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Message-ID: <20c53e88-acf5-4c4f-cea9-4dd8745814b5@akamai.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:37:21 -0500
From:   Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
To:     Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: next-20170217 boot on POWER8 LPAR : WARNING
 @kernel/jump_label.c:287

On 02/20/2017 10:05 PM, Sachin Sant wrote:
>
>> On 20-Feb-2017, at 8:27 PM, Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com
>> <mailto:jbaron@...mai.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 02/19/2017 09:07 AM, Sachin Sant wrote:
>>> While booting next-20170217 on a POWER8 LPAR following
>>> warning is displayed.
>>>
>>> Reverting the following commit helps boot cleanly.
>>> commit 3821fd35b5 :  jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key
>>>
>>> [   11.393008] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>> [   11.393031] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 2890 at kernel/jump_label.c:287
>>> static_key_set_entries.isra.10+0x3c/0x50
>>
>> Thanks for the report. So this is saying that the jump_entry table is
>> not at least 4-byte aligned. I wonder if this fixes it up?
>>
>
> Yes. With this patch the warning is gone.
>

Hi,

Thanks for testing. We probably need something like the following to 
make sure we don't hit this on other arches. Steve - I will send 4 
separate patches for this to get arch maintainers' acks for this?

Thanks,

-Jason

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/jump_label.h 
b/arch/arm/include/asm/jump_label.h
index 34f7b6980d21..9720c2f1850b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/jump_label.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/jump_label.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct 
static_key *key, bool bran
         asm_volatile_goto("1:\n\t"
                  WASM(nop) "\n\t"
                  ".pushsection __jump_table,  \"aw\"\n\t"
+                ".balign 4 \n\t"
                  ".word 1b, %l[l_yes], %c0\n\t"
                  ".popsection\n\t"
                  : :  "i" (&((char *)key)[branch]) :  : l_yes);
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ static __always_inline bool 
arch_static_branch_jump(struct static_key *key, bool
         asm_volatile_goto("1:\n\t"
                  WASM(b) " %l[l_yes]\n\t"
                  ".pushsection __jump_table,  \"aw\"\n\t"
+                ".balign 4 \n\t"
                  ".word 1b, %l[l_yes], %c0\n\t"
                  ".popsection\n\t"
                  : :  "i" (&((char *)key)[branch]) :  : l_yes);
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/jump_label.h 
b/arch/mips/include/asm/jump_label.h
index e77672539e8e..51ce97dda3cc 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/jump_label.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/jump_label.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct 
static_key *key, bool bran
         asm_volatile_goto("1:\t" NOP_INSN "\n\t"
                 "nop\n\t"
                 ".pushsection __jump_table,  \"aw\"\n\t"
+               ".balign 4 \n\t"
                 WORD_INSN " 1b, %l[l_yes], %0\n\t"
                 ".popsection\n\t"
                 : :  "i" (&((char *)key)[branch]) : : l_yes);
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ static __always_inline bool 
arch_static_branch_jump(struct static_key *key, bool
         asm_volatile_goto("1:\tj %l[l_yes]\n\t"
                 "nop\n\t"
                 ".pushsection __jump_table,  \"aw\"\n\t"
+               ".balign 4 \n\t"
                 WORD_INSN " 1b, %l[l_yes], %0\n\t"
                 ".popsection\n\t"
                 : :  "i" (&((char *)key)[branch]) : : l_yes);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h 
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h
index 9a287e0ac8b1..f870a85bac46 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/jump_label.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct 
static_key *key, bool bran
         asm_volatile_goto("1:\n\t"
                  "nop # arch_static_branch\n\t"
                  ".pushsection __jump_table,  \"aw\"\n\t"
+                ".balign 4 \n\t"
                  JUMP_ENTRY_TYPE "1b, %l[l_yes], %c0\n\t"
                  ".popsection \n\t"
                  : :  "i" (&((char *)key)[branch]) : : l_yes);
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ static __always_inline bool 
arch_static_branch_jump(struct static_key *key, bool
         asm_volatile_goto("1:\n\t"
                  "b %l[l_yes] # arch_static_branch_jump\n\t"
                  ".pushsection __jump_table,  \"aw\"\n\t"
+                ".balign 4 \n\t"
                  JUMP_ENTRY_TYPE "1b, %l[l_yes], %c0\n\t"
                  ".popsection \n\t"
                  : :  "i" (&((char *)key)[branch]) : : l_yes);
@@ -63,6 +65,7 @@ struct jump_entry {
  #define ARCH_STATIC_BRANCH(LABEL, KEY)         \
  1098:  nop;                                    \
         .pushsection __jump_table, "aw";        \
+       .balign 4;                              \
         FTR_ENTRY_LONG 1098b, LABEL, KEY;       \
         .popsection
  #endif
diff --git a/arch/tile/include/asm/jump_label.h 
b/arch/tile/include/asm/jump_label.h
index cde7573f397b..c9f6125c41ef 100644
--- a/arch/tile/include/asm/jump_label.h
+++ b/arch/tile/include/asm/jump_label.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct 
static_key *key,
         asm_volatile_goto("1:\n\t"
                 "nop" "\n\t"
                 ".pushsection __jump_table,  \"aw\"\n\t"
+               ".balign 4 \n\t"
                 ".quad 1b, %l[l_yes], %0 + %1 \n\t"
                 ".popsection\n\t"
                 : :  "i" (key), "i" (branch) : : l_yes);
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ static __always_inline bool 
arch_static_branch_jump(struct static_key *key,
         asm_volatile_goto("1:\n\t"
                 "j %l[l_yes]" "\n\t"
                 ".pushsection __jump_table,  \"aw\"\n\t"
+               ".balign 4 \n\t"
                 ".quad 1b, %l[l_yes], %0 + %1 \n\t"
                 ".popsection\n\t"
                 : :  "i" (key), "i" (branch) : : l_yes);

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