In kernel 5.9.0-rc1 on a PowerBook G4 (ppc32), several warnings of the following
type are logged:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185 set_pte_at+0x20/0x100
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.9.0-rc2 #2
NIP: c002add4 LR: c07dba40 CTR: 00000000
REGS: f1019d70 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.9.0-rc2)
MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 22000888 XER: 00000000
GPR00: c07dba40 f1019e28 eeca3220 eef7ace0 4e999000 eef7d664 f1019e50 00000000
GPR08: 007c2315 00000001 007c2315 f1019e48 22000888 00000000 c00054dc 00000000
GPR16: 00000000 00000000 2ef7d000 000007c2 fffffff0 eef7b000 000004e8 eef7d000
GPR24: eef7c5c0 00000000 007c2315 4e999000 c05ef548 eef7d664 c087cda8 007c2315
NIP [c002add4] set_pte_at+0x20/0x100
LR [c07dba40] debug_vm_pgtable+0x29c/0x654
Call Trace:
[f1019e28] [c002b4ac] pte_fragment_alloc+0x24/0xe4 (unreliable)
[f1019e48] [c07dba40] debug_vm_pgtable+0x29c/0x654
[f1019e98] [c0005160] do_one_initcall+0x70/0x158
[f1019ef8] [c07c352c] kernel_init_freeable+0x1f4/0x1f8
[f1019f28] [c00054f0] kernel_init+0x14/0xfc
[f1019f38] [c001516c] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
Instruction dump:
57ff053e 39610010 7c63fa14 4800308c 9421ffe0 7c0802a6 81250000 bfa10014
7cbd2b78 90010024 552907fe 83e60000 <0f090000> 3d20c089 83c91280 813e0018
---[ end trace 4ef67686e5133716 ]---
Although the warnings do no harm, I suspect that they should be fixed in case
some future modification turns the warning statements into BUGS.
The problem was bisected to commit a5c3b9ffb0f4 ("mm/debug_vm_pgtable: add tests
validating advanced arch page table helpers") by Anshuman Khandual
<[email protected]>
Thanks,
Larry
On 08/29/2020 06:40 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
> In kernel 5.9.0-rc1 on a PowerBook G4 (ppc32), several warnings of the following type are logged:
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185 set_pte_at+0x20/0x100
All those warnings triggered at the same place i.e arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185 ?
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.9.0-rc2 #2
> NIP: c002add4 LR: c07dba40 CTR: 00000000
> REGS: f1019d70 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.9.0-rc2)
> MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 22000888 XER: 00000000
>
> GPR00: c07dba40 f1019e28 eeca3220 eef7ace0 4e999000 eef7d664 f1019e50 00000000
> GPR08: 007c2315 00000001 007c2315 f1019e48 22000888 00000000 c00054dc 00000000
> GPR16: 00000000 00000000 2ef7d000 000007c2 fffffff0 eef7b000 000004e8 eef7d000
> GPR24: eef7c5c0 00000000 007c2315 4e999000 c05ef548 eef7d664 c087cda8 007c2315
> NIP [c002add4] set_pte_at+0x20/0x100
> LR [c07dba40] debug_vm_pgtable+0x29c/0x654
> Call Trace:
> [f1019e28] [c002b4ac] pte_fragment_alloc+0x24/0xe4 (unreliable)
> [f1019e48] [c07dba40] debug_vm_pgtable+0x29c/0x654
> [f1019e98] [c0005160] do_one_initcall+0x70/0x158
> [f1019ef8] [c07c352c] kernel_init_freeable+0x1f4/0x1f8
> [f1019f28] [c00054f0] kernel_init+0x14/0xfc
> [f1019f38] [c001516c] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
> Instruction dump:
> 57ff053e 39610010 7c63fa14 4800308c 9421ffe0 7c0802a6 81250000 bfa10014
> 7cbd2b78 90010024 552907fe 83e60000 <0f090000> 3d20c089 83c91280 813e0018
> ---[ end trace 4ef67686e5133716 ]---
>
> Although the warnings do no harm, I suspect that they should be fixed in case some future modification turns the warning statements into BUGS.
These warnings are from mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c test, wont be converted into BUGS.
But nonetheless, need to be addressed though.
>
> The problem was bisected to commit a5c3b9ffb0f4 ("mm/debug_vm_pgtable: add tests validating advanced arch page table helpers") by Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
There are some known issues wrt DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE on certain ppc64 platforms. But
I thought it worked all right on ppc32 platforms though. Adding Christophe Leroy
here. Currently, there is a series under review that makes DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE work
correctly on ppc64 platforms. Could you please give it a try and see if it fixes
these warnings ?
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/list/?series=339387
- Anshuman
Le 31/08/2020 à 12:46, Anshuman Khandual a écrit :
>
>
> On 08/29/2020 06:40 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
>> In kernel 5.9.0-rc1 on a PowerBook G4 (ppc32), several warnings of the following type are logged:
>>
>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185 set_pte_at+0x20/0x100
>
> All those warnings triggered at the same place i.e arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185 ?
