Re: [PATCH v6 14/14] riscv: Make mmap allocation top-down by default

From: Atish Patra
Date: Mon Oct 07 2019 - 20:46:22 EST


On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 05:11 -0400, Alex Ghiti wrote:
> On 10/4/19 10:12 PM, Atish Patra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 02:17 -0400, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> > > In order to avoid wasting user address space by using bottom-up
> > > mmap
> > > allocation scheme, prefer top-down scheme when possible.
> > >
> > > Before:
> > > root@qemuriscv64:~# cat /proc/self/maps
> > > 00010000-00016000 r-xp 00000000 fe:00
> > > 6389 /bin/cat.coreutils
> > > 00016000-00017000 r--p 00005000 fe:00
> > > 6389 /bin/cat.coreutils
> > > 00017000-00018000 rw-p 00006000 fe:00
> > > 6389 /bin/cat.coreutils
> > > 00018000-00039000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
> > > 1555556000-155556d000 r-xp 00000000 fe:00 7193 /lib/ld-2.28.so
> > > 155556d000-155556e000 r--p 00016000 fe:00 7193 /lib/ld-2.28.so
> > > 155556e000-155556f000 rw-p 00017000 fe:00 7193 /lib/ld-2.28.so
> > > 155556f000-1555570000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> > > 1555570000-1555572000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
> > > 1555574000-1555576000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> > > 1555576000-1555674000 r-xp 00000000 fe:00 7187 /lib/libc-
> > > 2.28.so
> > > 1555674000-1555678000 r--p 000fd000 fe:00 7187 /lib/libc-
> > > 2.28.so
> > > 1555678000-155567a000 rw-p 00101000 fe:00 7187 /lib/libc-
> > > 2.28.so
> > > 155567a000-15556a0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> > > 3fffb90000-3fffbb1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
> > >
> > > After:
> > > root@qemuriscv64:~# cat /proc/self/maps
> > > 00010000-00016000 r-xp 00000000 fe:00
> > > 6389 /bin/cat.coreutils
> > > 00016000-00017000 r--p 00005000 fe:00
> > > 6389 /bin/cat.coreutils
> > > 00017000-00018000 rw-p 00006000 fe:00
> > > 6389 /bin/cat.coreutils
> > > 2de81000-2dea2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
> > > 3ff7eb6000-3ff7ed8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> > > 3ff7ed8000-3ff7fd6000 r-xp 00000000 fe:00 7187 /lib/libc-
> > > 2.28.so
> > > 3ff7fd6000-3ff7fda000 r--p 000fd000 fe:00 7187 /lib/libc-
> > > 2.28.so
> > > 3ff7fda000-3ff7fdc000 rw-p 00101000 fe:00 7187 /lib/libc-
> > > 2.28.so
> > > 3ff7fdc000-3ff7fe2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> > > 3ff7fe4000-3ff7fe6000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
> > > 3ff7fe6000-3ff7ffd000 r-xp 00000000 fe:00 7193 /lib/ld-2.28.so
> > > 3ff7ffd000-3ff7ffe000 r--p 00016000 fe:00 7193 /lib/ld-2.28.so
> > > 3ff7ffe000-3ff7fff000 rw-p 00017000 fe:00 7193 /lib/ld-2.28.so
> > > 3ff7fff000-3ff8000000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
> > > 3fff888000-3fff8a9000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Acked-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > arch/riscv/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > > index 59a4727ecd6c..87dc5370becb 100644
> > > --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> > > @@ -54,6 +54,18 @@ config RISCV
> > > select EDAC_SUPPORT
> > > select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
> > > select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if 64BIT
> > > + select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT if MMU
> > > + select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
> > > +
> > > +config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
> > > + default 18 if 6legacy_va_layout4BIT
> > > + default 8
> > > +
> > > +# max bits determined by the following formula:
> > > +# VA_BITS - PAGE_SHIFT - 3
> > > +config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
> > > + default 24 if 64BIT # SV39 based
> > > + default 17
> > >
> > > config MMU
> > > def_bool y
> > With this patch, I am not able to boot a Fedora Linux(a Gnome
> > desktop
> > image) on RISC-V hardware (Unleashed + Microsemi Expansion board).
> > The
> > booting gets stuck right after systemd starts.
> >
> > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/TOrUMqqKH-pGFX7CnfajDg
> >
> > Reverting just this patch allow to boot Fedora successfully on
> > specific
> > RISC-V hardware. I have not root caused the issue but it looks like
> > it
> > might have messed userpsace mapping.
>
> It might have messed userspace mapping but not enough to make
> userspace
> completely broken
> as systemd does some things. I would try to boot in legacy layout:
> if
> you can try to set sysctl legacy_va_layout
> at boottime, it will map userspace as it was before (bottom-up). If
> that
> does not work, the problem could
> be the randomization that is activated by default now.

