Bug report: kernel paniced when system hibernates

Wed May 17 21:06:06 PDT 2023


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti at rivosinc.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 4:33 PM
> To: JeeHeng Sia <jeeheng.sia at starfivetech.com>
> Cc: Song Shuai <suagrfillet at gmail.com>; robh at kernel.org; Andrew Jones <ajones at ventanamicro.com>; anup at brainfault.org;
> palmer at rivosinc.com; Leyfoon Tan <leyfoon.tan at starfivetech.com>; Mason Huo <mason.huo at starfivetech.com>; Paul Walmsley
> <paul.walmsley at sifive.com>; Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>; Guo Ren <guoren at kernel.org>; linux-
> riscv at lists.infradead.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Bug report: kernel paniced when system hibernates
> 
> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 1:27 PM JeeHeng Sia
> <jeeheng.sia at starfivetech.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti at rivosinc.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 7:15 PM
> > > To: JeeHeng Sia <jeeheng.sia at starfivetech.com>
> > > Cc: Song Shuai <suagrfillet at gmail.com>; robh at kernel.org; Andrew Jones <ajones at ventanamicro.com>; anup at brainfault.org;
> > > palmer at rivosinc.com; Leyfoon Tan <leyfoon.tan at starfivetech.com>; Mason Huo <mason.huo at starfivetech.com>; Paul Walmsley
> > > <paul.walmsley at sifive.com>; Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>; Guo Ren <guoren at kernel.org>; linux-
> > > riscv at lists.infradead.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> > > Subject: Re: Bug report: kernel paniced when system hibernates
> > >
> > > Hi JeeHeng,
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:55 AM JeeHeng Sia
> > > <jeeheng.sia at starfivetech.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Song,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the investigation. Indeed, the exposure of the PMP reserved region to the kernel page table is causing the problem.
> > > > Here is the similar report: https://groups.google.com/u/0/a/groups.riscv.org/g/sw-dev/c/ITXwaKfA6z8
> > >
> > > IMO, we should discuss the kernel related stuff on the linux riscv ML,
> > > I'm not subscribed to the group above and you did not answer my last
> > > direct emails regarding this problem either.
> > Hi Alex, it's strange that I haven't received a reply from you.
> 
> I should stop using my personal email as it gets more and more
> blocked, I don't know why.
> 
> > Seems like I have forgot to update to the mailing list.
> > By the way, the reason hibernation failed with the recent page table is because during the initiation of the hibernation process, the
> hibernation core accesses the page table to check if the page can be saved. Since the page is reserved and is available to the page
> table, the kernel tries to access the PMP region, which causes a kernel panic. The code can be found under:
> > /kernel/power/snapshot.c/ line #1340
> > if (PageReserved(page) && (!kernel_page_present(page) || pfn_is_nosave(pfn)))
> 
> Thanks for this pointer, it really helps!
np.
> 
> > If the virtual memory is mapped to the kernel page table, then hibernation core will try to access the page.
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Alex
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Regards
> > > > Jee Heng
> 
> Is your issue also related to hibernation?
My issue is related to memory testing/debugging. I am glad to see more and more people interested in the RISC-V Hibernation solution.
> 
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Song Shuai <suagrfillet at gmail.com>
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 5:24 PM
> > > > > To: alexghiti at rivosinc.com; robh at kernel.org; Andrew Jones <ajones at ventanamicro.com>; anup at brainfault.org;
> > > > > palmer at rivosinc.com; JeeHeng Sia <jeeheng.sia at starfivetech.com>; Leyfoon Tan <leyfoon.tan at starfivetech.com>; Mason
> Huo
> > > > > <mason.huo at starfivetech.com>; Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley at sifive.com>; Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>;
> > > Guo
> > > > > Ren <guoren at kernel.org>
> > > > > Cc: linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> > > > > Subject: Bug report: kernel paniced when system hibernates
> > > > >
> > > > > Description of problem:
> > > > >
> > > > > The latest hibernation support[1] of RISC-V Linux produced a kernel panic.
> > > > > The entire log has been posted at this link: https://termbin.com/sphl .
