Re: Regression on ARMs in next-20170531

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> [170531 10:47]:
> I don't have a similarly configured kernel, but here I have for the
> start of this function:
> 
> 00000680 <__mod_node_page_state>:
>      680:       e1a0c00d        mov     ip, sp
>      684:       e92dd870        push    {r4, r5, r6, fp, ip, lr, pc}
>      688:       e24cb004        sub     fp, ip, #4
>      68c:       e590cc00        ldr     ip, [r0, #3072] ; 0xc00
>      690:       e1a0400d        mov     r4, sp
>      694:       ee1d6f90        mrc     15, 0, r6, cr13, cr0, {4}
>      698:       e08c5001        add     r5, ip, r1
>      69c:       e2855001        add     r5, r5, #1
>      6a0:       e1a03005        mov     r3, r5
>      6a4:       e196c0dc        ldrsb   ip, [r6, ip]
>      6a8:       e19630d3        ldrsb   r3, [r6, r3]
> 
> r5 in your code is the equivalent of r6, r4 => r3, r3 -> r5.
> lr is the __per_cpu_offset array, so the first instruction is
> trying to load the percpu offset.
> 
> The faulting code is:
> 
>         x = delta + __this_cpu_read(*p);
> 
> specifically "__this_cpu_read(*p)".
> 
> "ip" holds "pcp" from:
> 
>         struct per_cpu_nodestat __percpu *pcp = pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats;
> 
> and you may notice that it's zero in the register dump.  So,
> pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats is NULL here.
> 
> This seems to be setup in setup_per_cpu_pageset(), which in the init
> order, happens way after mm_init() (which contains kmem_cache_init()).

OK thanks, so that should help :)

> So, looks to me like an init ordering bug.  I'm not sure why SMP
> would be working - maybe its only working because it's managing to
> scribble over some memory that isn't faulting?  I suspect a
> WARN_ON(!pcp) here will report even on SMP.

The other way around, CONFIG_SMP=y is not booting, disabling
it boots.

Regards,

Tony