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 [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] PATastic fun
 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 02:54:16PM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> Hi Konrad,
> 
> Hey Stefan,
>> 
>> here is another one from the hm-what? department:
> 
> Heh - the really good-bug-hunting one. Lets also include Jinsong as
> he has been tracking a similar one with mcelog.
>> 
>> Colin discovered that running the attached program with the fork
>> active (e.g. "./mmap-example -f 0x10000", the address can be that or
>> iomem) this triggers the following weird messages: 
>> 
>> [ 6824.453724] mmap-example:3481 map pfn expected mapping type
>> write-back for [mem 0x00010000-0x00010fff], got uncached-minus
>> [ 6824.453776] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [ 6824.453796] WARNING: at
>> /build/buildd/linux-3.8.0/arch/x86/mm/pat.c:774
>> untrack_pfn+0xb8/0xd0() ... [ 6824.453920] Pid: 3481, comm:
>> mmap-example Tainted: GF 
>> 3.8.0-6-generic #13-Ubuntu
>> [ 6824.453926] Call Trace:
>> [ 6824.453944]  [<ffffffff8105879f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
>> [ 6824.453954]  [<ffffffff810587fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
>> [ 6824.453963]  [<ffffffff8104bcc8>] untrack_pfn+0xb8/0xd0
>> [ 6824.453975]  [<ffffffff81156c1c>] unmap_single_vma+0xac/0x100
>> [ 6824.453985]  [<ffffffff81157459>] unmap_vmas+0x49/0x90
>> [ 6824.453995]  [<ffffffff8115f808>] exit_mmap+0x98/0x170
>> [ 6824.454007]  [<ffffffff810559a4>] mmput+0x64/0x100
>> [ 6824.454017]  [<ffffffff810560f5>] dup_mm+0x445/0x660
>> [ 6824.454027]  [<ffffffff81056d9f>]
>> copy_process.part.22+0xa5f/0x1510 [ 6824.454038] 
>> [<ffffffff81057931>] do_fork+0x91/0x350 [ 6824.454048] 
>> [<ffffffff81057c76>] sys_clone+0x16/0x20 [ 6824.454060] 
>> [<ffffffff816ccbf9>] stub_clone+0x69/0x90 [ 6824.454069] 
>> [<ffffffff816cc89d>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f [ 6824.454076]
>> ---[ end trace 4918cdd0a4c9fea4 ]--- 
>> 
>> I found that this is related to your bandaid patch
>> 
>> commit 8eaffa67b43e99ae581622c5133e20b0f48bcef1
>> Author: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Fri Feb 10 09:16:27 2012 -0500
>> 
>>     xen/pat: Disable PAT support for now.
>> 
>> I just do not understand how this happens. From the trace it seems
>> the fork 
>> fails when duplicating the VMAs (dup_mm calls mmput on failure). So
>> maybe the 
>> warning is just related to this. So primarily the question is how on
>> fork the _PAGE_PCD bit can become set? That and _PAGE_PWT are
>> cleared from the supported 
>> mask by the patch, so somehow I would think nothing should be able
>> to set it... 
>> But apparently not so.
>> Not sure it is a big deal since I never saw this in normal operation
>> and it 
>> seems to be ok when unapping before doing the fork. It is just plain
>> odd. 
> 
> Jinsong mentioned that there is some oddity with the MTRR. Somehow the
> ranges are swapped or not correct. Jinsong, could you shed some light
> on what you have found so far?
> 
Yes, Sander once also reported a similar weird warning when start mcelog 
daemon, as attached.
Basically, it occurs when mcelog user daemon start, 
do_fork
  --> copy_process
    --> dup_mm
      --> dup_mmap
        --> copy_page_range
          --> track_pfn_copy
            --> reserve_pfn_range
              --> line 624: flags != want_flags
It comes from different memory types of page table (_PAGE_CACHE_WB) and mtrr 
(_PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS).
However, why it get different memory types from page table and mtrr is still 
unclear, reproducing the bug is difficult and unstable.
Thanks,
Jinsong
>> 
>> -Stefan
> 
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <stdlib.h>
>> #include <stdint.h>
>> #include <stdbool.h>
>> #include <unistd.h>
>> #include <sys/mman.h>
>> #include <sys/types.h>
>> #include <sys/stat.h>
>> #include <sys/types.h>
>> #include <sys/wait.h>
>> #include <fcntl.h>
>> 
>> int main(int argc, char **argv)
>> {
>>      uint8_t *data;
>>      int fd;
>>      unsigned long long offset;
>>      pid_t pid;
>>      int status;
>>      int opt;
>>      bool opt_fork = false;
>> 
>>      while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "f")) != -1) {
>>              switch (opt) {
>>              case 'f':
>>                      opt_fork = true;
>>                      break;
>>              }
>>      }
>> 
>>      if (argc <= optind) {
>>              fprintf(stderr, "%s: [-f] address\n", argv[0]);
>>              fprintf(stderr, "\t-f specifices if we should fork with the
>>      mmap\n");               exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }
>>      if (sscanf(argv[optind], "%lli", &offset) != 1) {
>>              fprintf(stderr, "Cannot determine mmap address from %s\n",
>>      argv[optind]);          exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }
>> 
>>      if ((fd = open("/dev/mem", O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
>>              fprintf(stderr, "Cannot open /dev/mem\n");
>>              exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>>      }
>> 
>>      printf("mmap: 0x%llx..0x%llx\n", offset, offset + 4095);
>> 
>>      if ((data = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd,
>>              (off_t)offset)) == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "Cannot mmap
>>              0x%llx\n", offset); exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>>      }
>> 
>>      close(fd);
>> 
>>      if (opt_fork) {
>>              pid = fork();
>>              if (pid == 0) {
>>                      /* child */
>>                      _exit(0);
>>              } else {
>>                      /* parent */
>>                      waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
>>              }
>>      }
>> 
>>      if (munmap(data, 4096) < 0) {
>>              fprintf(stderr, "Cannot munmap %p\n", data);
>>              exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>>      }
>>      exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
>> }
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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