On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/19/24 08:02, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On 11/19/24 8:36 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 09:16:32AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > >>> Doesn't matter right now as there's still some bytes left for it, but > >>> let's prepare for the io_kiocb potentially growing and add a specific > >>> freeptr offset for it. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> This patch triggers: > >> > >> Kernel panic - not syncing: __kmem_cache_create_args: Failed to create slab 'io_kiocb'. Error -22 > >> CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.12.0-mac-00971-g158f238aa69d #1 > >> Stack from 00c63e5c: > >> 00c63e5c 00612c1c 00612c1c 00000300 00000001 005f3ce6 004b9044 00612c1c > >> 004ae21e 00000310 000000b6 005f3ce6 005f3ce6 ffffffea ffffffea 00797244 > >> 00c63f20 000c6974 005ee588 004c9051 005f3ce6 ffffffea 000000a5 00c614a0 > >> 004a72c2 0002cb62 000c675e 004adb58 0076f28a 005f3ce6 000000b6 00c63ef4 > >> 00000310 00c63ef4 00000000 00000016 0076f23e 00c63f4c 00000010 00000004 > >> 00000038 0000009a 01000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 000020e0 0076f23e > >> Call Trace: [<004b9044>] dump_stack+0xc/0x10 > >> [<004ae21e>] panic+0xc4/0x252 > >> [<000c6974>] __kmem_cache_create_args+0x216/0x26c > >> [<004a72c2>] strcpy+0x0/0x1c > >> [<0002cb62>] parse_args+0x0/0x1f2 > >> [<000c675e>] __kmem_cache_create_args+0x0/0x26c > >> [<004adb58>] memset+0x0/0x8c > >> [<0076f28a>] io_uring_init+0x4c/0xca > >> [<0076f23e>] io_uring_init+0x0/0xca > >> [<000020e0>] do_one_initcall+0x32/0x192 > >> [<0076f23e>] io_uring_init+0x0/0xca > >> [<0000211c>] do_one_initcall+0x6e/0x192 > >> [<004a72c2>] strcpy+0x0/0x1c > >> [<0002cb62>] parse_args+0x0/0x1f2 > >> [<000020ae>] do_one_initcall+0x0/0x192 > >> [<0075c4e2>] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a0/0x1a4 > >> [<0076f23e>] io_uring_init+0x0/0xca > >> [<004b911a>] kernel_init+0x0/0xec > >> [<004b912e>] kernel_init+0x14/0xec > >> [<004b911a>] kernel_init+0x0/0xec > >> [<0000252c>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0xc/0x14 > >> > >> when trying to boot the m68k:q800 machine in qemu. > >> > >> An added debug message in create_cache() shows the reason: > >> > >> #### freeptr_offset=154 object_size=182 flags=0x310 aligned=0 sizeof(freeptr_t)=4 > >> > >> freeptr_offset would need to be 4-byte aligned but that is not the > >> case on m68k. > > > > Why is ->work 2-byte aligned to begin with on m68k?! > > My understanding is that m68k does not align pointers. The minimum alignment for multi-byte integral values on m68k is 2 bytes. See also the comment at https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12/source/include/linux/maple_tree.h#L46 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
