Re: dpkg fails on sparc64 (was: [PATCH v4 4/7] mm/thp: Carry over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd) #forregzbot

Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-10-23T13:33:42Z

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On 21.10.22 18:06, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 12:13:28PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
>> Carry over the dirty bit from pmd to pte when a huge pmd splits. It
>> shouldn't be a correctness issue since when pmd_dirty() we'll have the page
>> marked dirty anyway, however having dirty bit carried over helps the next
>> initial writes of split ptes on some archs like x86.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> mm/huge_memory.c | 9 +++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
> Hello!
>
> Tried to update my debian sparc64 sid (unstable) linux distro to latest
> version of available packages, got dpkg segfault...

Thanks for the report. To be sure below issue doesn't fall through the
cracks unnoticed, I'm adding it to regzbot, my Linux kernel regression
tracking bot:

#regzbot ^introduced 0ccf7f168e17bb7
#regzbot title mm: sparc64: dpkg fails on sparc64 since "mm/thp: Carry
over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd)"
#regzbot ignore-activity

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> $ apt update -y
> ...
> Unpacking linux-image-sparc64-smp (6.0.2-1) ...
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.
>
> Downgraded dpkg from 1.21.9 to 1.21.8 / 1.21.7 (2-3 monthes old
> versions) - still getting segfault on package install (which was never
> an issue before, even on this old dpkg versions).
>
> Tried to gdb backtrace core file, which is unlucky :
>
>
> root@ttip:/# apt install -y linux-image-sparc64-smp ccache qemu-utils xdelta qemu-system-x86 distcc qemu-efi-aarch64 pkg-kde-tools
> ...
> Preparing to unpack .../2-linux-image-6.0.0-1-sparc64-smp_6.0.2-1_sparc64.deb ...
> Unpacking linux-image-6.0.0-1-sparc64-smp (6.0.2-1) ...
> Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-sparc64-smp.
> Preparing to unpack .../3-linux-image-sparc64-smp_6.0.2-1_sparc64.deb ...
> Unpacking linux-image-sparc64-smp (6.0.2-1) ...
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.
> root@ttip:/# ls -l core.4751
> -rw------- 1 root root 25042944 Oct 21 14:38 core.4751
> root@ttip:/# gdb -q -c core.4751
> GNU gdb (Debian 12.1-4) 12.1
> [New LWP 4751]
> Core was generated by `/usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 15 --no-triggers --unpack --auto-deconfigure --recurs'.
> Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> #0 0xfff800010089cde4 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0xfff800010089cde4 in ?? ()
> Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> (gdb)
>
>
> rebooted from my compiled kernel 6.1.0-rc1 to older (debian) kernel -
> 5.19.0-2-sparc64-smp
>
> dpkg installed packages without any problems. Removed just installed
> packages, rebooted to 6.1.0-rc1 and tried to install packages, dpkg got
> segfault again.
>
> Recompiled 6.1.0-rc1 with gcc-11 instead of gcc-12, still segfaults...
> ... bisect time ...
>
> mator@ttip:~/linux-2.6$ git bisect log
> # bad: [9abf2313adc1ca1b6180c508c25f22f9395cc780] Linux 6.1-rc1
> # good: [4fe89d07dcc2804c8b562f6c7896a45643d34b2f] Linux 6.0
> git bisect start 'v6.1-rc1' 'v6.0'
> # good: [18fd049731e67651009f316195da9281b756f2cf] Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
> git bisect good 18fd049731e67651009f316195da9281b756f2cf
> # good: [4c540c92b46497dcda59203eea78e4620bc96f47] RISC-V: Add mvendorid, marchid, and mimpid to /proc/cpuinfo output
> git bisect good 4c540c92b46497dcda59203eea78e4620bc96f47
