Hi Jens.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 8:00 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/19/24 10:49 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
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
Maybe it's time we put m68k to bed? :-)
We can add a forced alignment ->work to be 4 bytes, won't change
anything on anything remotely current. But does feel pretty hacky to
need to align based on some ancient thing.
Why does freeptr_offset need to be 4-byte aligned?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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