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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2017 09:07:27 -0800
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r326218 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <62864c22-e458-2f13-2b33-9dc075ed2ef2@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <59383A7D-FC99-4748-9561-53D968C4B150@fubar.geek.nz>
References:  <201711252341.vAPNf5Qx001464@repo.freebsd.org> <59383A7D-FC99-4748-9561-53D968C4B150@fubar.geek.nz>

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On 11/26/17 01:46, Andrew Turner wrote:
> On 25 Nov 2017, at 23:41, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: nwhitehorn
>> Date: Sat Nov 25 23:41:05 2017
>> New Revision: 326218
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/326218
>>
>> Log:
>>   Remove some, but not all, assumptions that the BSP is CPU 0 and that CPUs
>>   are numbered densely from there to n_cpus.
>>
>>   MFC after:	1 month
>>
>> Modified:
>>   head/sys/kern/kern_clock.c
>>   head/sys/kern/kern_clocksource.c
>>   head/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c
>>   head/sys/kern/kern_timeout.c
>>   head/sys/kern/sched_ule.c
>>   head/sys/kern/subr_pcpu.c
>>
> ...
>> Modified: head/sys/kern/subr_pcpu.c
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- head/sys/kern/subr_pcpu.c	Sat Nov 25 23:23:24 2017	(r326217)
>> +++ head/sys/kern/subr_pcpu.c	Sat Nov 25 23:41:05 2017	(r326218)
>> @@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ pcpu_destroy(struct pcpu *pcpu)
>> struct pcpu *
>> pcpu_find(u_int cpuid)
>> {
>> +	KASSERT(cpuid_to_pcpu[cpuid] != NULL,
>> +	    ("Getting uninitialized PCPU %d", cpuid));
>>
>> 	return (cpuid_to_pcpu[cpuid]);
>> }
> This breaks on one arm64 simulator I have where the device tree lists 8 cpus, but only 2 are enabled in the simulation. The ofw_cpu device nodes for these are cpu0 and cpu4 so the call to cpu_find in ofw_cpu_attach will hit this KASSERT when the CPU has not been enabled.
>
> Andrew
>
> cpu0: <Open Firmware CPU> on cpulist0
> cpu1: <Open Firmware CPU> on cpulist0
> panic: Getting uninitialized PCPU 1
> cpuid = 0
> time = 1
> KDB: stack backtrace:
> db_trace_self() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x28
> 	 pc = 0xffff0000005f03e8  lr = 0xffff000000087048
> 	 sp = 0xffff0000000105a0  fp = 0xffff0000000107b0

That's unfortunate. Removing the new KASSERT is probably not the right 
option, since all it is doing is indicating a pre-existing bug. 
Specifically, it is preventing ofw_cpu from using a NULL pointer for CPU 
4, which I suppose it was previously happily doing (it would only get 
dereferenced if you had cpufreq support, hence no previous panic).

A super quick-and-dirty fix would be to be fail attach on 
CPU_ABSENT(device_get_unit(dev)), which restores the previous buggy 
behavior but without the panic. If you do not actually use ofw_cpu for 
anything, we could also just disable it temporarily on your platform 
(it's off for some PPC systems, you will note, for similar reasons).

A real fix is somewhat complex, since the driver relies on being able to 
get a mapping from platform-specific numbers in the device tree to an 
entry in pcpu, which intrinsically relies on reverse-engineering the 
platform's mapping between some kind of hardware CPU ID and the kernel 
CPU numbering. I can't think of a way to do that internally. We could 
make some kind of platform macro, but the whole concept is even somewhat 
dubious at the moment since a number of IBM systems with SMT don't even 
have a 1:1 relationship between CPUs as FreeBSD defines them and device 
tree nodes, so it's possible we need a serious rearchitecture of the driver.

Please let me know how I can help get this fixed.
-Nathan




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