linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] n_tty: use kmalloc() instead of vmalloc() to avoid crash on armada-xp

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Message-ID: <20150311184154.GF8656@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:41:54 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Stas Sergeev <stsp@...t.ru>
Cc:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Gregory Clément 
	<gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] n_tty: use kmalloc() instead of vmalloc() to avoid crash
 on armada-xp

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:38:53PM +0300, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> 11.03.2015 21:11, Thomas Petazzoni пишет:
> > Dear Stas Sergeev,
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:56:50 +0300, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> >
> >> It doesn't look like it works as intended.
> >> Got the crash below.
> >> Please note the mappings beyond 0xe0000000, so I wonder if
> >> the option worked as expected?
> > Are you sure you're not confusing virtual addresses and physical
> > addresses?
> OK, so I changed Russel's printk to the following way:
> 
> +printk("vmalloc: mapping page %p (0x%08lx000) at 0x%08lx 0x%08zx\n",
> +    page, page_to_pfn(page), addr, __pa(addr));
> 
> (added __pa(addr)) and now I hope I am seeing the physical
> addresses at the last column:

No, you don't want to do that...

> [   19.023836] vmalloc: mapping page ef7f1fa0 (0x000bfc7d000) at
                                        |          `- physical address
					`-struct page address
> 0xf04a3000 0x304a3000
    `- virtual address

__pa() doesn't work on addresses in the vmalloc region.

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