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Message-ID: <tencent_C1CE680F8B300559050D967C7DC8305CA90A@qq.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2023 20:41:48 +0800
From:   Woody Zhang <woodylab@...mail.com>
To:     Song Shuai <songshuaishuai@...ylab.org>
Cc:     Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: move memblock_allow_resize() after lm is ready

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 05:51:23PM +0800, Song Shuai wrote:
>
>
>在 2023/6/12 15:15, Alexandre Ghiti 写道:
>> Hi Woody,
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 1:49 AM Woody Zhang <woodylab@...mail.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > The initial memblock metadata is accessed from kernel image mapping. The
>> > regions arrays need to "reallocated" from memblock and accessed through
>> > linear mapping to cover more memblock regions. So the resizing should
>> > not be allowed until linear mapping is ready. Note that there are
>> > memblock allocations when building linear mapping.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Woody Zhang <woodylab@...mail.com>
>> > ---
>> >   arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 4 +++-
>> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
>> > index 9e9da69720ce..8a33ecbb4d0f 100644
>> > --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
>> > +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
>> > @@ -258,7 +258,6 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
>> >          dma_contiguous_reserve(dma32_phys_limit);
>> >          if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT))
>> >                  hugetlb_cma_reserve(PUD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
>> > -       memblock_allow_resize();
>> >   }
>> > 
>> >   #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>> > @@ -1250,6 +1249,9 @@ static void __init setup_vm_final(void)
>> >          csr_write(CSR_SATP, PFN_DOWN(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_dir)) | satp_mode);
>> >          local_flush_tlb_all();
>> > 
>> > +       /* Depend on that Linear Mapping is ready */
>> > +       memblock_allow_resize();
>> > +
>> >          pt_ops_set_late();
>> >   }
>> >   #else
>> > --
>> > 2.39.2
>> > 
>> 
>> The commit log does not describe the issue thoroughly enough to me,
>> maybe you could point to the arm64 commit that did the same? I mean
>> commit 24cc61d8cb5a ("arm64: memblock: don't permit memblock resizing
>> until linear mapping is up").
>@Alex
>
>I reproduced the problem as the arm64 commit describes.
>You can find the complete log via this link: https://termbin.com/bx0o
>
>I constructed the dtb with numerous discrete /memreserve/ regions
>(the numbers of these regions approximate INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS) which full
>the reserved regions up.
>
>When memblock_allow_resize was set, the calling of memblock_reserve() would
>double/resize the reserved regions and do the __memcopy() from the old
>regions ( mapped by kernel)
>to the new ones (provided by __va()).
>But before the linear mapping was ready (like: during the creating of linear
>mapping),
>memblock_reserve() was called and the memcopy would trigger a Store/AMO page
>fault.
>
>> 
>> Another point is that I would not put this call into setup_vm_final(),
>> I'd rather add it in paging_init() as it does not seem like a good fit
>> for setup_vm_final(). But that's a nit so up to you of course.
>> 
>I agree.
>
>@Woody
>
>I noticed your V2 [1] didn't take this suggestion, maybe you can take it at
>V3.
>And it will be more sound if you supplement the commit-msg with the panic
>info from the log.
>

Thanks for your comments. I will update it with your panic log in next
version.


Woody