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Wysocki" Cc: Mark Kettenis , Jia He , Harb Abdulhamid , Will Deacon , Len Brown , Robert Moore , Erik Kaneda , Linux ARM , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ACPI Devel Maling List , "open list:ACPI COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE (ACPICA)" , Ard Biesheuvel , Hanjun Guo , Catalin Marinas , Rafael Wysocki Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "ACPI: Add memory semantics to acpi_os_map_memory()" Message-ID: <20210924090409.GA26089@lpieralisi> References: <20210910122820.26886-1-justin.he@arm.com> <20210910143223.6705-1-justin.he@arm.com> <20210922163336.GA24633@lpieralisi> <56147a0b8b9fba46@bloch.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20210923094031.GA6454@lpieralisi> <56147c6e73afe9f6@bloch.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 02:54:52PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 2:26 PM Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > > > From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" > > > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:05:05 +0200 > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:40 AM Lorenzo Pieralisi > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 01:09:58AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > > > > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:33:36 +0100 > > > > > > From: Lorenzo Pieralisi > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 10:32:23PM +0800, Jia He wrote: > > > > > > > This reverts commit 437b38c51162f8b87beb28a833c4d5dc85fa864e. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > After this commit, a boot panic is alway hit on an Ampere EMAG server > > > > > > > with call trace as follows: > > > > > > > Internal error: synchronous external abort: 96000410 [#1] SMP > > > > > > > Modules linked in: > > > > > > > CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.14.0+ #462 > > > > > > > Hardware name: MiTAC RAPTOR EV-883832-X3-0001/RAPTOR, BIOS 0.14 02/22/2019 > > > > > > > pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) > > > > > > > [...snip...] > > > > > > > Call trace: > > > > > > > acpi_ex_system_memory_space_handler+0x26c/0x2c8 > > > > > > > acpi_ev_address_space_dispatch+0x228/0x2c4 > > > > > > > acpi_ex_access_region+0x114/0x268 > > > > > > > acpi_ex_field_datum_io+0x128/0x1b8 > > > > > > > acpi_ex_extract_from_field+0x14c/0x2ac > > > > > > > acpi_ex_read_data_from_field+0x190/0x1b8 > > > > > > > acpi_ex_resolve_node_to_value+0x1ec/0x288 > > > > > > > acpi_ex_resolve_to_value+0x250/0x274 > > > > > > > acpi_ds_evaluate_name_path+0xac/0x124 > > > > > > > acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x90/0x410 > > > > > > > acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x4ac/0x5d8 > > > > > > > acpi_ps_parse_aml+0xe0/0x2c8 > > > > > > > acpi_ps_execute_method+0x19c/0x1ac > > > > > > > acpi_ns_evaluate+0x1f8/0x26c > > > > > > > acpi_ns_init_one_device+0x104/0x140 > > > > > > > acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0x158/0x1d0 > > > > > > > acpi_ns_initialize_devices+0x194/0x218 > > > > > > > acpi_initialize_objects+0x48/0x50 > > > > > > > acpi_init+0xe0/0x498 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > As mentioned by Lorenzo: > > > > > > > "We are forcing memory semantics mappings to PROT_NORMAL_NC, which > > > > > > > eMAG does not like at all and I'd need to understand why. It looks > > > > > > > like the issue happen in SystemMemory Opregion handler." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hence just revert it before everything is clear. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Fixes: 437b38c51162 ("ACPI: Add memory semantics to acpi_os_map_memory()") > > > > > > > Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi > > > > > > > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel > > > > > > > Cc: Hanjun Guo > > > > > > > Cc: Catalin Marinas > > > > > > > Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki > > > > > > > Cc: Harb Abdulhamid > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jia He > > > > > > > > > > > > Rewrote the commit log, please take the patch below and repost > > > > > > it as a v3. > > > > > > > > > > > > It would still be great if Ampere can help us understand why > > > > > > the NormalNC attributes trigger a sync abort on the opregion > > > > > > before merging it. > > > > > > > > > > To be honest, I don't think you really need an explanation from Ampere > > > > > here. Mapping a part of the address space that doesn't provide memory > > > > > semantics with NormalNC attributes is wrong and triggering a sync > > > > > abort in that case is way better than silently ignoring the access. > > > > > > > > That's understood and that's what I explained in the revert commit > > > > log, no question about it. > > > > > > > > I was just asking to confirm if that's what's actually happening. > > > > > > > > > Putting my OpenBSD hat on (where we have our own ACPI OSPM > > > > > implementation) I must say that we always interpreted SystemMemory as > > > > > memory mapped IO and I think that is a logical choice as SystemIO is > > > > > used for (non-memory mapped) IO. And I'd say that the ACPI OSPM code > > > > > should make sure that it uses properly aligned access to any Field > > > > > object that doesn't use AnyAcc as its access type. Even on x86! And > > > > > I'd say that AML that uses AnyAcc fields for SystemMemory OpRegions on > > > > > arm64 is buggy. > > > > > > > > > > But maybe relaxing this when the EFI memory map indicates that the > > > > > address space in question does provide memory semantics does make > > > > > sense. That should defenitely be documented in the ACPI standard > > > > > though. > > > > > > > > Mapping SystemMemory Opregions as "memory" does not make sense > > > > at all to me. Still, that's what Linux ACPICA code does (*if* > > > > that's what acpi_os_map_memory() is supposed to mean). > > > > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20210916160827.GA4525@lpieralisi > > > > > > It doesn't need to do that, though, if there are good enough arguments > > > to change the current behavior (and the argument here is that it may > > > be an MMIO region, so mapping it as memory doesn't really work, but it > > > also may be a region in memory - there is no rule in the spec by which > > > SystemMemory Opregions cannot be "memory" AFAICS) and if that change > > > doesn't introduce regressions in the installed base. > > > > > > > Where do we go from here, to be defined, we still have a bug > > > > to fix after the revert is applied. > > > > > > > > drivers/acpi/sysfs.c > > > > > > > > maps BERT error regions with acpi_os_map_memory(). > > > > > > That mechanism is basically used for exporting ACPI tables to user > > > space and they are known to reside in memory. Whether or not BERT > > > regions should be mapped in the same way is a good question. > > > > It is not inconceivable that BERT regions actually live in memory of > > the BMC that is exposed over a bus that doesn't implement memory > > semantics is it? > > No, it isn't, which is why I think that mapping them as RAM may not be > a good idea in general. Should I patch acpi_data_show() to map BERT error regions (well, that's what acpi_data_show() is used on at the moment) as MMIO and use the related memcpy routine to read them then :) ? Lorenzo > At the same time, mapping the ACPI tables like the DSDT etc. as RAM is > always valid.