On Tue, Aug 06 2024 at 13:02, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 8/6/24 04:40, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It looks like maxobj calculation is bogus, would be useful to see what values it > calculates from. I'm attaching a diff, but maybe it will also hide the issue... It does hide it :( > If someone has a /proc/slabinfo from a working boot with otherwise same config > it might be also enough to guess what values should be expected there, > at least the s-size. > > objects=21 vs 25 also seem odd though > > used=5 with used=6 in the first two also suggests we already passed this code > successfully for creating a number of kmalloc caches and only then it started > failing, that's also weird. I added a printk() to check_slab() and on the non-failing boot this looks like: [ 0.000000] c 000000004017b0f8 c 0000000041ed0000 objects 21 max 21 order 0 size 192, inuse 2 [ 0.000000] c 000000004017b1c8 c 0000000041ed0080 objects 25 max 25 order 1 size 320, inuse 1 [ 0.000000] c 0000000043402010 c 0000000041ed0080 objects 25 max 25 order 1 size 320, inuse 2 [ 0.000000] c 0000000043402010 c 0000000041ed0080 objects 25 max 25 order 1 size 320, inuse 3 [ 0.000000] c 0000000043402150 c 0000000041ed0000 objects 21 max 21 order 0 size 192, inuse 3 [ 0.000000] c 0000000043402010 c 0000000041ed0080 objects 25 max 25 order 1 size 320, inuse 4 [ 0.000000] c 0000000043402150 c 0000000041ed0000 objects 21 max 21 order 0 size 192, inuse 4 [ 0.000000] c 0000000043402010 c 0000000041ed0080 objects 25 max 25 order 1 size 320, inuse 5 [ 0.000000] c 0000000043402150 c 0000000041ed0000 objects 21 max 21 order 0 size 192, inuse 5 [ 0.000000] c 0000000043402010 c 0000000041ed0080 objects 25 max 25 order 1 size 320, inuse 6 [ 0.000000] c 0000000043402150 c 0000000041ed0000 objects 21 max 21 order 0 size 192, inuse 6 I did some more experiments to figure out why adding or removing text cures it. The minimal change which makes it boot again is: asmlinkage __visible void __softirq_entry __do_softirq(void) { + current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC; handle_softirqs(false); } That results in the following System.map delta: --- ../upstream.txt 2024-08-06 16:52:49.746528992 +0200 +++ ../build-misc/System.map 2024-08-06 19:02:32.652201977 +0200 @@ -47600,15 +47600,15 @@ 0000000041218c30 T __do_softirq 0000000041218c30 T __irqentry_text_end 0000000041218c30 T __softirqentry_text_start -0000000041218c70 T $$divoI -0000000041218c70 T __softirqentry_text_end -00000000412190d0 T $$divI_2 -00000000412190d0 T $$divide_by_constant -00000000412190e0 T $$divI_4 -00000000412190f0 T $$divI_8 -0000000041219100 T $$divI_16 -00000000412192d8 T $$divI_17 -000000004121930c T $$divU_17 +0000000041218c80 T $$divoI +0000000041218c80 T __softirqentry_text_end +00000000412190e0 T $$divI_2 +00000000412190e0 T $$divide_by_constant +00000000412190f0 T $$divI_4 +0000000041219100 T $$divI_8 +0000000041219110 T $$divI_16 +00000000412192e8 T $$divI_17 +000000004121931c T $$divU_17 000000004121a000 D __start_opd 000000004121a000 D _etext 000000004121a000 D _sdata So this change adds 16 bytes to __softirq() which moves the division functions up by 16 bytes. That's all it takes to make the stupid go away.... I wonder whether this is some qemu stupid. Thanks, tglx