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Message-ID: <49bf4f67-e945-2b6f-732d-77c06d949b95@ti.com>
Date:   Sat, 28 Jan 2023 13:54:55 +0530
From:   "Raghavendra, Vignesh" <vigneshr@...com>
To:     "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lgoncalv@...hat.com>
CC:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
        stable-rt <stable-rt@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Carsten Emde <C.Emde@...dl.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...e.com>,
        Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>,
        Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
        Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>,
        Jeff Brady <jeffreyjbrady@...il.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 5.10.162-rt78

Hi Luis,

On 1/23/2023 10:02 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 03:25:57PM -0300, Luis Claudio R. Goncalves wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 03:37:35PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 09:51:07AM -0300, Luis Claudio R. Goncalves wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 08:49:28PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> On 1/19/23 8:44?PM, Luis Claudio R. Goncalves wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 04:09:44PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/19/23 2:03?PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Luis, all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:16:34AM -0300, Luis Claudio R. Goncalves wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:38:25PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm pleased to announce the 5.10.162-rt78 stable release.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> You can get this release via the git tree at:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>   branch: v5.10-rt
>>>>>>>>>>>>   Head SHA1: 143ef105f40a65f3ddd57121d4b4bc36eb10cc06
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Or to build 5.10.162-rt78 directly, the following patches should be applied:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I see that vanilla 5.10.162-rt78 fails to build with arm64 defconfig. [0] Full log [1]
>>>>>>>>>>> Any pointers on what maybe wrong?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> We see the same failure. 
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>   AS      arch/arm64/kernel/entry.o
>>>>>>>>>>> arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S: Assembler messages:
>>>>>>>>>>> arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:763: Error: immediate out of range at operand 3 -- `and x2,x19,#((1<<1)|(1<<0)|(1<<2)|(1<<3)|(1<<4)|(1<<5)|(1<<6)|(1<<13)|(1<<7))'
>>>>>>>>>>> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:367: arch/arm64/kernel/entry.o] Error 1
>>>>>>>>>>> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:503: arch/arm64/kernel] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>> make: *** [Makefile:1837: arch/arm64] Error 2
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The line is:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>        and     x2, x19, #_TIF_WORK_MASK
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I believe this is related to the arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
>>>>>>>>> changes in 5.10.162-rt78, specifically:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>     79a9991e87fe arm64: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
>>>>>>>>>     1ba44dcf789d Merge tag 'v5.10.162' into v5.10-rt
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The first one is the original change, coming from stable v5.10.162 and the
>>>>>>>>> second one has the merge conflict I fixed in that file due to the existence
>>>>>>>>> of TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY in PREEMPT_RT.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It escaped me that having TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY set to 13 breaks the AND
>>>>>>>>> statement reported above. Looking at
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>     b5a5a01d8e9a arm64: uaccess: remove addr_limit_user_check()
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> specially this note
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>     To ensure that _TIF_WORK_MASK can be used as an immediate value in an
>>>>>>>>>     AND instruction (as it is in `ret_to_user`), TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT is
>>>>>>>>>     renumbered to keep the constituent bits of _TIF_WORK_MASK contiguous.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I understand that I need to either have to renumber TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY
>>>>>>>>> to 8, with the risk of breaking something else, or backport commit
>>>>>>>>> b5a5a01d8e9a in order to remove TIF_FSCHECK and then safely renumber
>>>>>>>>> TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Guidance is welcome here :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Should we loop in here Jens, as having some overview of the needed
>>>>>>>> changes for io_uring rebase in the 5.10.y version? (doing so in the
>>>>>>>> mail).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Huh that's funky, I built and (runtime) tested this on arm64
>>>>>>> specifically. But I do remember some details about the first 8 bits on
>>>>>>> arm, but not arm64.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess we need to twiddle that asm to deal with eg 16 bits, rather than
>>>>>>> attempt to backport any TIF removal patches.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One simple solution, tested with defconfig plus FTRACE options (including
>>>>>> FTRACE_SYSCALLS) enabled, is:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
>>>>>> index 6eb36a2126e8..37f19bb49d38 100644
>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
>>>>>> @@ -70,12 +70,12 @@ void arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk);
>>>>>>  #define TIF_FSCHECK		5	/* Check FS is USER_DS on return */
>>>>>>  #define TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT	6	/* MTE Asynchronous Tag Check Fault */
