On 02/04/2013 09:22 AM, James Hogan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've hit boot problems in next-20130204 on Meta:
>
> META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] kobject (4fc03980): tried to init an initialized object, something is seriously wrong.
> META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF]
> META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] Call trace:
> META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<4000888c>] _show_stack+0x68/0x7c
> META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<400088b4>] _dump_stack+0x14/0x28
> META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40103794>] _kobject_init+0x58/0x9c
> META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40103810>] _kobject_create+0x38/0x64
> META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40103eac>] _kobject_create_and_add+0x14/0x8c
> META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40190ac4>] _mnt_init+0xd8/0x220
> META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40190508>] _vfs_caches_init+0xb0/0x160
...
> I've bisected it to the following commit:
>
> commit 95a05b428cc675694321c8f762591984f3fd2b1e
> Author: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Jan 10 19:14:19 2013 +0000
>
> slab: Common constants for kmalloc boundaries
>
> Standardize the constants that describe the smallest and largest
> object kept in the kmalloc arrays for SLAB and SLUB.
>
> Differentiate between the maximum size for which a slab cache is used
> (KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE) and the maximum allocatable size
> (KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE, KMALLOC_MAX_ORDER).
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
I see the same problem on ARM. I believe it's because of the changes to
the calculation of MALLOC_SHIFT_LOW.
The old code was:
#if defined(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN) && ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN > 8
#define KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
#else
#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB
#define KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE 32
#else
#define KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE 8
#endif
#endif
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW ilog2(KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE)
Here, KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW and KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE are always consistent/related.
The new code is:
#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW 5
...
#if defined(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN) && ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN > 8
#define KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
#else
#define KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE (1 << KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW)
#endif
Here, if defined(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN), then KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE isn't
relative-to/derived-from KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW, so the two may become
inconsistent.
On my ARM system at least, CONFIG_ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_6 is set since I
have an ARMv7 CPU (see arch/arm/mm/Kconfig), which causes
CONFIG_ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6, then:
> arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h:7:#define L1_CACHE_SHIFT CONFIG_ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
> arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h:8:#define L1_CACHE_BYTES (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
> arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h:17:#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
... hence that case triggers.
I also see that in most parts of the patch, SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT was replaced
with (KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH + 1), or equivalently tests were changed from <
to <=:
> - size <= SLUB_MAX_SIZE && !(flags & SLUB_DMA)) {
> + size <= KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE && !(flags & SLUB_DMA)) {
However, the following doesn't seem to have that adjustment:
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index ba2ca53..d0f72ee 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2775,7 +2775,7 @@ init_kmem_cache_node(struct kmem_cache_node *n)
> static inline int alloc_kmem_cache_cpus(struct kmem_cache *s)
> {
> BUILD_BUG_ON(PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE <
> - SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT * sizeof(struct kmem_cache_cpu));
> + KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH * sizeof(struct kmem_cache_cpu));
Should that also be (KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH + 1)?
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