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authorMark Brown2024-02-13 18:24:38 +0000
committerWill Deacon2024-02-15 11:48:00 +0000
commit2813926261e436d33bc74486b51cce60b76edf78 (patch)
treea07c598c8cbf5d8f5d4f053423dce6401c68db57 /arch
parentfb091ff394792c018527b3211bbdfae93ea4ac02 (diff)
arm64/sve: Lower the maximum allocation for the SVE ptrace regset
Doug Anderson observed that ChromeOS crashes are being reported which include failing allocations of order 7 during core dumps due to ptrace allocating storage for regsets: chrome: page allocation failure: order:7, mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=urgent,mems_allowed=0 ... regset_get_alloc+0x1c/0x28 elf_core_dump+0x3d8/0xd8c do_coredump+0xeb8/0x1378 with further investigation showing that this is: [ 66.957385] DOUG: Allocating 279584 bytes which is the maximum size of the SVE regset. As Doug observes it is not entirely surprising that such a large allocation of contiguous memory might fail on a long running system. The SVE regset is currently sized to hold SVE registers with a VQ of SVE_VQ_MAX which is 512, substantially more than the architectural maximum of 16 which we might see even in a system emulating the limits of the architecture. Since we don't expose the size we tell the regset core externally let's define ARCH_SVE_VQ_MAX with the actual architectural maximum and use that for the regset, we'll still overallocate most of the time but much less so which will be helpful even if the core is fixed to not require contiguous allocations. Specify ARCH_SVE_VQ_MAX in terms of the maximum value that can be written into ZCR_ELx.LEN (where this is set in the hardware). For consistency update the maximum SME vector length to be specified in the same style while we are at it. We could also teach the ptrace core about runtime discoverable regset sizes but that would be a more invasive change and this is being observed in practical systems. Reported-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Tested-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240213-arm64-sve-ptrace-regset-size-v2-1-c7600ca74b9b@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h12
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c3
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
index 50e5f25d3024..481d94416d69 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
@@ -62,13 +62,13 @@ static inline void cpacr_restore(unsigned long cpacr)
* When we defined the maximum SVE vector length we defined the ABI so
* that the maximum vector length included all the reserved for future
* expansion bits in ZCR rather than those just currently defined by
- * the architecture. While SME follows a similar pattern the fact that
- * it includes a square matrix means that any allocations that attempt
- * to cover the maximum potential vector length (such as happen with
- * the regset used for ptrace) end up being extremely large. Define
- * the much lower actual limit for use in such situations.
+ * the architecture. Using this length to allocate worst size buffers
+ * results in excessively large allocations, and this effect is even
+ * more pronounced for SME due to ZA. Define more suitable VLs for
+ * these situations.
*/
-#define SME_VQ_MAX 16
+#define ARCH_SVE_VQ_MAX ((ZCR_ELx_LEN_MASK >> ZCR_ELx_LEN_SHIFT) + 1)
+#define SME_VQ_MAX ((SMCR_ELx_LEN_MASK >> SMCR_ELx_LEN_SHIFT) + 1)
struct task_struct;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index dc6cf0e37194..e3bef38fc2e2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1500,7 +1500,8 @@ static const struct user_regset aarch64_regsets[] = {
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SVE
[REGSET_SVE] = { /* Scalable Vector Extension */
.core_note_type = NT_ARM_SVE,
- .n = DIV_ROUND_UP(SVE_PT_SIZE(SVE_VQ_MAX, SVE_PT_REGS_SVE),
+ .n = DIV_ROUND_UP(SVE_PT_SIZE(ARCH_SVE_VQ_MAX,
+ SVE_PT_REGS_SVE),
SVE_VQ_BYTES),
.size = SVE_VQ_BYTES,
.align = SVE_VQ_BYTES,