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Hash faults are not resoved in NMI context, instead causing the access to fail. This is done because perf interrupts can get backtraces including walking the user stack, and taking a hash fault on those could deadlock on the HPTE lock if the perf interrupt hits while the same HPTE lock is being held by the hash fault code. The user-access for the stack walking will notice the access failed and deal with that in the perf code. The reason to allow perf interrupts in is to better profile hash faults. The problem with this is any hash fault on a kernel access that happens in NMI context will crash, because kernel accesses must not fail. Hard lockups, system reset, machine checks that access vmalloc space including modules and including stack backtracing and symbol lookup in modules, per-cpu data, etc could all run into this problem. Fix this by disallowing perf interrupts in the hash fault code (the direct hash fault is covered by MSR[EE]=0 so the PMI disable just needs to extend to the preload case). This simplifies the tricky logic in hash faults and perf, at the cost of reduced profiling of hash faults. perf can still latch addresses when interrupts are disabled, it just won't get the stack trace at that point, so it would still find hot spots, just sometimes with confusing stack chains. An alternative could be to allow perf interrupts here but always do the slowpath stack walk if we are in nmi context, but that slows down all perf interrupt stack walking on hash though and it does not remove as much tricky code. Reported-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220204035348.545435-1-npiggin@gmail.com |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.