Dear Zhouyi,
Thank you for still looking into this. Am 10.03.22 um 03:37 schrieb Zhouyi Zhou:
I try to reproduce the bug in ppc64 VM in Oregon State University using the vmlinux extracted from https://owww.molgen.mpg.de/~pmenzel/rcutorture-2022.02.01-21.52.37-torture-locktorture-kasan-lock01.tar.xz the ppc64 VM in which I run the qemu without hardware acceleration is: Linux version 5.4.0-100-generic (buildd@bos02-ppc64el-021) (gcc version 9.3.0 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)) #113-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 3 18:43:11 UTC 2022 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-100.113-generic 5.4.166) The qemu command I use to test: cd /tmp/dev/shm/linux/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/res/2022.02.01-21.52.37-torture/results-locktorture-kasan/LOCK01$ $qemu-system-ppc64 -nographic -smp cores=2,threads=1 -net none -M pseries -nodefaults -device spapr-vscsi -serial file:/tmp/console.log -m 512 -kernel ./vmlinux -append "debug_boot_weak_hash panic=-1 console=ttyS0 rcutorture.onoff_interval=200 rcutorture.onoff_holdoff=30 rcutree.gp_preinit_delay=12 rcutree.gp_init_delay=3 rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay=3 rcutree.kthread_prio=2 threadirqs tree.use_softirq=0 rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs=4 rcutorture.stat_interval=15 rcutorture.shutdown_secs=1800 rcutorture.test_no_idle_hz=1 rcutorture.verbose=1" The console.log is uploaded to: http://154.223.142.244/logs/20220310/console.paul.log The log tells us it is illegal instruction that causes the trouble: [ 4.246387][ T1] init[1]: illegal instruction (4) at 1002c308 nip 1002c308 lr 10001684 code 1 in init[10000000+d0000] [ 4.251400][ T1] init[1]: code: f90d88c0 f92a0008 f9480008 7c2004ac 2c2d0000 f9490000 386d88d0 380000e8 [ 4.253416][ T1] init[1]: code: 41820098 e92d8f98 75290010 4182008c <44000001> 2c2d0000 60000000 8902f438 Meanwhile, the vmlinux compiled by myself runs smoothly.
How did you build it? Using GCC or clang? I forgot, if the problem was only reproducible if the host Linux kernel was built with clang or the VM kernel.
Then I modify mkinitrd.sh to let it panic manually: http://154.223.142.244/logs/20220310/mkinitrd.sh
I only see the change: - + int *ptr = 0; + *ptr = 0;
The log tells us it is a segfault (instead of a illegal instruction): http://154.223.142.244/logs/20220310/console.zhouyi.log Then I use gdb to debug the init in host: ubuntu@zhouzhouyi-1:~/newkernel/linux-next$ gdb tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/initrd/init (gdb) run Starting program: /home/ubuntu/newkernel/linux-next/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/initrd/init Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0000000010000b2c in ?? () (gdb) x/10i $pc => 0x10000b2c: stw r9,0(r9) 0x10000b30: trap 0x10000b34: .long 0x0 0x10000b38: .long 0x0 0x10000b3c: .long 0x0 0x10000b40: lis r2,4110 0x10000b44: addi r2,r2,31488 0x10000b48: mr r9,r1 0x10000b4c: rldicr r1,r1,0,59 0x10000b50: li r0,0 (gdb) p $r9 $1 = 0 (gdb) x/30x $pc - 0x30 0x10000afc: 0x38840040 0x387f0040 0xf8010040 0x48026919 0x10000b0c: 0x60000000 0xe8010040 0x7c0803a6 0x4bffff24 0x10000b1c: 0x00000000 0x01000000 0x00000180 0x39200000 0x10000b2c: 0x91290000 0x7fe00008 0x00000000 0x00000000 which matches the hex content of http://154.223.142.244/logs/20220310/console.zhouyi.log: [ 5.077431][ T1] init[1]: segfault (11) at 0 nip 10000b2c lr 10001024 code 1 in init[10000000+d0000] [ 5.087167][ T1] init[1]: code: 38840040 387f0040 f8010040 48026919 60000000 e8010040 7c0803a6 4bffff24 [ 5.093987][ T1] init[1]: code: 00000000 01000000 00000180 39200000 <91290000> 7fe00008 00000000 00000000 Conclusions: there might be something wrong when packing the init into vmlinux in your environment. I will continue to do research on this interesting problem with you.
As written I think it’s a problem with LLVM/clang. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to retest before next week.
Kind regards, Paul