Guenter Roeck reports that the new slub kunit tests added by commit
4e1c44b3db79 ("kunit, slub: add test_kfree_rcu() and
test_leak_destroy()") cause a lockup on boot on several architectures
when the kunit tests are configured to be built-in and not modules.
These tests invoke kfree_rcu() and kvfree_rcu_barrier() and boot
sequence inspection showed the runner for built-in kunit tests
kunit_run_all_tests() is called before setting system_state to
SYSTEM_RUNNING and calling rcu_end_inkernel_boot(), so this seems like a
likely cause. So while I was unable to reproduce the problem myself,
moving the call to kunit_run_all_tests() a bit later in the boot seems
to have fixed the lockup problem according to Guenter's limited testing.
No kunit tests should be broken by calling the built-in executor a bit
later, as when compiled as modules, they are still executed even later
than this.
Fixes: 4e1c44b3db79 ("kunit, slub: add test_kfree_rcu() and test_leak_destroy()")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6fcb1252-7990-4f0d-8027-5e83f0fb9409@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: rcu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rae Moar <rmoar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kselftest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: kunit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
init/main.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index c4778edae7972f512d5eefe8400075ac35a70d1c..7890ebb00e84b8bd7bac28923fb1fe571b3e9ee2 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -1489,6 +1489,8 @@ static int __ref kernel_init(void *unused)
rcu_end_inkernel_boot();
+ kunit_run_all_tests();
+
do_sysctl_args();
if (ramdisk_execute_command) {
@@ -1579,8 +1581,6 @@ static noinline void __init kernel_init_freeable(void)
do_basic_setup();
- kunit_run_all_tests();
-
wait_for_initramfs();
console_on_rootfs();
--
2.46.1
