Re: Crash report: Broken NUMA distance map causes crash on arm64 system

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:30:11AM +0100, John Garry wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have stumbled upon this crash on my arm64 system:
> 
> [    7.040874] SMP: Total of 64 processors activated.
> [    7.045720] CPU features: detected: GIC system register CPU interface
> [    7.052240] CPU features: detected: 32-bit EL0 Support
> [    7.144026] CPU: All CPU(s) started at EL2
> [    7.148298] alternatives: patching kernel code
> [    7.155277] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
> address 0000000000000000
> [    7.164163] Mem abort info:
> [    7.166978]   ESR = 0x96000004
> [    7.170061]   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> [    7.176043]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
> [    7.179121]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> [    7.182291] Data abort info:
> [    7.185193]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
> [    7.189066]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
> [    7.192056] [0000000000000000] user address but active_mm is swapper
> [    7.198480] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [    7.204107] Modules linked in:
> [    7.207189] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W
> 4.19.0-00002-g3ed52fd-dirty #807
> [    7.216596] Hardware name: Hisilicon Hip07 D05 Development Board (DT)
> [    7.223102] pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO)
> [    7.227946] pc : __ll_sc_atomic_sub_return+0x4/0x20
> [    7.232873] lr : free_sched_groups.part.1+0x40/0x98
> [    7.237797] sp : ffff00000947bc60
> [    7.241138] x29: ffff00000947bc60 x28: ffff801fb49ba000
> [    7.246504] x27: ffff000009109b38 x26: ffff801fb4a38000
> [    7.251869] x25: ffff801fb48cc000 x24: ffff000009109000
> [    7.257235] x23: 0000000000000010 x22: 0000000000000001
> [    7.262599] x21: ffff801fb4a0b000 x20: ffff801fb4a65f00
> [    7.267964] x19: ffff801fb4a65f80 x18: 0000000000000400
> [    7.273329] x17: 00000000ffffffff x16: 0000000000000000
> [    7.278694] x15: ffff801ffbffef80 x14: ffff7e007ed14bc0
> [    7.284059] x13: 00000000000000c0 x12: 000000000000003f
> [    7.289423] x11: ffff801fb62258b8 x10: 0000000000000001
> [    7.294788] x9 : ffff801fb44b0100 x8 : 000000000000000f
> [    7.300153] x7 : ffff801fb48b1900 x6 : 0000801ff2efb000
> [    7.305518] x5 : ffff0000091096f0 x4 : 0000000000000400
> [    7.310882] x3 : ffff801fb4a65000 x2 : ffff801fb4a0b000
> [    7.316247] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000001
> [    7.321613] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, stack limit = 0x(____ptrval____))
> [    7.328382] Call trace:
> [    7.330847]  __ll_sc_atomic_sub_return+0x4/0x20
> [    7.335420]  destroy_sched_domain+0x20/0x70
> [    7.339642]  cpu_attach_domain+0xc8/0x2e8
> [    7.343687]  build_sched_domains+0xd44/0xde0
> [    7.347996]  sched_init_domains+0x68/0x88
> [    7.352044]  sched_init_smp+0x2c/0x7c
> [    7.355738]  kernel_init_freeable+0xdc/0x244
> [    7.360049]  kernel_init+0x10/0x108
> [    7.363567]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> [    7.367174] Code: 88107c31 35ffffb0 d65f03c0 f9800031 (885f7c31)
> [    7.373400] ---[ end trace 8150af869a14363f ]---
> [    7.378076] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> exitcode=0x0000000b
> [    7.378076]
> [    7.387320] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
> [    7.391297] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> exitcode=0x0000000b
> [    7.391297]  ]---
> 
> I will straightaway note that I have been fiddling with my board's device
> tree, specifically (breaking!) the NUMA distance map, like this:
> 
> distance-matrix = <0 0 10>,
>                    <0 1 15>,
>                    <0 2 20>,
>                    <0 3 25>,
>                    <1 0 15>,
>                    <1 1 10>,
>                    <1 2 25>,
>                    <1 3 30>,
>                    <2 0 20>,
>                    <2 1 25>,
>                    <2 2 10>,
>                    <2 3 15>,
>                    <3 0 10>,* should be same as 0->3 and > 10
>                    <3 1 10>,* should be same as 1->3 and > 10
>                    <3 2 15>,
>                    <3 3 15>;* should be 10
> 
> However I don't think that this should crash the kernel. I'd say
> of_numa_parse_distance_map_v1() should robustly handle broken maps, probably
> by erroring and causing NUMA to be disabled.

If build with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y and boot with "sched_debug" I think
sched_init_numa() should yell at you for the above 'mistake'.

> However I am interested to know if the scheduler crash is a real problem.

Ideally we'd not crash of course.. let me see if I can still make sense
of that topology code.





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