On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:11:53PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:31:56PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote: > > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 08:56:02AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > > > On Wed, 12 May 2021 13:29:52 -0700 akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > > > The patch titled > > > > Subject: mm/vmalloc: print a warning message first on failure > > > > has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was > > > > mm-vmalloc-print-a-warning-message-first-on-failure.patch > > > > > > > > This patch was dropped because it had testing failures > > > > > > Removed from linux-next. > > > > > What can of testing failures does it trigger? Where can i find the > > details, logs or tracers of it? > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20210512175359.17793d34@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > Thanks, Mel. OK. Now i see. The problem is with this patch: mm/vmalloc: switch to bulk allocator in __vmalloc_area_node() <snip> [ 0.097819][ T1] BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0x200000c0a [ 0.098533][ T1] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000003f6fa0 [ 0.099044][ T1] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [ 0.099182][ T1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries [ 0.099506][ T1] Modules linked in: [ 0.099896][ T1] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc1-00142-g6053672bb612 #12 [ 0.100254][ T1] NIP: c0000000003f6fa0 LR: c0000000003f6f68 CTR: 0000000000000000 [ 0.100342][ T1] REGS: c0000000063a3480 TRAP: 0380 Not tainted (5.13.0-rc1-00142-g6053672bb612) [ 0.100550][ T1] MSR: 8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24402840 XER: 00000000 [ 0.100900][ T1] CFAR: c0000000003f6f7c IRQMASK: 0 [ 0.100900][ T1] GPR00: c0000000003f6f68 c0000000063a3720 c00000000146b100 0000000000000000 [ 0.100900][ T1] GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 [ 0.100900][ T1] GPR08: c0000000015219e8 0000000000000000 0000000200000c02 c000000006030010 [ 0.100900][ T1] GPR12: 0000000000008000 c000000001640000 0000000000000001 c000000000262f84 [ 0.100900][ T1] GPR16: c00a000000000000 c008000000000000 0000000000000dc0 0000000000000008 [ 0.100900][ T1] GPR20: 0000000000000522 0000000000010000 0000000000000cc0 c008000000000000 [ 0.100900][ T1] GPR24: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000002cc2 0000000000000000 [ 0.100900][ T1] GPR28: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000200000c02 0000000000002cc2 [ 0.101927][ T1] NIP [c0000000003f6fa0] __alloc_pages+0x140/0x3f0 [ 0.102733][ T1] LR [c0000000003f6f68] __alloc_pages+0x108/0x3f0 [ 0.103032][ T1] Call Trace: [ 0.103165][ T1] [c0000000063a3720] [0000000000000900] 0x900 (unreliable) [ 0.103616][ T1] [c0000000063a37b0] [c0000000003f7810] __alloc_pages_bulk+0x5c0/0x840 [ 0.103787][ T1] [c0000000063a3890] [c0000000003ecf74] __vmalloc_node_range+0x4c4/0x600 [ 0.103871][ T1] [c0000000063a39b0] [c00000000004f598] module_alloc+0x58/0x70 [ 0.103962][ T1] [c0000000063a3a20] [c000000000262f84] alloc_insn_page+0x24/0x40 [ 0.104046][ T1] [c0000000063a3a40] [c00000000026629c] __get_insn_slot+0x1dc/0x280 [ 0.104143][ T1] [c0000000063a3a80] [c00000000005770c] arch_prepare_kprobe+0x15c/0x1f0 [ 0.104290][ T1] [c0000000063a3b00] [c000000000267880] register_kprobe+0x6d0/0x850 [ 0.104392][ T1] [c0000000063a3b60] [c00000000108fe2c] arch_init_kprobes+0x28/0x3c [ 0.104524][ T1] [c0000000063a3b80] [c0000000010addb0] init_kprobes+0x120/0x174 [ 0.104629][ T1] [c0000000063a3bf0] [c000000000012190] do_one_initcall+0x60/0x2c0 [ 0.104722][ T1] [c0000000063a3cc0] [c0000000010845a0] kernel_init_freeable+0x1bc/0x3a0 [ 0.104826][ T1] [c0000000063a3da0] [c000000000012764] kernel_init+0x2c/0x168 [ 0.104911][ T1] [c0000000063a3e10] [c00000000000d5ec] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x70 [ 0.105178][ T1] Instruction dump: [ 0.105516][ T1] 40920018 57e9efbe 2c090001 4082000c 63050080 78b80020 e8a10028 57e9a7fe [ 0.105759][ T1] 7fcaf378 99210040 2c250000 408201f4 <813e0008> 7c09c840 418101e8 57e50528 [ 0.107188][ T1] ---[ end trace 9bd7c2fac4d061e2 ]--- [ 0.107319][ T1] [ 1.108818][ T1] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b <snip> So during the boot process when the module is about to be loaded, the vmalloc allocation gets failed in the __alloc_pages_bulk(). Will try to reproduce. It would be good to get a kernel config. Appreciate for any thoughts about it? Thanks! -- Vlad Rezki
