linux-kernel - Re: Regression: 4.5-rc1 (bisect: hugetlb: make mm and fs code explicitly non-modular vs CONFIG_TIMER

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:23:30 +0100
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>,
	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"'Nadia Yvette Chambers'" <nyc@...omorphy.com>,
	"'Alexander Viro'" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"'Naoya Horiguchi'" <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	"'David Rientjes'" <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"'Davidlohr Bueso'" <dave@...olabs.net>,
	"'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression: 4.5-rc1 (bisect: hugetlb: make mm and fs code
 explicitly non-modular vs CONFIG_TIMER_STATS)

On 01/29/2016 01:27 AM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 01/28/2016 02:59 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> [Re: Regression: 4.5-rc1 (bisect: hugetlb: make mm and fs code explicitly non-modular vs CONFIG_TIMER_STATS)] On 28/01/2016 (Thu 14:18) Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/28/2016 07:05 AM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>>> On 01/28/2016 06:37 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>>>>> [Re: Regression: 4.5-rc1 (bisect: hugetlb: make mm and fs code explicitly non-modular vs CONFIG_TIMER_STATS)] On 28/01/2016 (Thu 10:48) Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 01/28/2016 10:40 AM, Hillf Danton wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Paul,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> the commit 3e89e1c5ea842 ("hugetlb: make mm and fs code explicitly non-modular")
>>>>>>>> triggers belows warning/oops, if CONFIG_TIMER_STATS is set.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Looking at the patch the only "real" change is the init_call,
>>>>>>>> and indeed
>>>>>>>> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
>>>>>>>> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
>>>>>>>> @@ -2653,7 +2653,7 @@ static int __init hugetlb_init(void)
>>>>>>>>                 mutex_init(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[i]);
>>>>>>>>         return 0;
>>>>>>>>  }
>>>>>>>> -subsys_initcall(hugetlb_init);
>>>>>>>> +device_initcall(hugetlb_init);
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  /* Should be called on processing a hugepagesz=... option */
>>>>>>>>  void __init hugetlb_add_hstate(unsigned int order)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> makes the problem go away.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Helps more if a patch is delivered.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem is that the original change was intentional. So I do not not
>>>>>> what the right fix is.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the report ; let me see if I can work out what TIMER_STATS
>>>>> is doing to cause this sometime today.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm?  CONFIG_TIMER_STATS is set in my config and I am not seeing the
>>>> issue.  Not sure, but it looks like Christian is building/running on
>>>> s390. This 'might' be a contributing factor.
>>>
>>> I do not see how CONFIG_TIMER_STATS contributes to this issue.  However,
>>
>> I looked at all the TIMER_STATS ifdef blocks and was also thinking the
>> same thing.  If it did toggle the problem then it was a red herring.
>> My test config had this set and I retested x86-64 today with it set.
>>
>>> on s390 numa nodes are initialized at device_initcall in the appropriately
>>> named routine numa_init_late().  hugetlb_init must be done after numa
>>> initialization.  So, I suggest we just move the hugetlb initialization
>>> back to device_initcall.  What do you think Paul?  Patch below.
>>
>> We could, but that ignores the fact that the original priorities worked
>> by chance and not by design, as my commit log indicates.  Instead, I'd
>> like to know why S390 does core NUMA operations as late as
>> device_initcall.   Setting up NUMA nodes should be arch_initcall or
>> subsys_initcall, or earlier --- it should not be device_initcall as if
>> it was some leaf node UART driver or ethernet driver.  There is no
>> endpoint "device" in NUMA in this context.
> 
> This is in linux-next after 4.5-rc1
> 
> commit 2d0f76a6ca1f2cdcffca7ce130f67ec61caa0999
> Author: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date:   Wed Jan 20 19:22:16 2016 +0100
> 
>     s390/numa: move numa_init_late() from device to arch_initcall
> 
>     Commit 3e89e1c5ea ("hugetlb: make mm and fs code explicitly
> non-modular")
>     moves hugetlb_init() from module_init to subsys_initcall.
> 
>     The hugetlb_init()->hugetlb_register_node() code accesses
> "node->dev.kobj"
>     which is initialized in numa_init_late().
> 
>     Since numa_init_late() is a device_initcall which is called *after*
>     subsys_initcall the above mentioned patch breaks NUMA on s390.
> 
>     So fix this and move numa_init_late() to arch_initcall.
> 
>     Fixes: 3e89e1c5ea ("hugetlb: make mm and fs code explicitly
> non-modular")
>     Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
> 


Ah, ok. thanks. Yes that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for pointing me
to this patch.