On Fri, 2018-05-18 at 09:42:23 UTC, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
From: Vaibhav Jain vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
Currently we see a kernel-oops reported on Power-9 while attaching a context to an AFU, with radix-mode and sysfs attr 'prefault_mode' set to anything other than 'none'. The backtrace of the oops is of this form:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000080 Faulting instruction address: 0xc00800000bcf3b20 cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000037f003800] pc: c00800000bcf3b20: cxl_load_segment+0x178/0x290 [cxl] lr: c00800000bcf39f0: cxl_load_segment+0x48/0x290 [cxl] sp: c00000037f003a80 msr: 9000000000009033 dar: 80 dsisr: 40000000 current = 0xc00000037f280000 paca = 0xc0000003ffffe600 softe: 3 irq_happened: 0x01 pid = 3529, comm = afp_no_int
<snip> [c00000037f003af0] c00800000bcf4424 cxl_prefault+0xfc/0x248 [cxl] [c00000037f003b50] c00800000bcf8a40 process_element_entry_psl9+0xd8/0x1a0 [cxl] [c00000037f003b90] c00800000bcf944c cxl_attach_dedicated_process_psl9+0x44/0x130 [cxl] [c00000037f003bd0] c00800000bcf5448 native_attach_process+0xc0/0x130 [cxl] [c00000037f003c50] c00800000bcf16cc afu_ioctl+0x3f4/0x5e0 [cxl] [c00000037f003d00] c00000000039d98c do_vfs_ioctl+0xdc/0x890 [c00000037f003da0] c00000000039e1a8 ksys_ioctl+0x68/0xf0 [c00000037f003df0] c00000000039e270 sys_ioctl+0x40/0xa0 [c00000037f003e30] c00000000000b320 system_call+0x58/0x6c --- Exception: c01 (System Call) at 0000000010053bb0
The issue is caused as on Power-8 the AFU attr 'prefault_mode' was used to improve initial storage fault performance by prefaulting process segments. However on Power-9 with radix mode we don't have Storage-Segments that we can prefault. Also prefaulting process Pages will be too costly and fine-grained.
Hence, since the prefaulting mechanism doesn't makes sense of radix-mode, this patch updates prefault_mode_store() to not allow any other value apart from CXL_PREFAULT_NONE when radix mode is enabled.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: f24be42aab37 ("cxl: Add psl9 specific code") Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain vaibhav@linux.ibm.com Acked-by: Frederic Barrat fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b6c84ba22ff3a198eb8d5552cf9b8f
cheers