> # bad: [27bc50fc90647bbf7b734c3fc306a5e61350da53] Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> git bisect bad 27bc50fc90647bbf7b734c3fc306a5e61350da53
> # good: [ada3bfb6492a6d0d3eca50f3b61315fe032efc72] Merge tag 'tpmdd-next-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd
> git bisect good ada3bfb6492a6d0d3eca50f3b61315fe032efc72
> # bad: [5f7fa13fa858c17580ed513bd5e0a4b36d68fdd6] mm: add pageblock_align() macro
> git bisect bad 5f7fa13fa858c17580ed513bd5e0a4b36d68fdd6
> # bad: [54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa] Maple Tree: add new data structure
> git bisect bad 54a611b605901c7d5d05b6b8f5d04a6ceb0962aa
> # good: [59298997df89e19aad426d4ae0a7e5037074da5a] x86/uaccess: avoid check_object_size() in copy_from_user_nmi()
> git bisect good 59298997df89e19aad426d4ae0a7e5037074da5a
> # good: [04c6b79ae4f0bcbd96afd7cea5e1a8848162438e] btrfs: convert __process_pages_contig() to use filemap_get_folios_contig()
> git bisect good 04c6b79ae4f0bcbd96afd7cea5e1a8848162438e
> # good: [da29499124cd2221539b235c1f93c7d93faf6565] mm, hwpoison: use __PageMovable() to detect non-lru movable pages
> git bisect good da29499124cd2221539b235c1f93c7d93faf6565
> # bad: [eed9a328aa1ae6ac1edaa026957e6882f57de0dd] mm: x86: add CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG
> git bisect bad eed9a328aa1ae6ac1edaa026957e6882f57de0dd
> # bad: [f347c9d2697fcbbb64e077f7113a3887a181b8c0] filemap: make the accounting of thrashing more consistent
> git bisect bad f347c9d2697fcbbb64e077f7113a3887a181b8c0
> # good: [eba4d770efc86a3710e36b828190858abfa3bb74] mm/swap: comment all the ifdef in swapops.h
> git bisect good eba4d770efc86a3710e36b828190858abfa3bb74
> # bad: [2e3468778dbe3ec389a10c21a703bb8e5be5cfbc] mm: remember young/dirty bit for page migrations
> git bisect bad 2e3468778dbe3ec389a10c21a703bb8e5be5cfbc
> # bad: [0ccf7f168e17bb7eb5a322397ba5a841f4fbaccb] mm/thp: carry over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd
> git bisect bad 0ccf7f168e17bb7eb5a322397ba5a841f4fbaccb
> # good: [0d206b5d2e0d7d7f09ac9540e3ab3e35a34f536e] mm/swap: add swp_offset_pfn() to fetch PFN from swap entry
> git bisect good 0d206b5d2e0d7d7f09ac9540e3ab3e35a34f536e
> # first bad commit: [0ccf7f168e17bb7eb5a322397ba5a841f4fbaccb] mm/thp: carry over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd
>
>
> mator@ttip:~/linux-2.6$ git bisect good
> 0ccf7f168e17bb7eb5a322397ba5a841f4fbaccb is the first bad commit
> commit 0ccf7f168e17bb7eb5a322397ba5a841f4fbaccb
> Author: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu Aug 11 12:13:28 2022 -0400
>
> mm/thp: carry over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd
>
> Carry over the dirty bit from pmd to pte when a huge pmd splits. It
> shouldn't be a correctness issue since when pmd_dirty() we'll have the
> page marked dirty anyway, however having dirty bit carried over helps the
> next initial writes of split ptes on some archs like x86.
>
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220811161331.37055-5-peterx@redhat.com
>
>
>
> So, v6.0-rc3-176-g0d206b5d2e0d) does not segfault dpkg,
> v6.0-rc3-177-g0ccf7f168e17 segfaults it on package install.
>
> dpkg test was (apt) install/remove some packages, segfaults only on install
> (not remove).
>
> Reverted 0ccf7f168e17bb7eb5a322397ba5a841f4fbaccb from top of v6.1-rc1 and
> tried to compile kernel, but got error
>
> mm/huge_memory.c: In function ‘__split_huge_pmd_locked’:
> mm/huge_memory.c:2129:17: error: ‘dirty’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> 2129 | dirty = is_migration_entry_dirty(entry);
> | ^~~~~
> mm/huge_memory.c:2129:17: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:250: mm/huge_memory.o] Error 1
>
> So can't test v6.1-rc1 with patch reverted...