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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:15:33 +0200
From:      Andreas Tobler <andreast@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu>, Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r269134 - head/sys/vm
Message-ID:  <53D95265.9010406@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <53D94D73.3050808@rice.edu>
References:  <201407261810.s6QIAIIj049439@svn.freebsd.org> <53D9406A.3060101@FreeBSD.org> <53D94BAF.8050102@rice.edu> <53D94D73.3050808@rice.edu>

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On 30.07.14 21:54, Alan Cox wrote:
> On 07/30/2014 14:46, Alan Cox wrote:
>> On 07/30/2014 13:58, Andreas Tobler wrote:
>>> Hi Alan,
>>>
>>> On 26.07.14 20:10, Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> Author: alc
>>>> Date: Sat Jul 26 18:10:18 2014
>>>> New Revision: 269134
>>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/269134
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>     When unwiring a region of an address space, do not assume that the
>>>>     underlying physical pages are mapped by the pmap.  If, for
>>>> example, the
>>>>     application has performed an mprotect(..., PROT_NONE) on any part
>>>> of the
>>>>     wired region, then those pages will no longer be mapped by the pmap.
>>>>     So, using the pmap to lookup the wired pages in order to unwire them
>>>>     doesn't always work, and when it doesn't work wired pages are leaked.
>>>>
>>>>     To avoid the leak, introduce and use a new function
>>>> vm_object_unwire()
>>>>     that locates the wired pages by traversing the object and its backing
>>>>     objects.
>>>>
>>>>     At the same time, switch from using pmap_change_wiring() to the
>>>> recently
>>>>     introduced function pmap_unwire() for unwiring the region's mappings.
>>>>     pmap_unwire() is faster, because it operates a range of virtual
>>>> addresses
>>>>     rather than a single virtual page at a time.  Moreover, by
>>>> operating on
>>>>     a range, it is superpage friendly.  It doesn't waste time performing
>>>>     unnecessary demotions.
>>>>
>>>>     Reported by:    markj
>>>>     Reviewed by:    kib
>>>>     Tested by:    pho, jmg (arm)
>>>>     Sponsored by:    EMC / Isilon Storage Division
>>> This commit brings my 32- and 64-bit PowerMac's into panic.
>>> Unfortunately I'm not able to give you a backtrace in the form of a
>>> textdump nor of a core dump.
>>>
>>> The only thing I have is this picture:
>>>
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~andreast/r269134_panic.jpg
>>>
>>> Exactly this revision gives a panic and breaks the textdump/coredump
>>> facility.
>>>
>>> How can I help debugging?
>>>
>> It appears to me that moea64_pvo_enter() had a pre-existing bug that got
>> tickled by this change.  Specifically, moea64_pvo_enter() doesn't set
>> the PVO_WIRED flag when an unwired mapping already exists.  It just
>> returns with the mapping still in an unwired state.  Consequently, when
>> pmap_unwire() finally runs, it doesn't find a wired mapping.
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> Index: powerpc/aim/mmu_oea64.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- powerpc/aim/mmu_oea64.c     (revision 269127)
>> +++ powerpc/aim/mmu_oea64.c     (working copy)
>> @@ -2274,7 +2274,8 @@ moea64_pvo_enter(mmu_t mmu, pmap_t pm, uma_zone_t
>>                  if (pvo->pvo_pmap == pm && PVO_VADDR(pvo) == va) {
>>                          if ((pvo->pvo_pte.lpte.pte_lo & LPTE_RPGN) == pa &&
>>                              (pvo->pvo_pte.lpte.pte_lo & (LPTE_NOEXEC |
>> LPTE_PP))
>> -                           == (pte_lo & (LPTE_NOEXEC | LPTE_PP))) {
>> +                           == (pte_lo & (LPTE_NOEXEC | LPTE_PP)) &&
>> +                           ((pvo->pvo_vaddr ^ flags) & PVO_WIRED)) {
>>                                  if (!(pvo->pvo_pte.lpte.pte_hi &
>> LPTE_VALID)) {
>>                                          /* Re-insert if spilled */
>>                                          i = MOEA64_PTE_INSERT(mmu, ptegidx,
>>
>
> The new conditional test needs to be inverted.  Try this instead:
>
> Index: powerpc/aim/mmu_oea64.c
> ===================================================================
> --- powerpc/aim/mmu_oea64.c     (revision 269127)
> +++ powerpc/aim/mmu_oea64.c     (working copy)
> @@ -2274,7 +2274,8 @@ moea64_pvo_enter(mmu_t mmu, pmap_t pm, uma_zone_t
>                  if (pvo->pvo_pmap == pm && PVO_VADDR(pvo) == va) {
>                          if ((pvo->pvo_pte.lpte.pte_lo & LPTE_RPGN) == pa &&
>                              (pvo->pvo_pte.lpte.pte_lo & (LPTE_NOEXEC |
> LPTE_PP))
> -                           == (pte_lo & (LPTE_NOEXEC | LPTE_PP))) {
> +                           == (pte_lo & (LPTE_NOEXEC | LPTE_PP)) &&
> +                           ((pvo->pvo_vaddr ^ flags) & PVO_WIRED) == 0) {
>                                  if (!(pvo->pvo_pte.lpte.pte_hi &
> LPTE_VALID)) {
>                                          /* Re-insert if spilled */
>                                          i = MOEA64_PTE_INSERT(mmu, ptegidx,
>


The panic stays, but the message is different:

panic: moea64_pvo_to_pte: pvo 0x10147ea0 has invalid pte 0xb341180 in 
moea64_pteg_table but valid in pvo.

Andreas




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