From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>, Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>,
zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, Jim Perrin <jperrin@centos.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] arm64: failed when run the command: timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Shanghai
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 01:23:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <569C9306.7090904@jonmasters.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160113110900.GA23370@leverpostej>
Hi Mark, Xishi,
On 1/13/16, 5:09 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 09:16:43AM +0800, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>> On 2016/1/12 18:59, Steve Capper wrote:
>>
>>> On 12 January 2016 at 03:32, Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2016/1/12 10:47, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Failed when run the command: timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Shanghai
>>>>> But CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=3 is OK, and CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=4 is failed.
>>>>> The kernel is v4.1, and this command need the lib polikit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this the bug of kernel?
As noted by others, this is a problem with interpretation by certain
userspace (probably not restricted to mozjs) applications of their
ability to use the high order bits of a VA. It's actually been flagged a
few times by others in both RHEL(SA) and Fedora as well, but I've
pointed out (at least in the former) that we're not building with a
48-bit VA currently so it won't be as visible for the moment. That means
if you're consuming a Cent7 kernel from Jim/etc. it'll probably not fall
over out of the box (copying him so he knows about this - it's been
coming up a bit over the past few days in some other conversation).
This definitely needs fixing in upstream polkit builds, and a general
education exercise needs to be initiated so that people don't get this
wrong in future (but it's guaranteed that they will). FWIW my personal
opinion is that tagged pointers are dangerous and should never have
happened (because you can't trust people/there will be code out there
for years that will have broken assumptions and never be fixed).
Jon.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-18 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-12 2:47 [RFC] arm64: failed when run the command: timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Shanghai Xishi Qiu
2016-01-12 3:32 ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-12 10:59 ` Steve Capper
2016-01-13 1:16 ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-13 11:09 ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-13 17:00 ` Christopher Covington
2016-01-13 18:47 ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-14 1:48 ` Xishi Qiu
2016-01-14 10:34 ` Mark Rutland
2016-01-18 7:23 ` Jon Masters [this message]
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