Re: panic: mutex pmap not owned at ... efirt_machdep.c:255

From: Kyle Evans <kevans_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2018 08:56:58 -0500
On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 08:05:24AM -0500, Kyle Evans wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 3:37 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 11:27:02PM -0500, Kyle Evans wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This seems odd- pmap lock is acquired at [1], then asserted shortly
>> >> later at [2]... I avoid some of this stuff as well as I can, but is it
>> >> actually possible for PCPU_GET(...) acquired curpmap to not match
>> >> curthread->td_proc->p_vmspace->vm_pmap in this context?
>> >>
>> >> [1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/efidev/efirt.c?view=markup#l260
>> >> [2] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/amd64/amd64/efirt_machdep.c?view=markup#l254
>> > There could be that curpcpu not yet synced with proc0 pmap.  It could be
>> > fixed.
>> >
>> > But it is not clear to me why efi_arch_enter() is called there.  I see
>> > the check for GetTime belonging to the range described by a map descriptor.
>> > I do not see why do you need an enter into the EFI context for comparing
>> > integers.
>>
>> This probably could have been documented better, but efi_runtime
>> pointer may (always?) point into runtime service memory that isn't
>> valid/available at that point, so we get a fault and panic when
>> dereferencing it to grab rt_gettime address. We ran into this wall
>> when adding the check originally.
> Wouldn't it be enough to access it by translating physical address into
> DMAP ?

Ah, sure, sure. [1] is proper form, yeah?

[1] https://people.freebsd.org/~kevans/efi-dmap.diff
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