linux-kernel - Re: [kmemleak] b751c52bb5: BUG:kernel_hang_in_boot

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:20:22 +0800
From:   Li Zhijian <zhijianx.li@...el.com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
Cc:     Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, lkp@...ts.01.org
Subject: Re: [kmemleak] b751c52bb5: BUG:kernel_hang_in_boot_stage



On 6/10/20 6:56 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 03:51:56PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
>> FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7):
>>
>> commit: b751c52bb587ae66f773b15204ef7a147467f4c7 ("kmemleak: increase DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE default to 16K")
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
>>
>> in testcase: boot
>>
>> on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 8G
> [...]
>> BUG: kernel hang in boot stage
>>
>> To reproduce:
>>
>>          # build kernel
>> 	cd linux
>> 	cp config-5.3.0-11789-gb751c52bb587a .config
>> 	make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=i386 olddefconfig prepare modules_prepare bzImage
> I've never tried kmemleak on i386.
>
> Anyway, I'm not sure what caused the hang (or whether it's a hang at
> all) but I suspect prior to the above commit, kmemleak probably just
> disabled itself (early log  buffer exceeded).

> So the bug may have been
> there already,
I think so

> only that kmemleak started working and tripped over it
> when the log buffer increased.
>
> Is there a chance that the kernel got much slower with kmemleak enabled
> and the test scripts timed out?

> Does this problem still exist with the latest mainline?
Yes, that's true.

Thanks
Zhijian (0Day CI team)
>
> Thanks.
>