Re: [PATCH -next] arm64/mm: fix a bogus GFP flag in pgd_alloc()

Will Deacon
2019-06-17T16:36:30Z

Hi Mike,

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 06:12:52PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Andrew, can you please add the patch below as an incremental fix?
>
> With this the arm64::pgd_alloc() should be in the right shape.
>
>
> From 1c1ef0bc04c655689c6c527bd03b140251399d87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:37:43 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] arm64/mm: don't initialize pgd_cache twice
>
> When PGD_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE, arm64 uses kmem_cache for allocation of PGD
> memory. That cache was initialized twice: first through
> pgtable_cache_init() alias and then as an override for weak
> pgd_cache_init().
>
> After enabling accounting for the PGD memory, this created a confusion for
> memcg and slub sysfs code which resulted in the following errors:
>
> [ 90.608597] kobject_add_internal failed for pgd_cache(13:init.scope) (error: -2 parent: cgroup)
> [ 90.678007] kobject_add_internal failed for pgd_cache(13:init.scope) (error: -2 parent: cgroup)
> [ 90.713260] kobject_add_internal failed for pgd_cache(21:systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service) (error: -2 parent: cgroup)
>
> Removing the alias from pgtable_cache_init() and keeping the only pgd_cache
> initialization in pgd_cache_init() resolves the problem and allows
> accounting of PGD memory.
>
> Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 3 +--
> arch/arm64/mm/pgd.c | 5 +----
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Looks like this actually fixes caa841360134 ("x86/mm: Initialize PGD cache
during mm initialization") due to an unlucky naming conflict!

In which case, I'd actually prefer to take this fix asap via the arm64
tree. Is that ok?

Will