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Date:      Wed, 4 Nov 2015 16:11:01 -0800
From:      Jason Harmening <jason.harmening@gmail.com>
To:        Svatopluk Kraus <onwahe@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 Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Svatopluk Kraus <onwahe@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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().
>

I like the idea of storing off the physical address.  If you want to save
space in the sync list, I think you can place busaddr and pages in a union,
using vaddr == 0 to select which field to use.  Some people frown upon use
of unions, though.

Any reason the panics on PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE in load_buffer() and load_phys()
shouldn't be KASSERTs instead?



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