linux-kernel - Re: page_alloc.shuffle=1 + CONFIG_PROVE

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Date:   Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:37:16 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: page_alloc.shuffle=1 + CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y = arm64 hang

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 05:33:23PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cailca/linux-mm/master/arm64.config
> 
> Booting an arm64 ThunderX2 server with page_alloc.shuffle=1 [1] +
> CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y results in hanging.

Hmm, but the config you link to above has:

# CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is not set

so I'm confused. Also, which tree is this?

Will