[ Sorry if I break the threading on this, I had to pull it off gmane ]
On Tue, 7 May 2013, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> OK got it narrowed down to CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y causing the problem
> with commit 8a965b3b. Ain't nothing like bisecting and booting and then
> diffing .config files on top of that.
I'm unable to boot with slab on current Linus -master, and bisected it
down almost as far as Tony did before trying SLUB and then finding this
thread. My box is a standard x86-64, nothing exciting and spinlock
debugging isn't on.
A few printks stuffed into Christoph's code:
cache ffff88047f000080 at index 5
creating slab cache at 6
create special cache #1 (this is kmalloc_caches[1])
cache ffff88047f0001c0 at index 7
creating slab cache at 8
creating slab cache at 9
creating slab cache at 10
... more get created
Pulling this into the code from commit 8a965b3b:
for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i <= KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH; i++) {
if (!kmalloc_caches[i]) {
kmalloc_caches[i] = create_kmalloc_cache(NULL,
1 << i, flags);
/*
* Caches that are not of the two-to-the-power-of size.
* These have to be created immediately after the
* earlier power of two caches
*/
if (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE <= 32 && !kmalloc_caches[1] && i
== 6)
kmalloc_caches[1] = create_kmalloc_cache(NULL,
96, flags);
if (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE <= 64 && !kmalloc_caches[2] && i
== 7)
kmalloc_caches[2] = create_kmalloc_cache(NULL,
192, flags);
}
}
kmalloc_caches[7] was not null, and so kmalloc_caches[2] was never
created.
I get this oops (with early printk on)
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1635!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-josef+ #920
Hardware name: Supermicro
X9SRE/X9SRE-3F/X9SRi/X9SRi-3F/X9SRE/X9SRE-3F/X9SRi/X9SRi-3F, BIOS 1.0a
03/06/2012
task: ffffffff8196a410 ti: ffffffff8195a000 task.ti: ffffffff8195a000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81a49c9d>] [<ffffffff81a49c9d>]
kmem_cache_init_late+0x40/0x7d
RSP: 0000:ffffffff8195bf78 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 00000000fffffff4 RBX: ffff88047f006480 RCX: 000000000000ff31
RDX: 000000000000000e RSI: 0000000000000046 RDI: ffffffff81baf238
RBP: ffffffff8195bf80 R08: 0000000000000400 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000002fa4 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81ab58d0
R13: ffffffff81abd2c0 R14: ffff88047ffaf0c0 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88047fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff88047ffff000 CR3: 0000000001965000 CR4: 00000000000406b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Stack:
ffffffffffffffff ffffffff8195bfc0 ffffffff81a25b64 ffffffff81a2573d
ffffffff81abd2c0 0000000000003000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000000000000 ffffffff8195bfd0 ffffffff81a2547f ffffffff8195bfe8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81a25b64>] start_kernel+0x235/0x394
[<ffffffff81a2573d>] ? repair_env_string+0x58/0x58
[<ffffffff81a2547f>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
[<ffffffff81a25548>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xc7/0xca
Code: 53 e8 40 57 bd ff 48 8b 05 21 f2 f4 ff 48 8d 58 a8 48 8d 43 58 48 3d a0
8e 99 81 74 1a 31 f6 48 89 df e8 ba 7f 6d ff 85 c0 74 02 <0f> 0b 48 8b 5b 58 48
83 eb 58 eb da 48 c7 c7 70 8e 99 81 e8 e6
RIP [<ffffffff81a49c9d>] kmem_cache_init_late+0x40/0x7d
RSP <ffffffff8195bf78>
---[ end trace 2e5587581263f881 ]---
This patch fixes things for me, but to maintain the rules from
Christoph's patch, kmalloc_caches[2] should have been created whenever
kmalloc_caches[7] was done.
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index d2517b0..ff3218a 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -446,18 +446,18 @@ void __init create_kmalloc_caches(unsigned long flags)
if (!kmalloc_caches[i]) {
kmalloc_caches[i] = create_kmalloc_cache(NULL,
1 << i, flags);
+ }
- /*
- * Caches that are not of the two-to-the-power-of size.
- * These have to be created immediately after the
- * earlier power of two caches
- */
- if (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE <= 32 && !kmalloc_caches[1] && i
== 6)
- kmalloc_caches[1] = create_kmalloc_cache(NULL,
96, flags);
+ /*
+ * Caches that are not of the two-to-the-power-of size.
+ * These have to be created immediately after the
+ * earlier power of two caches
+ */
+ if (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE <= 32 && !kmalloc_caches[1] && i == 6)
+ kmalloc_caches[1] = create_kmalloc_cache(NULL, 96,
flags);
- if (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE <= 64 && !kmalloc_caches[2] && i
== 7)
- kmalloc_caches[2] = create_kmalloc_cache(NULL,
192, flags);
- }
+ if (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE <= 64 && !kmalloc_caches[2] && i == 7)
+ kmalloc_caches[2] = create_kmalloc_cache(NULL, 192,
flags);
}
/* Kmalloc array is now usable */
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