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Message-ID: <a24c4255-1e69-40af-b553-7862908a0a6a@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 9 Oct 2023 23:09:25 +0200
From:   Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Cc:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@...edance.com>,
        Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev>,
        Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] hugetlb: restructure pool allocations



On 10/9/23 17:04, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 10/09/23 12:11, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> On 9.10.2023 05:29, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>> On 10/06/23 15:35, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>>> On 10/06/23 23:39, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>>> On 6.10.2023 05:08, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/02/23 11:57, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>>>>> On 9/29/23 22:57, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 09/27/23 13:26, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 26.09.2023 01:48, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>
>> I managed to get a boot log:
>>
>> https://pastebin.com/GwurpCw9
>>
>> This is using arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8550-mtp.dts for reference
>>
> 
> Early on in boot log before the panic, I see this in the log:
> 
> [    0.000000] efi: UEFI not found.
> [    0.000000] [Firmware Bug]: Kernel image misaligned at boot, please fix your bootloader!
> 
> Isn't that misalignment pretty serious?  Or, is is possible to run with that?
That has never caused any issues and sadly I can't do anything about it.

> 
> There are no hugetlb pages allocated at boot time:
> 
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line: PMOS_NO_OUTPUT_REDIRECT console=ttyMSM0 earlycon clk_ignore_unused pd_ignore_unused androidboot.bootdevice=1d84000.ufshc androidboot.fstab_suffix=default androidboot.boot_devices=soc/1d84000.ufshc androidboot.serialno=ab855d8d androidboot.baseband=msm
> 
> So, the routine where we are panic'ing (gather_bootmem_prealloc) should be a
> noop.  The first thing it does is:
> list_for_each_entry(m, &huge_boot_pages, list) {
> ...
> }
> 
> However, huge_boot_pages should be empty as initialized here:
> __initdata LIST_HEAD(huge_boot_pages);
> 
> At the end of the routine, we call prep_and_add_bootmem_folios to
> process the local list created withing that above loop:
> 
> LIST_HEAD(folio_list);
> 
> This should also be empty and a noop.
> 
> Is it possible that the misaligned kernel image could make these lists
> appear as non-empty?
I don't think I have an answer for this

Konrad

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