Randomization may not be the issue. I just removed
ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT from the config and that seems to
work. Here is the bottom-up layout with randomization on.

[root@fedora-riscv ~]# cat /proc/self/maps
1555556000-1555570000 r-xp 00000000 103:01
280098 /usr/lib64/ld-2.28.so
1555570000-1555571000 r--p 00019000 103:01
280098 /usr/lib64/ld-2.28.so
1555571000-1555572000 rw-p 0001a000 103:01
280098 /usr/lib64/ld-2.28.so
1555572000-1555573000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
1555573000-1555575000 r-xp 00000000 00:00
0 [vdso]
1555575000-1555576000 r--p 00000000 103:01
50936 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICAT
ION
1555576000-155557d000 r--s 00000000 103:01
280826 /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
155557d000-155557e000 r--p 00000000 103:01
50937 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MEASUREMENT
155557e000-155557f000 r--p 00000000 103:01
50939 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_TELEPHONE
155557f000-1555580000 r--p 00000000 103:01
3706 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_ADDRESS
1555580000-1555581000 r--p 00000000 103:01
50944 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_NAME
1555581000-1555582000 r--p 00000000 103:01
3775 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_PAPER
1555582000-1555583000 r--p 00000000 103:01
3758 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/SY
S_LC_MESSAGES
1555583000-1555584000 r--p 00000000 103:01
50938 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MONETARY
1555584000-1555585000 r--p 00000000 103:01
50940 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_TIME
1555585000-1555586000 r--p 00000000 103:01
50945 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_NUMERIC
1555590000-1555592000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
1555592000-15556b1000 r-xp 00000000 103:01
280105 /usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so
15556b1000-15556b5000 r--p 0011e000 103:01
280105 /usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so
15556b5000-15556b7000 rw-p 00122000 103:01
280105 /usr/lib64/libc-2.28.so
15556b7000-15556bb000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
15556bb000-1555933000 r--p 00000000 103:01
3755 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_COLLATE
1555933000-1555986000 r--p 00000000 103:01
50942 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_CTYPE
1555986000-15559a8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
2aaaaaa000-2aaaab1000 r-xp 00000000 103:01
283975 /usr/bin/cat
2aaaab1000-2aaaab2000 r--p 00006000 103:01
283975 /usr/bin/cat
2aaaab2000-2aaaab3000 rw-p 00007000 103:01
283975 /usr/bin/cat
2aaaab3000-2aaaad4000 rw-p 00000000 00:00
0 [heap]
3fffc97000-3fffcb8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00
0 [stack]


> Anyway, it's weird since userspace should not depend on how the
> mapping is.
>
> If you can identify the program that stalls, that would be fantastic
> :)
>

It stucks while booting. So I am not sure how to figure out which
program stalls. It is difficult to figure out from boot log as it
stucks at different places but soon after systemd starts.

> As the code is common to mips and arm now and I did not hear from
> them,
> I imagine the problem comes
> from us.
>
> Alex

--
Regards,
Atish