Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] xen: fix HVM kexec kernel panic

[Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>]

Hi Boris,

On 2/25/22 2:39 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> 
> On 2/24/22 4:50 PM, Dongli Zhang wrote:
>> This is the v3 of the patch to fix xen kexec kernel panic issue when the
>> kexec is triggered on VCPU >= 32.
>>
>> PANIC: early exception 0x0e IP 10:ffffffffa96679b6 error 0 cr2 0x20
>> [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted
>> 5.17.0-rc4xen-00054-gf71077a4d84b-dirty #1
>> [    0.000000] Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.4.4OVM 12/15/2020
>> [    0.000000] RIP: 0010:pvclock_clocksource_read+0x6/0xb0
>> ... ...
>> [    0.000000] RSP: 0000:ffffffffaae03e10 EFLAGS: 00010082 ORIG_RAX:
>> 0000000000000000
>> [    0.000000] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000010000 RCX: 0000000000000002
>> [    0.000000] RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: ffffffffaac37515 RDI: 0000000000000020
>> [    0.000000] RBP: 0000000000011000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
>> [    0.000000] R10: ffffffffaae03df8 R11: ffffffffaae03c68 R12: 0000000040000004
>> [    0.000000] R13: ffffffffaae03e50 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
>> [    0.000000] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffffab588000(0000)
>> knlGS:0000000000000000
>> [    0.000000] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>> [    0.000000] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 00000000ea410000 CR4: 00000000000406a0
>> [    0.000000] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>> [    0.000000] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>> [    0.000000] Call Trace:
>> [    0.000000]  <TASK>
>> [    0.000000]  ? xen_clocksource_read+0x24/0x40
> 
> 
> This is done to set xen_sched_clock_offset which I think will not be used for a
> while, until sched_clock is called (and the other two uses are for suspend/resume)
> 
> 
> Can we simply defer 'xen_sched_clock_offset = xen_clocksource_read();' until
> after all vcpu areas are properly set? Or are there other uses of
> xen_clocksource_read() before ?
> 

I have tested that below patch will panic kdump kernel.

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/smp_hvm.c b/arch/x86/xen/smp_hvm.c
index 6ff3c887e0b9..6a0c99941ae1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/smp_hvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp_hvm.c
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ static void __init xen_hvm_smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void)
         */
        xen_vcpu_setup(0);

+       xen_init_sched_clock_offset();
+
        /*
         * The alternative logic (which patches the unlock/lock) runs before
         * the smp bootup up code is activated. Hence we need to set this up
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/time.c b/arch/x86/xen/time.c
index d9c945ee1100..8a2eafa0c215 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/time.c
@@ -520,9 +520,14 @@ static void __init xen_time_init(void)
                pvclock_gtod_register_notifier(&xen_pvclock_gtod_notifier);
 }

-static void __init xen_init_time_common(void)
+void xen_init_sched_clock_offset(void)
 {
        xen_sched_clock_offset = xen_clocksource_read();
+}
+
+static void __init xen_init_time_common(void)
+{
+       xen_sched_clock_offset = 0;
        static_call_update(pv_steal_clock, xen_steal_clock);
        paravirt_set_sched_clock(xen_sched_clock);

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h b/arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h
index fd0fec6e92f4..9f7656214dfb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ void xen_teardown_timer(int cpu);
 void xen_setup_cpu_clockevents(void);
 void xen_save_time_memory_area(void);
 void xen_restore_time_memory_area(void);
+void xen_init_sched_clock_offset(void);
 void xen_init_time_ops(void);
 void xen_hvm_init_time_ops(void);



Unfortunately, I am not able to obtain the panic callstack from kdump time this
time. I have only below.

PANIC: early exception 0x0e IP 10:ffffffffa6c679b6 error 0 cr2 0x20
PANIC: early exception 0x0e IP 10:ffffffffa6c679b6 error 0 cr2 0x20



The sched_clock() can be used very early since commit 857baa87b642
("sched/clock: Enable sched clock early"). Any printk should use sched_clock()
to obtain the timestamp.

vprintk_store()
-> local_clock()
   -> sched_clock()
      -> paravirt_sched_clock()
         -> xen_sched_clock()
            -> xen_clocksource_read()


AFAIR, we started to encounter the issue since commit 857baa87b642
("sched/clock: Enable sched clock early"). kdump used to work well before that
commit.

Thank you very much!

Dongli Zhang