[PATCH v3 4/4] ARM: Implement PAN for LPAE by TTBR0 page table walks disablement

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Linus,

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 9:24 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 3:10 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 7af5b901e84743c6 ("ARM:
> > 9358/2: Implement PAN for LPAE by TTBR0 page table walks disablement")
> > in arm/for-next (next-20240502 and later).
> >
> > On Koelsch (R-Car M2-W with dual Cortex A15) with LPAE enabled:
> >
> >     Run /sbin/init as init process
> >       with arguments:
> >         /sbin/init
> >       with environment:
> >         HOME=/
> >         TERM=linux
> >     Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004
> >     CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G        W        N
> > 6.9.0-rc1-koelsch-00004-g7af5b901e847 #1930
> >     Hardware name: Generic R-Car Gen2 (Flattened Device Tree)
> >     Call trace:
> >      unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14
> >      show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0xa8
> >      dump_stack_lvl from panic+0x118/0x398
> >      panic from do_exit+0x1ec/0x938
> >      do_exit from sys_exit_group+0x0/0x10
> >     ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> > exitcode=0x00000004 ]---
> >
> > Disabling LPAE fixes the issue.
>
> How annoying. I guess it doesn't help you that it works like a charm on
> Versatile Express in QEMU, and also actually tested on the real
> hardware. (Dual Cortex-A9).

Interesting. AFAIK Cortex-A9 does not support LPAE?

> So init is not executing, which userspace is this? I was  just testing
> with busybox so far, maybe I need to test on something
> bigger?
>
> Do you have your ARMv7 file system available in an image or so
> I can test it on Versatile Express?

It's just a Debian nfsroot.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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