On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 03:41:19PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 11:03:49AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 01:26:15PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote: > > > On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 12:43 +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 03:23:38PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:00:36AM -0400, Qian Cai wrote: > > > > > > The commit "arm64: switch to generic version of pte allocation" > > > > > > introduced endless failures during boot like, > > > > > > > > > > > > kobject_add_internal failed for pgd_cache(285:chronyd.service) (error: > > > > > > -2 parent: cgroup) > > > > > > > > > > > > It turns out __GFP_ACCOUNT is passed to kernel page table allocations > > > > > > and then later memcg finds out those don't belong to any cgroup. > > > > > > > > > > Mike, I understood from [1] that this wasn't expected to be a problem, > > > > > as the accounting should bypass kernel threads. > > > > > > > > > > Was that assumption wrong, or is something different happening here? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > backtrace: > > > > > > kobject_add_internal > > > > > > kobject_init_and_add > > > > > > sysfs_slab_add+0x1a8 > > > > > > __kmem_cache_create > > > > > > create_cache > > > > > > memcg_create_kmem_cache > > > > > > memcg_kmem_cache_create_func > > > > > > process_one_work > > > > > > worker_thread > > > > > > kthread > > > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> > > > > > > --- > > > > > > arch/arm64/mm/pgd.c | 2 +- > > > > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > > > > > > > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/pgd.c b/arch/arm64/mm/pgd.c > > > > > > index 769516cb6677..53c48f5c8765 100644 > > > > > > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/pgd.c > > > > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pgd.c > > > > > > @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm) > > > > > > if (PGD_SIZE == PAGE_SIZE) > > > > > > return (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(gfp); > > > > > > else > > > > > > - return kmem_cache_alloc(pgd_cache, gfp); > > > > > > + return kmem_cache_alloc(pgd_cache, GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL); > > > > > > > > > > This is used to allocate PGDs for both user and kernel pagetables (e.g. > > > > > for the efi runtime services), so while this may fix the regression, I'm > > > > > not sure it's the right fix. > > > > > > > > > > Do we need a separate pgd_alloc_kernel()? > > > > > > > > So can I take the above for -rc5, or is somebody else working on a different > > > > fix to implement pgd_alloc_kernel()? > > > > > > The offensive commit "arm64: switch to generic version of pte allocation" is not > > > yet in the mainline, but only in the Andrew's tree and linux-next, and I doubt > > > Andrew will push this out any time sooner given it is broken. > > > > I'd assumed that Mike would respin these patches to implement and use > > pgd_alloc_kernel() (or take gfp flags) and the updated patches would > > replace these in akpm's tree. > > > > Mike, could you confirm what your plan is? I'm happy to review/test > > updated patches for arm64. > > Sorry for the delay, I'm mostly offline these days. > > I wanted to understand first what is the reason for the failure. I've tried > to reproduce it with qemu, but I failed to find a bootable configuration > that will have PGD_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE :( This is the case with 48-bit VA and 64K pages. In that case we have three levels of table, and the PGD is 1/16th of a page, as it only needs to resolve 9 bits of virtual address rather than 13. If you build defconfig + ARM64_64K_PAGES=y, that should be the case: [mark@lakrids:~/src/linux]% usekorg 8.1.0 aarch64-linux-objdump -d arch/arm64/mm/pgd.o arch/arm64/mm/pgd.o: file format elf64-littleaarch64 Disassembly of section .text: 0000000000000000 <pgd_alloc>: 0: a9bf7bfd stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]! 4: 90000000 adrp x0, 0 <pgd_alloc> 8: 5281b801 mov w1, #0xdc0 // #3520 c: 910003fd mov x29, sp 10: f9400000 ldr x0, [x0] 14: 94000000 bl 0 <kmem_cache_alloc> 18: a8c17bfd ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16 1c: d65f03c0 ret 0000000000000020 <pgd_free>: 20: a9bf7bfd stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]! 24: 90000000 adrp x0, 0 <pgd_alloc> 28: 910003fd mov x29, sp 2c: f9400000 ldr x0, [x0] 30: 94000000 bl 0 <kmem_cache_free> 34: a8c17bfd ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16 38: d65f03c0 ret Disassembly of section .init.text: 0000000000000000 <pgd_cache_init>: 0: a9bf7bfd stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]! 4: 52804002 mov w2, #0x200 // #512 8: d2800004 mov x4, #0x0 // #0 c: 910003fd mov x29, sp 10: 2a0203e1 mov w1, w2 14: 52a00083 mov w3, #0x40000 // #262144 18: 90000000 adrp x0, 0 <pgd_cache_init> 1c: 91000000 add x0, x0, #0x0 20: 94000000 bl 0 <kmem_cache_create> 24: 90000001 adrp x1, 0 <pgd_cache_init> 28: a8c17bfd ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16 2c: f9000020 str x0, [x1] 30: d65f03c0 ret Thanks, Mark.