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

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Date:   Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:08:00 -0400
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     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>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: page_alloc.shuffle=1 + CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y = arm64 hang

Another data point is if change CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS from =y to =n, it
will also fix it.

On Thu, 2019-08-22 at 17:33 -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.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/154899811208.3165233.17623209031065121886.s
> tgit@...llia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com/
> 
> ...
> [  125.142689][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.2.auto: option mask 0x2
> [  125.149687][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.2.auto: ias 44-bit, oas 44-bit
> (features 0x0000170d)
> [  125.165198][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.2.auto: allocated 524288 entries
> for cmdq
> [  125.239425][ [  125.251484][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.3.auto: option
> mask 0x2
> [  125.258233][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.3.auto: ias 44-bit, oas 44-bit
> (features 0x0000170d)
> [  125.282750][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.3.auto: allocated 524288 entries
> for cmdq
> [  125.320097][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.3.auto: allocated 524288 entries
> for evtq
> [  125.332667][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.4.auto: option mask 0x2
> [  125.339427][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.4.auto: ias 44-bit, oas 44-bit
> (features 0x0000170d)
> [  125.354846][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.4.auto: allocated 524288 entries
> for cmdq
> [  125.375295][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.4.auto: allocated 524288 entries
> for evtq
> [  125.387371][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.5.auto: option mask 0x2
> [  125.393955][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.5.auto: ias 44-bit, oas 44-bit
> (features 0x0000170d)
> [  125.522605][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.5.auto: allocated 524288 entries
> for cmdq
> [  125.543338][    T1] arm-smmu-v3 arm-smmu-v3.5.auto: allocated 524288 entries
> for evtq
> [  126.694742][    T1] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
> [  126.799291][    T1] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> [  126.978632][    T1] zswap: loaded using pool lzo/zbud
> [  126.989168][    T1] kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector initialized
> [  126.989191][ T1577] kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread started
> [  127.044079][ T1335] pcieport 0000:0f:00.0: Adding to iommu group 0
> [  127.388074][    T1] Freeing unused kernel memory: 22528K
> [  133.527005][    T1] Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found
> [  133.533474][    T1] Run /init as init process
> [  133.727196][    T1] systemd[1]: System time before build time, advancing
> clock.
> [  134.576021][ T1587] modprobe (1587) used greatest stack depth: 27056 bytes
> left
> [  134.764026][    T1] systemd[1]: systemd 239 running in system mode. (+PAM
> +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT
> +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN2 -IDN +PCRE2 default-
> hierarchy=legacy)
> [  134.799044][    T1] systemd[1]: Detected architecture arm64.
> [  134.804818][    T1] systemd[1]: Running in initial RAM disk.
> <...hang...>
> 
> Fix it by either set page_alloc.shuffle=0 or CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=n which allow
> it to continue successfully.
> 
> 
> [  121.093846][    T1] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <hpe-apollo-cn99xx>.
> [  123.157524][    T1] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes
> read)
> [  123.168562][    T1] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket.
> [  OK  ] Listening on Journal Socket.
> [  123.203932][    T1] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes
> read)
> [  123.212813][    T1] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Kernel Socket.
> [  OK  ] Listening on udev Kernel Socket.
> ...