On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:54:04 -0700 Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> wrote:
> When a module option, or core kernel argument, toggles a static-key it > requires jump labels to be initialized early. While x86, PowerPC, and > ARM64 arrange for jump_label_init() to be called before parse_args(), > ARM does not. > > Kernel command line: rdinit=/sbin/init page_alloc.shuffle=1 panic=-1 > console=ttyAMA0,115200 page_alloc.shuffle=1 > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at ./include/linux/jump_label.h:303 > page_alloc_shuffle+0x12c/0x1ac > static_key_enable(): static key 'page_alloc_shuffle_key+0x0/0x4' used > before call to jump_label_init() > Modules linked in: > CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted > 5.1.0-rc4-next-20190410-00003-g3367c36ce744 #1 > Hardware name: ARM Integrator/CP (Device Tree) > [<c0011c68>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c000ec48>] (show_stack+0x10/0x18) > [<c000ec48>] (show_stack) from [<c07e9710>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x24) > [<c07e9710>] (dump_stack) from [<c001bb1c>] (__warn+0xe0/0x108) > [<c001bb1c>] (__warn) from [<c001bb88>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x44/0x6c) > [<c001bb88>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c0b0c4a8>] > (page_alloc_shuffle+0x12c/0x1ac) > [<c0b0c4a8>] (page_alloc_shuffle) from [<c0b0c550>] > (shuffle_store+0x28/0x48) > [<c0b0c550>] (shuffle_store) from [<c003e6a0>] (parse_args+0x1f4/0x350) > [<c003e6a0>] (parse_args) from [<c0ac3c00>] (start_kernel+0x1c0/0x488) > > Move the fallback call to jump_label_init() to occur before > parse_args(). The redundant calls to jump_label_init() in other archs > are left intact in case they have static key toggling use cases that are > even earlier than option parsing. Has it been confirmed that this fixes mm-shuffle-initial-free-memory-to-improve-memory-side-cache-utilization.patch on beaglebone-black?
