Re: 5.0-rc kernel hangs on early boot

Will Deacon
2019-02-13T11:19:00Z

Hi Yury,

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:25:40AM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> My kernel on qemu/arm64 setup hangs at early boot since v5.0-rc1.
> Backtrace is not too verbose:
> (gdb) i threads
> Id Target Id Frame
> * 1 Thread 1 (CPU#0 [running]) 0xffff000010a49b74 in __delay (cycles=4096)
> at arch/arm64/lib/delay.c:49
> 2 Thread 2 (CPU#1 [halted ]) 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> 3 Thread 3 (CPU#2 [halted ]) 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> 4 Thread 4 (CPU#3 [halted ]) 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0xffff000010a49b74 in __delay (cycles=4096) at arch/arm64/lib/delay.c:49
> Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
>
> Reverting the patch
> 1c30844d2dfe272d58c ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external
> fragmentation event occurs") together with following patch
> 73444bc4d8f92e46a20 ("mm, page_alloc: do not wake kswapd with zone lock held")
> helps me to boot normally.
>
> Some system information is below, and config is attached.

FWIW, running with your command-line and .config under KVM with earlycon
leads to an early page allocation failure followed by a NULL dereference
during boot if only 1G is configured (log below). For the mm folks, it's
probably worth pointing out that you're using 64k pages.

Can you confirm that the kernel boots successfully if you pass more memory to
qemu (e.g. 2gb)?

Will

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[ 0.000000] swapper: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x0(), nodemask=(null),cpuset=(null),mems_allowed=0-3
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.0.0-rc64.9.0+ #1
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[ 0.000000] Call trace:
[ 0.000000] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x178
[ 0.000000] show_stack+0x24/0x30
[ 0.000000] dump_stack+0x90/0xb4
[ 0.000000] warn_alloc+0x100/0x188
[ 0.000000] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xd48/0xd88
[ 0.000000] alloc_pages_current+0x8c/0xf8
[ 0.000000] allocate_slab+0x370/0x4a8
[ 0.000000] new_slab+0x98/0xc0
[ 0.000000] ___slab_alloc+0x27c/0x510
[ 0.000000] __slab_alloc+0x50/0x68
[ 0.000000] kmem_cache_alloc+0x1d0/0x1f8
[ 0.000000] bootstrap+0x34/0x170
[ 0.000000] kmem_cache_init+0x9c/0x130
[ 0.000000] start_kernel+0x240/0x464
[ 0.000000] Mem-Info:
[ 0.000000] active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
[ 0.000000] active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
[ 0.000000] unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
[ 0.000000] slab_reclaimable:0 slab_unreclaimable:1
[ 0.000000] mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
[ 0.000000] free:7737 free_pcp:0 free_cma:0
[ 0.000000] Node 0 active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB shmem:0kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 0kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB all_unreclaimable? no
[ 0.000000] Node 0 DMA32 free:495168kB min:524288kB low:524288kB high:524288kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:1048576kB managed:495232kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB
[ 0.000000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
[ 0.000000] Node 0 DMA32: 1*64kB (U) 4*128kB (U) 2*256kB (U) 3*512kB (U) 3*1024kB (U) 1*2048kB (U) 3*4096kB (U) 2*8192kB (U) 2*16384kB (U) 3*32768kB (U) 3*65536kB (U) 1*131072kB (U) 0*262144kB 0*524288kB = 495168kB
[ 0.000000] 0 total pagecache pages
[ 0.000000] 0 pages in swap cache
[ 0.000000] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
[ 0.000000] Free swap = 0kB
[ 0.000000] Total swap = 0kB
[ 0.000000] 16384 pages RAM
[ 0.000000] 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly
[ 0.000000] 8646 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] 8192 pages cma reserved
[ 0.000000] SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x408000(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
[ 0.000000] cache: kmem_cache, object size: 336, buffer size: 384, default order: 0, min order: 0
[ 0.000000] node 0: slabs: 0, objs: 0, free: 0
[ 0.000000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] Mem abort info:
[ 0.000000] ESR = 0x96000045
[ 0.000000] Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 0.000000] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 0.000000] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 0.000000] Data abort info:
[ 0.000000] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000045
[ 0.000000] CM = 0, WnR = 1
[ 0.000000] [0000000000000000] user address but active_mm is swapper
[ 0.000000] Internal error: Oops: 96000045 [#1] SMP
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.0.0-rc64.9.0+ #1
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[ 0.000000] pstate: 20000085 (nzCv daIf -PAN -UAO)
[ 0.000000] pc : __memcpy+0x110/0x180
[ 0.000000] lr : bootstrap+0x48/0x170
[ 0.000000] sp : ffff00001104ff20
[ 0.000000] x29: ffff00001104ff20 x28: 0000000080ea0018
[ 0.000000] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff000010f80008
[ 0.000000] x23: ffff000010f92490 x22: ffff000011070000
[ 0.000000] x21: ffff000010f92490 x20: ffff000011a1f000
[ 0.000000] x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000010
[ 0.000000] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: 00000000ffffffff
[ 0.000000] x13: 00000000000000aa x12: 000000aa000000aa
[ 0.000000] x11: 0000000d00000000 x10: 0000015000000180
[ 0.000000] x9 : 0000000000000005 x8 : 0000000040002000
[ 0.000000] x7 : ffff000011030e80 x6 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 00000000000000d0
[ 0.000000] x1 : ffff000010f924d0 x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] Process swapper (pid: 0, stack limit = 0x(____ptrval____))
[ 0.000000] Call trace:
[ 0.000000] __memcpy+0x110/0x180
[ 0.000000] kmem_cache_init+0x9c/0x130
[ 0.000000] start_kernel+0x240/0x464
[ 0.000000] Code: a8c12027 a8c12829 a8c1302b a8c1382d (a88120c7)
[ 0.000000] ---[ end trace a6053f496cb6dec0 ]---
[ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
[ 0.000000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---