linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failures due to 'mm: account pmd page tables to the process'

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Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:17:55 -0800
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	sfr@...b.auug.org.au, mhocko@...e.cz,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failures due to 'mm: account pmd
 page tables to the process'

On 01/26/2015 06:03 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 01/26/2015 04:29 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 09:52:07PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 01:55:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 07:07:56 -0800 Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> qemu:microblaze generates warnings to the console.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 32 at mm/mmap.c:2858 exit_mmap+0x184/0x1a4()
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> with various call stacks. See
>>>>>>> http://server.roeck-us.net:8010/builders/qemu-microblaze-mmotm/builds/15/steps/qemubuildcommand/logs/stdio
>>>>>>> for details.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you try patch below? Completely untested.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >From b584bb8d493794f67484c0b57c161d61c02599bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>>>> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
>>>>>> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:08:26 +0200
>>>>>> Subject: [PATCH] microblaze: define __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Microblaze uses custom implementation of PMD folding, but doesn't define
>>>>>> __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED, which generic code expects to see. Let's fix it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Defining __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED will drop out unused __pmd_alloc().
>>>>>> It also fixes problems with recently-introduced pmd accounting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
>>>>>> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tested working.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea how to fix the sh problem ?
>>>>
>>>> Can you tell us more about it?  All I'm seeing is "qemu:sh fails to
>>>> shut down", which isn't very clear.
>>>
>>> Turns out that the include file defining __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED
>>> was not always included where used, resulting in a messed up mm_struct.
>>
>> What means "messed up" here? It should only affect size of mm_struct.
>>
> Plus the offset of all variables after the #ifndef.
>
>>> The patch below fixes the problem for the sh architecture.
>>> No idea if the patch is correct/acceptable for other architectures.
>>
>> That's pain. Some archs includes <linux/mm_types.h> from <asm/pgtable.h>.
>> I don't see obvious way to fix this. Urghh.
>>
> Does it matter ? Circular includes are normally ok and happen all over the place.

Ah yes, it does, because mm_struct will not see the define in that case
since it comes later. Hmm, that is really tricky. You could of course
just drop the conditional from mm_struct. That would result in an unused
variable for some architectures, but at least it would work.

Guenter

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