Message-ID: <CAOnJCUJMjGWvhB5i6-N7POGX=oaTnh559JhTVWreocj61Z1zaQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 22:44:45 -0700
From:   Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
Cc:     Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@....com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@...ive.com>,
        Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@....com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        sudeep.holla@....com, Zong Li <zong.li@...ive.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@...ive.com>,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] RISC-V: Do not rely on initrd_start/end computed
 during early dt parsing

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:12 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:30:08 PDT (-0700), Atish Patra wrote:
> > Currently, initrd_start/end are computed during early_init_dt_scan
> > but used during arch_setup. We will get the following panic if initrd is used
> > and CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is turned on.
> >
> > [    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [    0.000000] kernel BUG at arch/riscv/mm/physaddr.c:33!
> > [    0.000000] Kernel BUG [#1]
> > [    0.000000] Modules linked in:
> > [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.8.0-rc4-00015-ged0b226fed02 #886
> > [    0.000000] epc: ffffffe0002058d2 ra : ffffffe0000053f0 sp : ffffffe001001f40
> > [    0.000000]  gp : ffffffe00106e250 tp : ffffffe001009d40 t0 : ffffffe00107ee28
> > [    0.000000]  t1 : 0000000000000000 t2 : ffffffe000a2e880 s0 : ffffffe001001f50
> > [    0.000000]  s1 : ffffffe0001383e8 a0 : ffffffe00c087e00 a1 : 0000000080200000
> > [    0.000000]  a2 : 00000000010bf000 a3 : ffffffe00106f3c8 a4 : ffffffe0010bf000
> > [    0.000000]  a5 : ffffffe000000000 a6 : 0000000000000006 a7 : 0000000000000001
> > [    0.000000]  s2 : ffffffe00106f068 s3 : ffffffe00106f070 s4 : 0000000080200000
> > [    0.000000]  s5 : 0000000082200000 s6 : 0000000000000000 s7 : 0000000000000000
> > [    0.000000]  s8 : 0000000080011010 s9 : 0000000080012700 s10: 0000000000000000
> > [    0.000000]  s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : 000000000001fe30 t4 : 000000000001fe30
> > [    0.000000]  t5 : 0000000000000000 t6 : ffffffe00107c471
> > [    0.000000] status: 0000000000000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 0000000000000003
> > [    0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from print_oops_end_marker+0x22/0x46 with crng_init=0
> >
> > To avoid the error, initrd_start/end can be computed from phys_initrd_start/size
> > in setup itself. It also improves the initrd placement by aligning the start
> > and size with the page size.
> >
> > Fixes: 6435f773d81f (riscv: mm: add support for CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL)
> > Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
> > ---
> >  arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > index 8d22973bde40..f818a47a72d1 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > @@ -95,19 +95,40 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
> >  static void __init setup_initrd(void)
> >  {
> > +     phys_addr_t start;
> >       unsigned long size;
> >
> > -     if (initrd_start >= initrd_end) {
> > -             pr_info("initrd not found or empty");
> > +     /* Ignore the virtul address computed during device tree parsing */
> > +     initrd_start = initrd_end = 0;
> > +
> > +     if (!phys_initrd_size)
> > +             return;
> > +     /*
> > +      * Round the memory region to page boundaries as per free_initrd_mem()
> > +      * This allows us to detect whether the pages overlapping the initrd
> > +      * are in use, but more importantly, reserves the entire set of pages
> > +      * as we don't want these pages allocated for other purposes.
> > +      */
> > +     start = round_down(phys_initrd_start, PAGE_SIZE);
> > +     size = phys_initrd_size + (phys_initrd_start - start);
> > +     size = round_up(size, PAGE_SIZE);
> > +
> > +     if (!memblock_is_region_memory(start, size)) {
> > +             pr_err("INITRD: 0x%08llx+0x%08lx is not a memory region",
> > +                    (u64)start, size);
> >               goto disable;
> >       }
> > -     if (__pa_symbol(initrd_end) > PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn)) {
> > -             pr_err("initrd extends beyond end of memory");
> > +
> > +     if (memblock_is_region_reserved(start, size)) {
> > +             pr_err("INITRD: 0x%08llx+0x%08lx overlaps in-use memory region\n",
> > +                    (u64)start, size);
> >               goto disable;
> >       }
> >
> > -     size = initrd_end - initrd_start;
> > -     memblock_reserve(__pa_symbol(initrd_start), size);
> > +     memblock_reserve(start, size);
> > +     /* Now convert initrd to virtual addresses */
> > +     initrd_start = (unsigned long)__va(phys_initrd_start);
> > +     initrd_end = initrd_start + phys_initrd_size;
> >       initrd_below_start_ok = 1;
> >
> >       pr_info("Initial ramdisk at: 0x%p (%lu bytes)\n",
>
> I'm going to put this one on fixes, but I don't think that's the right:
> DEBUG_VIRTUAL just catches the bug, but as far as I can tell it's been there
> since the beginning.  I'm going to replace this with
>
> Fixes: 76d2a0493a17 ("RISC-V: Init and Halt Code")
>
> It's not going to apply back that far, but we can always backport it where it
> fails.
>

Yeah. That's that reason I didn't want to go that far.
I am afraid Greg may be not too happy with the stable tree compilation
failures (if there are any) :)

> Thanks!
>
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-- 
Regards,
Atish

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