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SubjectRe: [patch 0/4] x86: PAT followup - Incremental changes and bug fixes
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:42:28PM +0100, Andreas Herrmann3 wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Andreas Herrmann3 <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > > Meanwhile I have figured out that it is some ACPI stuff that maps the
> > > page cached. I've changed the ioremap's in drivers/acpi/osl.c to
> > > ioremap_nocache. See attached patch.
> > >
> > > Now the machine boots without conflicts.
> >
> > ah, nice!
> >
> > but in general we must be robust enough in this case and just degrade
> > any overlapping page to UC (and emit a warning perhaps) - instead of
> > failing the ioremap and thus failing the driver (and the bootup).
> >
> > Does my third patch (which falls back to UC in case of attribute
> > conflicts, also attached below) instead of your ioremap_nocache() patch
> > solve your bootup problem too?
>
> I'll check this asap

Ok, here is the result:

sata_sil 0000:00:12.0: version 2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
ioremap_nocache: addr c0403000, size 200
swapper:1 conflicting cache attribute c0403000-c0404000 uncached<->default
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP:
[<ffffffff8102905d>] ? reserve_mat
1a5/0x221
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 3
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc8-gd294e9ed-dirty #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8102905d>] [<ffffffff8102905d>] ? reserve_mattr+0x1a5/0x221
RSP: 0018:ffff810077581c60 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 000000000000004e RBX: ffff8100775a7a00 RCX: 0000000000004c12
RDX: 000000000000a9a9 RSI: 0000000000000018 RDI: ffffffff8153bed4
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff81540fe7 R09: ffffffff81329d70
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000c0404000
R13: 0000000000000018 R14: 00000000c0403000 R15: 00000000c0403000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8100775d6bc0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000001001000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff810077580000, task ffff810077564790)
Stack: ffffffff81411900 0000000000001000 0000000000001000 00000000c0404000
ffffc200008ac000 00000000c0403000 ffff8100775a7a40 ffffffff810281e9
0000000000000018 0000000000000005 ffff810077631680 ffff8100777b7800
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810281e9>] __ioremap+0xc2/0x11a
[<ffffffff8114a6b0>] pcim_iomap+0x43/0x53
[<ffffffff8114a74f>] pcim_iomap_regions+0x8f/0x104
[<ffffffff811fba72>] sil_init_one+0xb0/0x1eb
[<ffffffff81150f98>] pci_device_probe+0xd1/0x138
[<ffffffff811a4d9c>] driver_probe_device+0xe1/0x16a
[<ffffffff811a4f6d>] __driver_attach+0x90/0xcd
[<ffffffff811a4edd>] __driver_attach+0x0/0xcd
[<ffffffff811a4edd>] __driver_attach+0x0/0xcd
[<ffffffff811a4149>] bus_for_each_dev+0x43/0x6e
[<ffffffff811a44c9>] bus_add_driver+0x77/0x1be
[<ffffffff8115116e>] __pci_register_driver+0x58/0x8a
[<ffffffff814d2634>] kernel_init+0x170/0x2e0
[<ffffffff8100cb58>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
[<ffffffff814d24c4>] kernel_init+0x0/0x2e0
[<ffffffff8100cb4e>] child_rip+0x0/0x12


Code: 00 49 89 c9 48 81 c6 e0 02 00 00 48 89 3c 24 31 c0 4d 89 e0 4c 89 f1 48 c7 c7 c3 97 3e 81 e8 71 ef 00 00 48 c7 43 10 18 00 00 00 <48> 83 3c 25 00 00 00 00 00 74 36 48 c7 04 25 00 00 00 00 18 00
RIP [<ffffffff8102905d>] ? reserve_mattr+0x1a5/0x221
RSP <ffff810077581c60>
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace 5516cbea98bb72f9 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!



I should have reviewed your patch.
I guess it must be

"if (fattr)" instead of "if (*fattr)"

I'll give it another try ...


Andreas





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