Re: qemu-arm64: CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES=y kernel crash on qemu-arm64 with Linux next-20241210 and above

Dan Carpenter
2024-12-19T15:11:01Z

On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 10:44:12AM +1030, Qu Wenruo wrote:
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> 在 2024/12/19 06:37, Qu Wenruo 写道:
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> > 在 2024/12/19 02:22, Naresh Kamboju 写道:
> > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 at 17:33, Naresh Kamboju
> > > <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The following kernel crash noticed on qemu-arm64 while running the
> > > > Linux next-20241210 tag (to next-20241218) kernel built with
> > > >   - CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES=y
> > > >   - CONFIG_ARM64_16K_PAGES=y
> > > > and running LTP smoke tests.
> > > >
> > > > First seen on Linux next-20241210.
> > > >    Good: next-20241209
> > > >    Bad:  next-20241210 and next-20241218
> > > >
> > > > qemu-arm64: 9.1.2
> > > >
> > > > Anyone noticed this ?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Anders bisected this reported regression and found,
> > > # first bad commit:
> > >    [9c1d66793b6faa00106ae4c866359578bfc012d2]
> > >    btrfs: validate system chunk array at btrfs_validate_super()
> >
> > Weird, I run daily fstests with 64K page sized aarch64 VM.
> >
> > But never hit a crash on this.
> >
> > And the original crash call trace only points back to ext4, not btrfs.
> >

Yeah. But it's in the memory allocator so it looks like memory
corruption. After the ext4 crash then random other stuff starts
crashing as well when it allocates memory.

> > Mind to test it with KASAN enabled?
>

Anders is going to try that later and report back.

> Another thing is, how do you enable both 16K and 64K page size at the
> same time?
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> The Kconfig should only select one page size IIRC.

Right. We tested 4k, 16k and 64k. 4k pages worked.

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> And for the bisection, does it focus on the test failure or the crash?
>

The crash.

regards,
dan carpenter