linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm: dma-mapping: fix potential endless loop in __dma_page_dev_to

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Message-ID: <ZNEagJ6rVDwBKUdr@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2023 17:23:28 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: dma-mapping: fix potential endless loop in
 __dma_page_dev_to_cpu()

On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 05:26:57PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> It is possible that the folio_size() of the next folio returns zero, so

What?  How can folio_size() return zero?

        return PAGE_SIZE << folio_order(folio);

It is a minimum of PAGE_SIZE.

> avoid looping with 'left' equals to zero in D-cache cleaning loop.
> 
> This fixes the following endless loop observed by RCU stall:
> --->8---
> rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
> rcu:     0-....: (27320 ticks this GP) idle=e414/1/0x40000002 softirq=36/36 fqs=13044
> rcu:     (t=27385 jiffies g=-1067 q=34 ncpus=8)
> CPU: 0 PID: 93 Comm: kworker/0:1H Not tainted 6.5.0-rc5-next-20230807 #6981
> Hardware name: Samsung Exynos (Flattened Device Tree)
> Workqueue: mmc_complete mmc_blk_mq_complete_work
> PC is at _set_bit+0x28/0x44
> LR is at __dma_page_dev_to_cpu+0xdc/0x170
> ..
>  _set_bit from __dma_page_dev_to_cpu+0xdc/0x170
>  __dma_page_dev_to_cpu from dma_direct_unmap_sg+0x100/0x130
>  dma_direct_unmap_sg from dw_mci_post_req+0x68/0x6c
>  dw_mci_post_req from mmc_blk_mq_post_req+0x34/0x100

I don't know what you've actually hit here, but the explanation is wrong.