Hi Caleb, Thanks for this interesting feedback. I saw these patches were already merged since you sent this but I added a few thoughts below anyway.
On Friday, April 12th, 2024 at 11:50 AM, Caleb Connolly <caleb.conno...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hi Phaedrus, > > On 07/04/2024 03:47, mwle...@mailtundra.com wrote: > > > Without this patch, when trying to boot zfs using U-Boot on a Jetson TX2 > > NX (which is aarch64), I get a CPU reset error like so: > > > > "Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x96000021 > > elr: 00000000800c9000 lr : 00000000800c8ffc (reloc) > > elr: 00000000fff77000 lr : 00000000fff76ffc > > x0 : 00000000ffb40f04 x1 : 0000000000000000 > > x2 : 000000000000000a x3 : 0000000003100000 > > x4 : 0000000003100000 x5 : 0000000000000034 > > x6 : 00000000fff9cc6e x7 : 000000000000000f > > x8 : 00000000ff7f84a0 x9 : 0000000000000008 > > x10: 00000000ffb40f04 x11: 0000000000000006 > > x12: 000000000001869f x13: 0000000000000001 > > x14: 00000000ff7f84bc x15: 0000000000000010 > > x16: 0000000000002080 x17: 00000000001fffff > > x18: 00000000ff7fbdd8 x19: 00000000ffb405f8 > > x20: 00000000ffb40dd0 x21: 00000000fffabe5e > > x22: 000000ea77940000 x23: 00000000ffb42090 > > x24: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 > > x26: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000 > > x28: 0000000000bab10c x29: 00000000ff7f85f0 > > > > Code: d00001a0 9103a000 94006ac6 f9401ba0 (f9400000) > > Resetting CPU ... > > > > This happens when be64_to_cpu() is called on a value that exists at a > > memory address that's 4 byte aligned but not 8 byte aligned (e.g. an > > address ending in 04). The call stack where that happens is: > > check_pool_label() -> > > zfs_nvlist_lookup_uint64(vdevnvlist, ZPOOL_CONFIG_ASHIFT,...) -> > > be64_to_cpu() > > > This is very odd, aarch64 doesn't generally have these restrictions. I > got a bit nerdsniped when I saw this so I did some digging and figured this: > > 1. Your abort exception doesn't include the FAR_ELx register (which > should contain the address that was being accessed when the abort > occured). This means your board is running in EL3. > 2. It turns out there is an "A" flag in the SCTLR_ELx register, when set > this flag causes a fault when trying to load from an address that isn't > aligned to the size of the data element (see "A, bit" on > https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0595/2021-06/AArch64-Registers/SCTLR-EL3--System-Control-Register--EL3- > > I'm not sure who's in the "wrong" here, maybe the driver should avoid > unaligned accesses? But then again, I don't think you should be running > a ZFS driver in EL3. > > I'm not familiar with the Jetson Nano, but maybe there's a documented > way to run U-Boot so that it isn't executing in EL3? Or if not you could > also try unsetting the A flag. I may look into this if I get a chance. However if I write some assembly code to change the execution level or unset the A flag, I worry that the code would work fine on the hardware I have (Jetson TX2 NX) but behave differently on another platform. And I don't think I can easily set up testing environments with u-boot + zfs on different platforms to find out. > > If this really is something to fix in the driver, I don't think > hotpatching every unaligned access with a malloc() is the right solution. > I'm certainly open to other ideas. The difficulty is the data structure we're parsing in this file is read from disk and it's only 4-byte aligned. > > Signed-off-by: Phaedrus Leeds mwle...@mailtundra.com > > Tested-by: Phaedrus Leeds mwle...@mailtundra.com > > > regarding your question about re-sending to remove these tags, I'd say > probably yes, and especially if you're going to send a new revision anyway. > > fwiw you seem to have gotten pretty much everything else about the patch > submission process spot on :) > > Kind regards, > > > --- > > fs/zfs/zfs.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/fs/zfs/zfs.c b/fs/zfs/zfs.c > > index 61d58fce68..9a50deac18 100644 > > --- a/fs/zfs/zfs.c > > +++ b/fs/zfs/zfs.c > > @@ -1552,35 +1552,53 @@ nvlist_find_value(char *nvlist, char *name, int > > valtype, char **val, > > if (nelm_out) > > *nelm_out = nelm; > > return 1; > > } > > > > nvlist += encode_size; /* goto the next nvpair */ > > } > > return 0; > > } > > > > +int is_word_aligned_ptr(void *ptr) { > > + return ((uintptr_t)ptr & (sizeof(void *) - 1)) == 0; > > +} > > + > > int > > zfs_nvlist_lookup_uint64(char *nvlist, char *name, uint64_t *out) > > { > > char *nvpair; > > size_t size; > > int found; > > > > found = nvlist_find_value(nvlist, name, DATA_TYPE_UINT64, &nvpair, &size, > > 0); > > if (!found) > > return 0; > > if (size < sizeof(uint64_t)) { > > printf("invalid uint64\n"); > > return ZFS_ERR_BAD_FS; > > } > > > > + /* On arm64, calling be64_to_cpu() on a value stored at a memory address > > + * that's not 8-byte aligned causes the CPU to reset. Avoid that by > > copying the > > + * value somewhere else if needed. > > + */ > > + if (!is_word_aligned_ptr((void *)nvpair)) { > > + uint64_t *alignedptr = malloc(sizeof(uint64_t)); > > + if (!alignedptr) > > + return 0; > > + memcpy(alignedptr, nvpair, sizeof(uint64_t)); > > + *out = be64_to_cpu(*alignedptr); > > + free(alignedptr); > > + return 1; > > + } > > + > > out = be64_to_cpu((uint64_t *) nvpair); > > return 1; > > } > > > > char * > > zfs_nvlist_lookup_string(char *nvlist, char *name) > > { > > char *nvpair; > > char *ret; > > size_t slen; > > > -- > // Caleb (they/them)
