linux-kernel - Re: mainline build failure due to e240e53ae0ab ("mm, slub: add CONFIG_SLUB

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Date:   Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:11:47 -0800
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink)" <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: mainline build failure due to e240e53ae0ab ("mm, slub: add
 CONFIG_SLUB_TINY")

On 12/13/22 05:27, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 12/13/22 14:11, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 10:26:20AM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink) wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> The latest mainline kernel branch fails to build xtensa allmodconfig
>>> with gcc-11 with the error:
>>>
>>> kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c: In function '__report_matches':
>>> kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c:257:1: error: the frame size of 1680 bytes is larger than 1536 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>>>    257 | }
>>>        | ^
>>>
>>> git bisect pointed to e240e53ae0ab ("mm, slub: add CONFIG_SLUB_TINY")
>>>
>>
>> In part that is because above commit changes Kconfig dependencies such
>> that xtensa:allmodconfig actually tries to build kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.o.
>> In v6.1, CONFIG_KCSAN_KUNIT_TEST is not enabled for xtensa:allmodconfig.
> 
> OK, so IIUC
> - e240e53ae0ab introduces SLUB_TINY and adds !SLUB_TINY to KASAN's depend
> - allyesconfig/allmodconfig will enable SLUB_TINY
> - thus KASAN is disabled where it was previously enabled
> - thus KCSAN which depends on !KASAN is enabled where it was previously disabled
> - also arch/xtensa/Kconfig:    select ARCH_HAS_STRNCPY_FROM_USER if !KASAN
> 
>> Downside of the way SLUB_TINY is defined is that it is enabled for all
>> allmodconfig / allyesconfig builds, which then disables building a lot
>> of the more sophisticated memory allocation options.
> 
> It does disable KASAN, but seems that on the other hand allows enabling
> other stuff.
> Is there a way to exclude the SLUB_TINY option from all(mod/yes)config? Or
> it needs to be removed to SLUB_FULL and logically reversed?
> 

"depends on !COMPILE_TEST" should do it. Not sure though if that would just
hide the other compile failures seen with powerpc and arm allmodconfig
builds.

Guenter