On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 06:09:51PM +0800, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> Hi Herert
> Thanks for yout reply .
> Will Deacon [will.deacon@arm.com] has give
> A patch to me for test .
I'm glad you got a patch :)
> You can see it here :
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/will/linux.git/commit/?h=misc-patches
Still no relation to Linux-VServer AFAICT
So IMHO wrong mailing list.
best,
Herbert
> Thanks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert Poetzl [mailto:herbert@13thfloor.at]
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 8:40 AM
> To: Wang, Yalin
> Cc: 'vserver@list.linux-vserver.org'
> Subject: Re: [vserver] A bug about system call on ARM
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 01:28:42PM +0800, Wang, Yalin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am a new comer to this mailing list , I am happy to join this
>> community .
>> I have a bug reported from our android phones which is caused by the
>> system call .
>> It seems like kernel bugs from my view .
> Hmm, how is that Linux-VServer related?
> What kernel and Linux-VServer patch do you use?
> Thanks,
> Herbert
>> Crash in file arch\arm\kernel\ entry-common.S
>> #if defined(CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT)
>> /*
>> * If we have CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT then we need to look at the swi
>> * value to determine if it is an EABI or an old ABI call.
>> */
>> #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_THUMB
>> tst r8, #PSR_T_BIT
>> movne r10, #0 @ no thumb OABI emulation
>> ldreq r10, [lr, #-4] @ get SWI instruction // crash at this instruction, when get SWI instruction
>> #else
>> ldr r10, [lr, #-4] @ get SWI instruction
>> A710( and ip, r10, #0x0f000000 @ check for SWI )
>> A710( teq ip, #0x0f000000 )
>> A710( bne .Larm710bug )
>> #endif
>> #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
>> rev r10, r10 @ little endian instruction
>> #endif
>> Then reason why it will crash when get SWI instruction is maybe This
>> page is clear to aged by kernel, But this MMU fault happpened in
>> kernel, So the kernel do_page_fault function will not clear this page
>> to young, So that will crash .
>> It should poll this page to make it present or the fault should be
>> handled by fixup section , Anyway, this place should not crash by kernel .
>> The kernel version I used is 3.4.0
>> I have add the kernel log and the call stack recoverd by trace32 tools
>> Pls have a look at it .
>> Thanks .
>> Yalin.Wang
>> Software Engineer
>> OS Kernel&Graphics
>> Sony Mobile Communications
>> Tel: +86 10 5966 9819
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>> [cid:image001.jpg@01CE5C5F.6BD2AAE0]
> Content-Description: stack.txt
>> crash_notes_save_this_cpu(type = CRASH_NOTE_CRASHING, cpu = 1)
>> update_crash_notes(?, ?, ?)
>> notifier_call_chain(?, val = 0, v = 0xC0ECBE9C, nr_to_call = 5, nr_calls = 0x0)
>> __atomic_notifier_call_chain(nh = 0xC0ECC29C, val = 0, v = 0xC0ECBE9C, nr_to_call = -1, nr_calls = 0x0)
>> atomic_notifier_call_chain(?, ?, ?)
>> panic(fmt = 0xC098BC02)
>> die(?, regs = 0xE0601F68, err = 23)
>> __do_kernel_fault.part.8(mm = 0xC73E7DC0, addr = 1075872796, fsr = 23, regs = 0xE0601F68)
>> do_page_fault(addr = 3342761408, fsr = 23, regs = 0x4020841C)
>> do_DataAbort(addr = 1075872796, fsr = 23, regs = 0xE0601F68)
>> __dabt_svc(asm)
>> exception
>> vector_swi(asm)
>> ret_fast_syscall(asm)
>> exception
>> NUR:0xFFFF:0x40208420(asm)
>> end of frame
Received on Sat Jun 1 12:01:01 2013