> > > > >
> > > > > How reproducible:
> > > > >
> > > > > You can reproduce it with the following step :
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. prepare the environment with
> > > > > - Qemu-virt v8.0.0 (with OpenSbi v1.2)
> > > > > - Linux v6.4-rc1
> > > > >
> > > > > 2. start the Qemu virt
> > > > > ```sh
> > > > > $ cat ~/8_riscv/start_latest.sh
> > > > > #!/bin/bash
> > > > > /home/song/8_riscv/3_acpi/qemu/ooo/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-riscv64 \
> > > > > -smp 2 -m 4G -nographic -machine virt \
> > > > > -kernel /home/song/9_linux/linux/00_rv_test/arch/riscv/boot/Image \
> > > > > -append "root=/dev/vda ro eaylycon=uart8250,mmio,0x10000000
> > > > > early_ioremap_debug console=ttyS0 loglevel=8 memblock=debug
> > > > > no_console_suspend audit=0 3" \
> > > > > -drive file=/home/song/8_riscv/fedora/stage4-disk.img,format=raw,id=hd0 \
> > > > > -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \
> > > > > -drive file=/home/song/8_riscv/fedora/adisk.qcow2,format=qcow2,id=hd1 \
> > > > > -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd1 \
> > > > > -gdb tcp::1236 #-S
> > > > > ```
> > > > > 3. execute hibernation
> > > > >
> > > > > ```sh
> > > > > swapon /dev/vdb2 # this is my swap disk
> > > > >
> > > > > echo disk > /sys/power/state
> > > > > ```
> > > > >
> > > > > 4. Then you will encounter the kernel panic logged in the above link
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Other Information:
> > > > >
> > > > > After my initial and incomplete dig-up, the commit (3335068f8721
> > > > > "riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages for the linear mapping")[2]
> > > > > is closely related to this panic. This commit uses re-defined
> > > > > `MIN_MEMBLOCK_ADDR` to discover the entire system memory
> > > > > and extends the `va_pa_offset` from `kernel_map.phys_addr` to
> > > > > `phys_ram_base` for linear memory mapping.
> > > > >
> > > > > If the firmware delivered the firmware memory region (like: a PMP
> > > > > protected region in OpenSbi) without "no-map" propriety,
> > > > > this commit will result in firmware memory being directly mapped by
> > > > > `create_linear_mapping_page_table()`.
> > > > >
> > > > > We can see the mapping via ptdump :
> > > > > ```c
> > > > > ---[ Linear mapping ]---
> > > > > 0xff60000000000000-0xff60000000200000 0x0000000080000000 2M PMD D A G
> > > > > . . W R V ------------- the firmware memory
> > > > > 0xff60000000200000-0xff60000000c00000 0x0000000080200000 10M PMD D A G . . . R V
> > > > > 0xff60000000c00000-0xff60000001000000 0x0000000080c00000 4M PMD D A G . . W R V
> > > > > 0xff60000001000000-0xff60000001600000 0x0000000081000000 6M PMD D A G . . . R V
> > > > > 0xff60000001600000-0xff60000040000000 0x0000000081600000 1002M PMD D A
> > > > > G . . W R V
> > > > > 0xff60000040000000-0xff60000100000000 0x00000000c0000000 3G PUD D A G . . W R V
> > > > > ---[ Modules/BPF mapping ]---
> > > > > ---[ Kernel mapping ]---
> > > > > 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff80a00000 0x0000000080200000 10M PMD D A G . X . R V
> > > > > 0xffffffff80a00000-0xffffffff80c00000 0x0000000080c00000 2M PMD D A G . . . R V
> > > > > 0xffffffff80c00000-0xffffffff80e00000 0x0000000080e00000 2M PMD D A G . . W R V
> > > > > 0xffffffff80e00000-0xffffffff81400000 0x0000000081000000 6M PMD D A G . . . R V
> > > > > 0xffffffff81400000-0xffffffff81800000 0x0000000081600000 4M PMD
> > > > > ```
> > > > >
> > > > > In the hibernation process, `swsusp_save()` calls
> > > > > `copy_data_pages(&copy_bm, &orig_bm)` to copy these two memory
> > > > > bitmaps,
> > > > > the Oops(load access fault) occurred while copying the page of
> > > > > PAGE_OFFSET (which maps the firmware memory).
> > > > >
> > > > > I also did two other tests:
> > > > > Test1:
> > > > >
> > > > > The hibernation works well in the kernel with the commit 3335068f8721
> > > > > reverted at least in the current environment.
> > > > >
> > > > > Test2:
> > > > >
> > > > > I built a simple kernel module to simulate the access of the value of
> > > > > `PAGE_OFFSET` address, and the same panic occurred with the load
> > > > > access fault.
> > > > > So hibernation seems not the only case to trigger this panic.
> > > > >
> > > > > Finally, should we always leave the firmware memory with
> > > > > `MEMBLOCK_NOMAP` flag by some efforts from Linux or OpenSbi (at least
> > > > > in the current environment) or any other suggestions?
> > > > >
> > > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> > > > >
> > > > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230330064321.1008373-5-jeeheng.sia@starfivetech.com
> > > > > [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230324155421.271544-4-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Song