>
>> Modules linked in:
>> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.9.0-rc2 #2
>> NIP: c002add4 LR: c07dba40 CTR: 00000000
>> REGS: f1019d70 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.9.0-rc2)
>> MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 22000888 XER: 00000000
>>
>> GPR00: c07dba40 f1019e28 eeca3220 eef7ace0 4e999000 eef7d664 f1019e50 00000000
>> GPR08: 007c2315 00000001 007c2315 f1019e48 22000888 00000000 c00054dc 00000000
>> GPR16: 00000000 00000000 2ef7d000 000007c2 fffffff0 eef7b000 000004e8 eef7d000
>> GPR24: eef7c5c0 00000000 007c2315 4e999000 c05ef548 eef7d664 c087cda8 007c2315
>> NIP [c002add4] set_pte_at+0x20/0x100
>> LR [c07dba40] debug_vm_pgtable+0x29c/0x654
>> Call Trace:
>> [f1019e28] [c002b4ac] pte_fragment_alloc+0x24/0xe4 (unreliable)
>> [f1019e48] [c07dba40] debug_vm_pgtable+0x29c/0x654
>> [f1019e98] [c0005160] do_one_initcall+0x70/0x158
>> [f1019ef8] [c07c352c] kernel_init_freeable+0x1f4/0x1f8
>> [f1019f28] [c00054f0] kernel_init+0x14/0xfc
>> [f1019f38] [c001516c] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
>> Instruction dump:
>> 57ff053e 39610010 7c63fa14 4800308c 9421ffe0 7c0802a6 81250000 bfa10014
>> 7cbd2b78 90010024 552907fe 83e60000 <0f090000> 3d20c089 83c91280 813e0018
>> ---[ end trace 4ef67686e5133716 ]---
>>
>> Although the warnings do no harm, I suspect that they should be fixed in case some future modification turns the warning statements into BUGS.
>
> These warnings are from mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c test, wont be converted into BUGS.
> But nonetheless, need to be addressed though.
>
>>
>> The problem was bisected to commit a5c3b9ffb0f4 ("mm/debug_vm_pgtable: add tests validating advanced arch page table helpers") by Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
>
> There are some known issues wrt DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE on certain ppc64 platforms. But
> I thought it worked all right on ppc32 platforms though. Adding Christophe Leroy
> here. Currently, there is a series under review that makes DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE work
> correctly on ppc64 platforms. Could you please give it a try and see if it fixes
> these warnings ?
I think all the tests I did were without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. The warning at
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185 is a VM_WARN_ON(), it means it generates a
real WARNING only when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set.
But that's one of the points reported by Aneesh for ppc64: set_pte_at()
should never be used to update an already existing PTE. That should be
fixed by Aneesh's series.
Christophe
On 8/31/20 5:46 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>
>
> On 08/29/2020 06:40 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
>> In kernel 5.9.0-rc1 on a PowerBook G4 (ppc32), several warnings of the following type are logged:
>>
>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185 set_pte_at+0x20/0x100
>
> All those warnings triggered at the same place i.e arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185 ?
>
>> Modules linked in:
>> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.9.0-rc2 #2
>> NIP: c002add4 LR: c07dba40 CTR: 00000000
>> REGS: f1019d70 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.9.0-rc2)
>> MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 22000888 XER: 00000000
>>
>> GPR00: c07dba40 f1019e28 eeca3220 eef7ace0 4e999000 eef7d664 f1019e50 00000000
>> GPR08: 007c2315 00000001 007c2315 f1019e48 22000888 00000000 c00054dc 00000000
>> GPR16: 00000000 00000000 2ef7d000 000007c2 fffffff0 eef7b000 000004e8 eef7d000
>> GPR24: eef7c5c0 00000000 007c2315 4e999000 c05ef548 eef7d664 c087cda8 007c2315
>> NIP [c002add4] set_pte_at+0x20/0x100
>> LR [c07dba40] debug_vm_pgtable+0x29c/0x654
>> Call Trace:
>> [f1019e28] [c002b4ac] pte_fragment_alloc+0x24/0xe4 (unreliable)
>> [f1019e48] [c07dba40] debug_vm_pgtable+0x29c/0x654
>> [f1019e98] [c0005160] do_one_initcall+0x70/0x158
>> [f1019ef8] [c07c352c] kernel_init_freeable+0x1f4/0x1f8
>> [f1019f28] [c00054f0] kernel_init+0x14/0xfc
>> [f1019f38] [c001516c] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
>> Instruction dump:
>> 57ff053e 39610010 7c63fa14 4800308c 9421ffe0 7c0802a6 81250000 bfa10014
>> 7cbd2b78 90010024 552907fe 83e60000 <0f090000> 3d20c089 83c91280 813e0018
>> ---[ end trace 4ef67686e5133716 ]---
>>
>> Although the warnings do no harm, I suspect that they should be fixed in case some future modification turns the warning statements into BUGS.
>
> These warnings are from mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c test, wont be converted into BUGS.
> But nonetheless, need to be addressed though.
>
>>
>> The problem was bisected to commit a5c3b9ffb0f4 ("mm/debug_vm_pgtable: add tests validating advanced arch page table helpers") by Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
>
> There are some known issues wrt DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE on certain ppc64 platforms. But
> I thought it worked all right on ppc32 platforms though. Adding Christophe Leroy
> here. Currently, there is a series under review that makes DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE work
> correctly on ppc64 platforms. Could you please give it a try and see if it fixes
> these warnings ?
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/list/?series=339387
That series of patches did get rid of the warnings.
Thanks,
Larry