>>>>>>  #define TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL	7	/* signal notifications exist */
>>>>>> -#define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE	8	/* syscall trace active */
>>>>>> +#define TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY	8
>>>>>>  #define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT	9	/* syscall auditing */
>>>>>>  #define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT	10	/* syscall tracepoint for ftrace */
>>>>>>  #define TIF_SECCOMP		11	/* syscall secure computing */
>>>>>>  #define TIF_SYSCALL_EMU		12	/* syscall emulation active */
>>>>>> -#define TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY	13
>>>>>> +#define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE	13	/* syscall trace active */
>>>>>>  #define TIF_MEMDIE		18	/* is terminating due to OOM killer */
>>>>>>  #define TIF_FREEZE		19
>>>>>>  #define TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK	20
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would that be acceptable? With that we ensure the bits in
>>>>>> _TIF_WORK_MASK are contiguous and within the 8 bits limit you
>>>>>> mentioned. And TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE did not seem to have any (build)
>>>>>> problem with the new value.
>>>>>
>>>>> That should work too, the _TIF_WORK_MASK bits being in the lower 8 bits
>>>>> is really all we should care about.
>>>>
>>>> Jens, Salvatore, Mike, I ran a few tests and confirmed that the current asm
>>>> code is not restricted to 8 bits. The problems is that there is a
>>>> requirement for the mask bits to be contiguous in that specific context.
>>>
>>> Just to confirm from the arm64 side, the instruction using this just requires
>>> the bits to be contiguous, there's no restriction on *which* bits those are.
>>
>> Thank you, that's really helpful!
>>  
>>> If you're going to mess around with the arm64 bits, please could you Cc someone
>>> form the arm64 side? e.g. I fixed a similar issue in mainline in commit:
>>>
>>>   870d16757ba8918c ("arm64: make _TIF_WORK_MASK bits contiguous")
>>>
>>> ... and either Will Deacon or Catalin Marinas may have had comments as they're
>>> the arm64 maintainers...
>>
>> Just to avoid confusion here, this change is specific to the v5.10-rt, not
>> applicable upstream nor to newer RT. We only saw the problem because
>> TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL was mapped to a bit used by TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY in
>> v5.10-rt (the PREEMPT_RT changes on top of stable v5.10). This is why
>> nobody from the arm64 side was copied initially, as we were trying to
>> assert what was the problem.
> 
> Sure, and sorry, I think my reply came across a bit stronger than I intended. I
> probably should have said something like: "please feel free to rope in one of
> us from the arm64 side".
> 
> I know from experience that this area is fairly subtle, and I'd like to help to
> ensure that the fix doesn't introduce a subtle breakage or interact poorly with
> future backports.
> 
>>>> The explanation from commit b5a5a01d8e9a ("arm64: uaccess: remove
>>>> addr_limit_user_check()") describes quite well our case:
>>>>
>>>>      To ensure that _TIF_WORK_MASK can be used as an immediate value in an
>>>>      AND instruction (as it is in `ret_to_user`), TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT is
>>>>      renumbered to keep the constituent bits of _TIF_WORK_MASK contiguous.
>>>>
>>>> My question is: do you prefer renumbering the bits or the neat asm hack
>>>> that Mike proposed? 
>>>
>>> I would strongly recommend renumbering the bits over changing the asm. That's
>>> going to be closer to what mainline has already done, and it avoids introducing
>>> weird ifdeffery.
>>>
>>> That said, rather than swapping TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE and TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY,
>>> you could just shuffle the bits down-by-one, keeping all the existing
>>> contiguity, e.g.
>>>
>>> 	#define TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY    8
>>> 	#define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE        9
>>> 	#define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT        10
>>> 	#define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT   11
>>>
>>> ... and so on.
>>
>> Would something like this be a good interpretation of your suggestion?
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
>> index 6eb36a212..2afd9ceb6 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
>> @@ -70,12 +70,12 @@ void arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk);
>>  #define TIF_FSCHECK		5	/* Check FS is USER_DS on return */
>>  #define TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT	6	/* MTE Asynchronous Tag Check Fault */
>>  #define TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL	7	/* signal notifications exist */
>> -#define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE	8	/* syscall trace active */
>> -#define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT	9	/* syscall auditing */
>> -#define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT	10	/* syscall tracepoint for ftrace */
>> -#define TIF_SECCOMP		11	/* syscall secure computing */
>> -#define TIF_SYSCALL_EMU		12	/* syscall emulation active */
>> -#define TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY	13
>> +#define TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY	8
>> +#define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE	9	/* syscall trace active */
>> +#define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT	10	/* syscall auditing */
>> +#define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT	11	/* syscall tracepoint for ftrace */
>> +#define TIF_SECCOMP		12	/* syscall secure computing */
>> +#define TIF_SYSCALL_EMU		13	/* syscall emulation active */
> 

I can confirm v5.10.162-rt179 which has above fix builds fine for arm64
defconfig. Thanks everyone addressing this issue!

Regards
Vignesh

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