Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:20:28 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Undo the split of setup_cpu_entry_area |
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > > On Dec 2, 2017, at 2:47 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >> > >>> On Fri, 1 Dec 2017, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >>> > >>> This is obviously a hack. Either the patch should be adjusted back to > >>> the version I sent or trap_init should forcibly initialize all PMDs > >>> by something like __set_fixmap(..., __mkpte(0)); or however it's spelled. > >> > >> I split it because the whole thing crashed when I kept the loop you had > >> because it tried to allocate stuff. Had no time to figure out why, so I > >> went the lazy way of making it "work". > > > > [ 0.000000] dump_stack+0x85/0xc5 > > [ 0.000000] warn_alloc+0x114/0x1c0 > > [ 0.000000] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x1089/0x10d0 > > [ 0.000000] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2e8/0x370 > > [ 0.000000] __get_free_pages+0x10/0x40 > > [ 0.000000] kpti_shadow_pagetable_walk+0x2b2/0x3e0 > > [ 0.000000] kpti_add_user_map+0xfe/0x330 > > [ 0.000000] kpti_add_mapping_cpu_entry+0x5a/0x100 > > [ 0.000000] trap_init+0x2c/0x7b > > [ 0.000000] start_kernel+0x24c/0x497 > > [ 0.000000] secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xb0 > > > > Cute, isn't it? And then further down the line it triplefaults of course. > > Hmm. My second patch should make this go away, though.
Yes, it's all a mess and I'm cleaning it up. Fighting with the PEBS/BTS buffers right now.
Thanks,
tglx
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