How to debug u-boot data abort

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Thu Mar 24 04:18:37 CET 2022


On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:27:08AM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 3/23/22 08:45, qianfan wrote:
> > 
> > 在 2022/3/23 10:28, qianfan 写道:
> > > 
> > > Hi:
> > > 
> > > I had a custom AM335X board connected my computer by usbnet. It always
> > > report data abort when 'dhcp':
> > > 
> > > Next it the log:
> > > 
> > > U-Boot 2022.01-rc1-00183-gfa5b4e2d19-dirty (Feb 25 2022 - 15:45:02 +0800)
> > > 
> > > CPU  : AM335X-GP rev 2.1
> > > Model: WISDOM AM335X CCT
> > > DRAM:  512 MiB
> > > NAND:  256 MiB
> > > MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0
> > > Loading Environment from NAND... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default
> > > environment
> > > 
> > > Net:   Could not get PHY for ethernet at 4a100000: addr 0
> > > eth2: ethernet at 4a100000, eth3: usb_ether
> > > Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> > > => setenv autoload no
> > > => dhcp
> > > using musb-hdrc, OUT ep1out IN ep1in STATUS ep2in
> > > MAC de:ad:be:ef:00:01
> > > HOST MAC de:ad:be:ef:00:00
> > > RNDIS ready
> > > musb-hdrc: peripheral reset irq lost!
> > > high speed config #2: 2 mA, Ethernet Gadget, using RNDIS
> > > USB RNDIS network up!
> > > BOOTP broadcast 1
> > > BOOTP broadcast 2
> > > BOOTP broadcast 3
> > > DHCP client bound to address 192.168.200.4 (757 ms)
> > > data abort
> 
> This could be an alignment error.
> 
> > > pc : [<9fe9b0a2>]          lr : [<9febbc3f>]
> > > reloc pc : [<808130a2>]    lr : [<80833c3f>]
> 
> You can use these addresses together with the u-boot.map file to figure
> out in which function the abort occurs and from where it was called.
> 
> Use 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -S -D' to find the exact code positions.
> 
> > > sp : 9de53410  ip : 9de53578     fp : 00000001
> > > r10: 9de5345c  r9 : 9de67e80     r8 : 9febbae5
> > > r7 : 9de72c30  r6 : 9feec710     r5 : 0000000d  r4 : 00000018
> > > r3 : 3fdd8e04  r2 : 00000002     r1 : 9feec728  r0 : 9feec700
> > > Flags: Nzcv  IRQs off  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32 (T)
> > > Code: f023 0303 60ca 4403 (6091) 685a
> 
> This is how to find the exact instruction causing the problem:
> 
> $ echo 'Code: f023 0303 60ca 4403 (6091) 685a' | \
> >       ARCH=arm scripts/decodecode
> Code: f023 0303 60ca 4403 (6091) 685a
> All code
> ========
>    0:   23 f0                   and    %eax,%esi
>    2:   03 03                   add    (%rbx),%eax
>    4:   ca 60 03                lret   $0x360
>    7:*  44 91                   rex.R xchg %eax,%ecx            <--
> trapping instruction
>    9:   60                      (bad)
>    a:   5a                      pop    %rdx
>    b:   68                      .byte 0x68
> 
> Code starting with the faulting instruction
> ===========================================
>    0:   91                      xchg   %eax,%ecx
>    1:   60                      (bad)
>    2:   5a                      pop    %rdx
>    3:   68                      .byte 0x68

The code looks like x86 instructions.
Please don't forget to add "CROSS_COMPILE=..." :)

Code: f023 0303 60ca 4403 (6091) 685a
All code
========
   0:	f023 0303 	bic.w	r3, r3, #3
   4:	60ca      	str	r2, [r1, #12]
   6:	4403      	add	r3, r0
   8:*	6091      	str	r1, [r2, #8]		<-- trapping instruction
   a:	685a      	ldr	r2, [r3, #4]

Code starting with the faulting instruction
===========================================
   0:	6091      	str	r1, [r2, #8]
   2:	685a      	ldr	r2, [r3, #4]

Then,
${CROSS_COMPILE}objdump --disassemble=malloc -lS ${BUILDDIR}/u-boot | grep -A 10 -B 20 ${PATTERN}
# Here, PATTERN may be the instruction ("6091") or the location ("8081496c" in your case?)

or similarly

${CROSS_COMPILE}gdb --batch -ex "disas/m ${LOC}" ${BUILDDIR}/u-boot | grep -A 10 -B 20 ${LOC}
# Here, LOC is your "reloc pc" (0x80817586)

gives you some hint about the exact location.

