Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC III

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi,

On Sun, 2025-09-07 at 23:31 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 2025-09-07 at 20:33 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > I assume that cheetah_patch_cachetlbops has to be invoked on UltraSPARC III
> > since there is other code depending on it. On the other hand, the TLB code
> > on UltraSPARC III was heavily overhauled in 2016 [1] which was also followed
> > by a bug fix [2].
> > 
> > Chances are there are still bugs in the code introduced in [1].
> > 
> > > [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a74ad5e660a9ee1d071665e7e8ad822784a2dc7f
> > > [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d3c976c14ad8af421134c428b0a89ff8dd3bd8f8
> 
> I have reverted both commits. The machine boots until it tries to start
> systemd when it locks up. So, I guess if there is a bug in the TLB code
> it needs to be diagnosed differently.

Another test with a kernel source rebased to 6.17-rc5+, with the following patch applied
by Anthony Yznaga and CONFIG_SMP disabled:

diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/ultra.S b/arch/sparc/mm/ultra.S
index 70e658d107e0..b323db303de1 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/mm/ultra.S
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/ultra.S
@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ __cheetah_flush_tlb_kernel_range:	/* 31 insns */
  	membar		#Sync
  	stxa		%g0, [%o4] ASI_IMMU_DEMAP
  	membar		#Sync
+	flush
  	retl
  	 nop
  	nop
@@ -355,7 +356,6 @@ __cheetah_flush_tlb_kernel_range:	/* 31 insns */
  	nop
  	nop
  	nop
-	nop

  #ifdef DCACHE_ALIASING_POSSIBLE
  __cheetah_flush_dcache_page: /* 11 insns */

Still crashes:

[  139.236744] tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = 00000000000000ab
[  139.310042] tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd = fff0000007db8000
[  139.378747]               \|/ ____ \|/
[  139.378747]               "@'/ .. \`@"
[  139.378747]               /_| \__/ |_\
[  139.378747]                  \__U_/
[  139.572059] systemd(1): Oops [#1]
[  139.615613] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 6.17.0-rc5+ #19 NONE 
[  139.712832] TSTATE: 0000004411001602 TPC: 00000000005e29e4 TNPC: 00000000005e29e8 Y: 00000000    Not tainted
[  139.842076] TPC: <bpf_patch_insn_data+0x204/0x2e0>
[  139.905077] g0: ffffffffffffffff g1: 0000000000000000 g2: 0000000000000065 g3: fff0000009618b28
[  140.019460] g4: fff00000001f9500 g5: 0000000000657300 g6: fff000000022c000 g7: 0000000000000001
[  140.133837] o0: 0000000100058000 o1: 0000000000000000 o2: 0000000000000001 o3: 0000000000000002
[  140.248208] o4: fff00000045ec900 o5: 0000000000000002 sp: fff000000022f031 ret_pc: 00000000005e2998
[  140.367158] RPC: <bpf_patch_insn_data+0x1b8/0x2e0>
[  140.430057] l0: fff0000009618000 l1: 0000000100046048 l2: 0000000000000001 l3: 0000000100058000
[  140.544437] l4: 0000000100046068 l5: 0000000000000005 l6: 0000000000000000 l7: fff000000961e128
[  140.658810] i0: 0000000100046000 i1: 0000000000000004 i2: 0000000000000005 i3: 0000000000000002
[  140.773189] i4: 0000000100066000 i5: fff0000009618ae8 i6: fff000000022f0e1 i7: 0000000000607a08
[  140.887561] I7: <bpf_check+0x1988/0x34a0>
[  140.940171] Call Trace:
[  140.972191] [<0000000000607a08>] bpf_check+0x1988/0x34a0
[  141.041963] [<00000000005d862c>] bpf_prog_load+0x8ec/0xc80
[  141.114021] [<00000000005d9be4>] __sys_bpf+0x724/0x28a0
[  141.182646] [<00000000005dc338>] sys_bpf+0x18/0x60
[  141.245551] [<0000000000406174>] linux_sparc_syscall+0x34/0x44
[  141.322185] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[  141.391952] Caller[0000000000607a08]: bpf_check+0x1988/0x34a0
[  141.467440] Caller[00000000005d862c]: bpf_prog_load+0x8ec/0xc80
[  141.545212] Caller[00000000005d9be4]: __sys_bpf+0x724/0x28a0
[  141.619558] Caller[00000000005dc338]: sys_bpf+0x18/0x60
[  141.688179] Caller[0000000000406174]: linux_sparc_syscall+0x34/0x44
[  141.770535] Caller[fff000010089b80c]: 0xfff000010089b80c
[  141.840301] Instruction DUMP:
[  141.840305]  326ffffa 
[  141.879185]  c4004000 
[  141.910065]  c25e2038 
[  141.940945] <c4006108>
[  141.971827]  80a0a000 
[  142.002709]  04400014 
[  142.033589]  c25860f0 
[  142.064474]  8400bfff 
[  142.095354]  8e00606c 
[  142.126234] 
[  142.176560] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009
[  142.277218] Press Stop-A (L1-A) from sun keyboard or send break
[  142.277218] twice on console to return to the boot prom
[  142.423608] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009 ]---

Adrian

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