don't need this mapping anymore as you can
access the device tree through the linear mapping now.
I would say that: you build your kernel with CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB and then
you don't call early_init_dt_verify which resets initial_boot_params to
the linear mapping address (it was initially set to 0x4000_0000 in
parse_dtb). If that's the case, does the following fix your issue?
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
index 376d2827e736..2b09f0bd8432 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
efi_init();
paging_init();
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB)
+ initial_boot_params = __va(XIP_FIXUP(dtb_early_pa));
unflatten_and_copy_device_tree();
#else
if (early_init_dt_verify(__va(XIP_FIXUP(dtb_early_pa))))
> [ 0.000000] Oops [#1]
> [ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
> [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.0.0-rc1-00001-g0d9d6953d834 #1
> [ 0.000000] Hardware name: Microchip PolarFire-SoC Icicle Kit (DT)
> [ 0.000000] epc : string+0x4a/0xea
> [ 0.000000] ra : vsnprintf+0x1e4/0x336
> [ 0.000000] epc : ffffffff80335ea0 ra : ffffffff80338936 sp : ffffffff81203be0
> [ 0.000000] gp : ffffffff812e0a98 tp : ffffffff8120de40 t0 : 0000000000000000
> [ 0.000000] t1 : ffffffff81203e28 t2 : 7265736572203a46 s0 : ffffffff81203c20
> [ 0.000000] s1 : ffffffff81203e28 a0 : ffffffff81203d22 a1 : 0000000000000000
> [ 0.000000] a2 : ffffffff81203d08 a3 : 0000000081203d21 a4 : ffffffffffffffff
> [ 0.000000] a5 : 00000000401c31ac a6 : ffff0a00ffffff04 a7 : ffffffffffffffff
> [ 0.000000] s2 : ffffffff81203d08 s3 : ffffffff81203d00 s4 : 0000000000000008
> [ 0.000000] s5 : ffffffff000000ff s6 : 0000000000ffffff s7 : 00000000ffffff00
> [ 0.000000] s8 : ffffffff80d9821a s9 : ffffffff81203d22 s10: 0000000000000002
> [ 0.000000] s11: ffffffff80d9821c t3 : ffffffff812f3617 t4 : ffffffff812f3617
> [ 0.000000] t5 : ffffffff812f3618 t6 : ffffffff81203d08
> [ 0.000000] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 00000000401c31ac cause: 000000000000000d
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80338936>] vsnprintf+0x1e4/0x336
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80055ae2>] vprintk_store+0xf6/0x344
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80055d86>] vprintk_emit+0x56/0x192
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80055ed8>] vprintk_default+0x16/0x1e
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff800563d2>] vprintk+0x72/0x80
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff806813b2>] _printk+0x36/0x50
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8068af48>] print_reserved_mem+0x1c/0x24
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff808057ec>] paging_init+0x528/0x5bc
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff808031ae>] setup_arch+0xd0/0x592
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8080070e>] start_kernel+0x82/0x73c
> [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> [ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> [ 0.000000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---
>
> We traced this back to early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() in
> setup_bootmem() - moving it later back up the boot sequence to
> after the dt has been remapped etc has fixed the problem for us.
>
> The least movement to get it working is attached, and also pushed
> here: git.kernel.org/conor/c/1735589baefc
>
> The second problem is a bit more complicated to explain - but we
> found the solution conflicted with the remoteproc fix as we had
> to move early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() _earlier_ in the boot
> process to solve this one.
>
> We want to have a node in our devicetree that contains some memory
> that is non-cached & marked as reserved-memory. Maybe we have just
> missed something, but from what we've seen:
> - the really early setup looks at the dtb, picks the highest bit
> of memory and puts the dtb etc there so it can start using it
> - early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() is then called, which figures
> out if memory is reserved or not.
>
> Unfortunately, the highest bit of memory is the non-cached bit so
> everything falls over, but we can avoid this by moving the call to
> early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() above the dtb memblock alloc that
> takes place right before it in setup_bootmem().
And then I suppose the allocations you are mentioning happen in
unflatten_XXX, so parsing the device tree for reserved memory nodes
before this should do the trick. Does the following fix your second issue?
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
index 2b09f0bd8432..94b3d049fe9d 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
@@ -277,14 +277,15 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
paging_init();
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB)
initial_boot_params = __va(XIP_FIXUP(dtb_early_pa));
+ early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
unflatten_and_copy_device_tree();
#else
- if (early_init_dt_verify(__va(XIP_FIXUP(dtb_early_pa))))
+ if (early_init_dt_verify(__va(XIP_FIXUP(dtb_early_pa)))) {
+ early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
unflatten_device_tree();
- else
+ } else
pr_err("No DTB found in kernel mappings\n");
#endif
- early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
misc_mem_init();
init_resources();
>
> Obviously, both of these changes are moving the function call in
> opposite directions and we can only really do one of them. We are not
> sure if what we are doing with the non-cached reserved-memory section
> is just not permitted & cannot work - or if this is something that
> was overlooked for RISC-V specifically and works for other archs.
>
> It does seem like the first issue is a real bug, and I am happy to
> submit the patch for that whenever - but having two problems with
> opposite fixes seemed as if there was something else lurking that we
> just don't have enough understanding to detect.
>
> Any help would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> Conor.
>
Even if that does not fix your issue, the first patch is necessary as it
fixes initial_boot_params.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> linux-riscv mailing list
> linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv
More information about the linux-riscv
mailing list