-Takahiro Akashi


> I hope this helps to figure out, where exactly the problem occurs
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Heinrich
> 
> > > Resetting CPU ...
> > > 
> > > resetting ...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > It's there has any doc about how to debug data abort? Or is the bug is
> > > already fixed?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > This bug doesn't fixed on master code. I found v2021.01 is good and
> > v2021.04-rc2 is bad.
> > 
> > Also I had tested this on beaglebone black with am335x_evm_defconfig,
> > has the simliar problem.
> > 
> > find the first bug commit via 'git bisect': it told me that commit
> > e97eb638de0dc8f6e989e20eaeb0342f103cb917 broke it. But it is very
> > strange due to this commit doesn't touch any dhcp or network code.
> > 
> > ➜  u-boot-main git:(e97eb638de) ✗ git bisect bug
> > e97eb638de0dc8f6e989e20eaeb0342f103cb917 is the first bug commit
> > commit e97eb638de0dc8f6e989e20eaeb0342f103cb917
> > Author: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> > Date:   Wed Jan 20 22:21:53 2021 +0100
> > 
> >      fs: fat: consistent error handling for flush_dir()
> > 
> >      Provide function description for flush_dir().
> >      Move all error messages for flush_dir() from the callers to the
> > function.
> >      Move mapping of errors to -EIO to the function.
> >      Always check return value of flush_dir() (Coverity CID 316362).
> > 
> >      In fat_unlink() return -EIO if flush_dirty_fat_buffer() fails.
> > 
> >      Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> > 
> > :040000 040000 2281a449f2d134078d7faa1ee735a367b55aad7e
> > 77d188b1c99181fd71f2167fdeee3434a09db209 M      fs
> > 
> > 
> > 184aa6504143b452132e28cd3ebecc7b941cdfa1 is the first commit before
> > e97eb638de0dc8f6e989e20eaeb0342f103cb917:
> > 
> > * e97eb638de0dc8f6e989e20eaeb0342f103cb917 fs: fat: consistent error
> > handling for flush_dir()
> > *   184aa6504143b452132e28cd3ebecc7b941cdfa1 Merge tag
> > 'u-boot-rockchip-20210121' of
> > https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-rockchip
> > |\
> > | * 9ddc0787bd660214366e386ce689dd78299ac9d0 pci: Add Rockchip dwc based
> > PCIe controller driver
> > 
> > I checked 184aa6504143b452132e28cd3ebecc7b941cdfa1 can work fine.
> > 
> > U-Boot 2021.01-00688-g184aa65041-dirty (Mar 23 2022 - 15:07:56 +0800)
> > 
> > CPU  : AM335X-GP rev 2.1
> > Model: TI AM335x BeagleBone Black
> > DRAM:  512 MiB
> > WDT:   Started with servicing (60s timeout)
> > NAND:  0 MiB
> > MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1
> > Loading Environment from FAT... <ethaddr> not set. Validating first
> > E-fuse MAC
> > Net:   eth2: ethernet at 4a100000, eth3: usb_ether
> > Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> > => dhcp
> > ethernet at 4a100000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete.........
> > TIMEOUT !
> > using musb-hdrc, OUT ep1out IN ep1in STATUS ep2in
> > MAC de:ad:be:ef:00:01
> > HOST MAC de:ad:be:ef:00:00
> > RNDIS ready
> > musb-hdrc: peripheral reset irq lost!
> > high speed config #2: 2 mA, Ethernet Gadget, using RNDIS
> > USB RNDIS network up!
> > BOOTP broadcast 1
> > BOOTP broadcast 2
> > BOOTP broadcast 3
> > DHCP client bound to address 192.168.200.157 (757 ms)
> > Using usb_ether device
> > TFTP from server 192.168.200.1; our IP address is 192.168.200.157
> > Filename 'u-boot.img'.
> > Load address: 0x82000000
> > Loading: #################################################################
> > #################################################################
> > #################################################################
> >           #########################
> >           2.5 MiB/s
> > done
> > Bytes transferred = 1123888 (112630 hex)
> > =>
> > 
> 


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