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SubjectRe: mm: OS boot failed when set command-line kmemcheck=1
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 02:24:41PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>
> > Here is a warning, I don't whether it is relative to my hardware.
> > If set "kmemcheck=1 nowatchdog", it can boot.
> >
> > code:
> > ...
> > pte = kmemcheck_pte_lookup(address);
> > if (!pte)
> > return false;
> >
> > WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi());
> >
> > if (error_code & 2)
> > ...

That code seems to assume NMI context cannot fault; this is false since
a while back (v3.9 or thereabouts).

> > [ 10.920757] [<ffffffff810452c1>] kmemcheck_fault+0xb1/0xc0
> > [ 10.920760] [<ffffffff814d262b>] __do_page_fault+0x39b/0x4c0
> > [ 10.920763] [<ffffffff814d2829>] do_page_fault+0x9/0x10
> > [ 10.920765] [<ffffffff814cf222>] page_fault+0x22/0x30
> > [ 10.920774] [<ffffffff8101eb02>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x142/0x3a0
> > [ 10.920777] [<ffffffff814d0655>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x35/0x60
> > [ 10.920779] [<ffffffff814cfe83>] nmi_handle+0x63/0x150
> > [ 10.920782] [<ffffffff814cffd3>] default_do_nmi+0x63/0x290
> > [ 10.920784] [<ffffffff814d02a8>] do_nmi+0xa8/0xe0
> > [ 10.920786] [<ffffffff814cf527>] end_repeat_nmi+0x1e/0x2e

And this does indeed show a fault from NMI context; which is totally
expected.

kmemcheck needs to be fixed; but I've no clue how any of that works.


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