linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 23/70] mm/mmap: change do_brk_flags() to expand existing VMA and add do_brk

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Message-ID: <60a3bc3f-5cd6-79ac-a7a8-4ecc3d7fd3db@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 May 2022 09:37:52 +0200
From:   Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@...cle.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        "maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org" <maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 23/70] mm/mmap: change do_brk_flags() to expand
 existing VMA and add do_brk_munmap()

On 5/3/22 23:55, Liam Howlett wrote:
> * Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com> [220503 15:49]:
>> On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 08:50:04PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 01:31:00PM +0000, Liam Howlett wrote:
>>>> * Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com> [220502 06:18]:
>>>>> On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 05:24:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>>>> (cc S390 maintainers)
>>>>>> (cc stable & Greg)
>> ...
>>>>>>> booting.  The last thing I see is:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "[    4.668916] Spectre V2 mitigation: execute trampolines"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've bisected back to commit e553f62f10d9 (mm, page_alloc: fix
>>>>>>> build_zonerefs_node())
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> With the this commit, I am unable to boot one out of three times.  When
>>>>>>> using the previous commit I was not able to get it to hang after trying
>>>>>>> 10+ times.  This is a qemu s390 install with KASAN on and I see no error
>>>>>>> messages.  I think it's likely it is this patch, but no guaranteed.
>> ...
>>>>> Liam, could you share your kernel config?
>>>>
>>>> Sure thing.  See attached.
>>>
>>> So, I can reproduce the hanging system now. However this looks like a
>>> qemu problem on s390, since I can reproduce this only with Qemu+TCG.
>>> Qemu with kvm works without any problems (same if I use z/VM as
>>> hypervisor).
>>>
>>> Janosch, Claudio, can you have a look at this please?
>>
>> So, at least for me this problem also exists with plain v5.17.
>> Switching off KASAN, or alternatively switching to KASAN_INLINE
>> "fixes" it for me with Qemu+TCG.
>>
>> Liam, could you please also try to disable KASAN in your config? With
>> that I think we can be almost sure this could be some bug in Qemu.
> 
> With KASAN, my tree fails 100% of the time (mm-stable + my maple tree
> patches)
> 
> Without KASAN, it boots 100% of the time.
> 
> I think this verifies with you say above?
> 
> Thanks,
> Liam

I had a short look yesterday and the boot usually hangs in the raid6 
code. Disabling vector instructions didn't make a difference but a few 
interruptions via GDB solve the problem for some reason.

CCing David and Thomas for TCG