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Date:      Wed, 4 Nov 2015 23:17:30 +0100
From:      Svatopluk Kraus <onwahe@gmail.com>
To:        Jason Harmening <jason.harmening@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Ganbold Tsagaankhuu <ganbold@gmail.com>, src-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r289759 - in head/sys/arm: arm include
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Jason Harmening
<jason.harmening@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> It's almost certainly not related to sysinit ordering.  This exception
>> is happening during mmc probing after interrupts are enabled.
>>
>> It appears that the problem is the faulting code is running on one of
>> the very early pre-allocated kernel stacks (perhaps in an interrupt
>> handler on an idle thread stack), and these stacks are not in memory
>> represented in the vm page arrays.  The mmc code is using a 64-byte
>> buffer on the stack and mapping it for DMA.  Normally that causes a
>> bounce for cacheline alignment, but unluckily in this case that buffer
>> on the stack just happened to be aligned to a cacheline boundary and a
>> multiple of the cacheline size, so no bounce.  That causes the new sync
>> logic that is based on keeping vm_page_t pointers and offsets to get a
>> NULL pointer back from PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE when mapping, then it dies at
>> sync time trying to dereference that.  It used to work because the sync
>> logic used to use the vaddr, not a page pointer.
>>
>> Michal was working on a patch yesterday.
>>
>
> Ah, thanks for pointing that out Ian.  I was left scratching my head
> (admittedly on the road and w/o easy access to the code) wondering what on
> earth would be trying to do DMA during SI_SUB_CPU.
>


Using of fictitious pages is not so easy here as in case pointed by
kib@ where they are allocated and freed inside one function. For sync
list sake, they must be allocated when a buffer is loaded and freed
when is unloaded.

Michal uses pmap_kextract() in case when KVA of buffer is not zero in
his proof-of-concept patch:
https://gist.github.com/strejda/d5ca3ed202427a2e0557
When KVA of buffer is not zero, temporary mapping is not used at all,
so vm_page_t array is not needed too.

IMO, buffer's physical address can be saved in sync list to be used
when its KVA is not zero. Thus pmap_kextract() won't be called in
dma_dcache_sync().



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