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From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, fthain@linux-m68k.org,
	geert@linux-m68k.org, mhiramat@kernel.org,
	senozhatsky@chromium.org
Cc: lance.yang@linux.dev, amaindex@outlook.com,
	anna.schumaker@oracle.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com,
	ioworker0@gmail.com, joel.granados@kernel.org,
	jstultz@google.com, kent.overstreet@linux.dev,
	leonylgao@tencent.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, longman@redhat.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, mingzhe.yang@ly.com, oak@helsinkinet.fi,
	peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, tfiga@chromium.org,
	will@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] hung_task: fix warnings by enforcing alignment on lock structures
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 15:40:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250823074048.92498-1-lance.yang@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f79735e1-1625-4746-98ce-a3c40123c5af@linux.dev>

From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>

The blocker tracking mechanism assumes that lock pointers are at least
4-byte aligned to use their lower bits for type encoding.

However, as reported by Geert Uytterhoeven, some architectures like m68k
only guarantee 2-byte alignment of 32-bit values. This breaks the
assumption and causes two related WARN_ON_ONCE checks to trigger.

To fix this, enforce a minimum of 4-byte alignment on the core lock
structures supported by the blocker tracking mechanism. This ensures the
algorithm's alignment assumption now holds true on all architectures.

This patch adds __aligned(4) to the definitions of "struct mutex",
"struct semaphore", and "struct rw_semaphore", resolving the warnings.

Thanks to Geert for bisecting!

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdW7Ab13DdGs2acMQcix5ObJK0O2dG_Fxzr8_g58Rc1_0g@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: e711faaafbe5 ("hung_task: replace blocker_mutex with encoded blocker")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
---
 include/linux/mutex_types.h | 2 +-
 include/linux/rwsem.h       | 2 +-
 include/linux/semaphore.h   | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mutex_types.h b/include/linux/mutex_types.h
index fdf7f515fde8..de798bfbc4c7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mutex_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mutex_types.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ struct mutex {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
 	struct lockdep_map	dep_map;
 #endif
-};
+} __aligned(4); /* For hung_task blocker tracking, which encodes type in LSBs */
 
 #else /* !CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT */
 /*
diff --git a/include/linux/rwsem.h b/include/linux/rwsem.h
index f1aaf676a874..f6ecf4a4710d 100644
--- a/include/linux/rwsem.h
+++ b/include/linux/rwsem.h
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ struct rw_semaphore {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
 	struct lockdep_map	dep_map;
 #endif
-};
+} __aligned(4); /* For hung_task blocker tracking, which encodes type in LSBs */
 
 #define RWSEM_UNLOCKED_VALUE		0UL
 #define RWSEM_WRITER_LOCKED		(1UL << 0)
diff --git a/include/linux/semaphore.h b/include/linux/semaphore.h
index 89706157e622..ac9b9c87bfb7 100644
--- a/include/linux/semaphore.h
+++ b/include/linux/semaphore.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ struct semaphore {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK_BLOCKER
 	unsigned long		last_holder;
 #endif
-};
+} __aligned(4); /* For hung_task blocker tracking, which encodes type in LSBs */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK_BLOCKER
 #define __LAST_HOLDER_SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER				\
-- 
2.49.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-08-23  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-14 14:59 [PATCH v5 0/3] hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore Lance Yang
2025-04-14 14:59 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] hung_task: replace blocker_mutex with encoded blocker Lance Yang
2025-04-14 21:36   ` Andrew Morton
2025-04-15  3:44     ` Lance Yang
2025-04-14 14:59 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on semaphore Lance Yang
2025-08-22  7:38   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-08-22 15:18     ` Lance Yang
2025-08-22 15:37       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-08-22 16:42         ` Lance Yang
2025-08-23  0:27           ` Finn Thain
2025-08-23  4:47             ` Lance Yang
2025-08-23  5:00               ` [PATCH 1/1] hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers Lance Yang
2025-08-26  4:49                 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2025-08-26  5:11                   ` Lance Yang
2025-08-23  7:40               ` Lance Yang [this message]
2025-08-23 21:53                 ` [PATCH 1/1] hung_task: fix warnings by enforcing alignment on lock structures kernel test robot
2025-08-24  0:47                   ` Finn Thain
2025-08-24  3:03                     ` Lance Yang
2025-08-24  4:18                       ` Finn Thain
2025-08-24  5:02                         ` Lance Yang
2025-08-24  5:57                           ` Finn Thain
2025-08-24  6:18                             ` Lance Yang
2025-08-26  5:02                 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2025-08-26  5:16                   ` Lance Yang
2025-08-23  7:49               ` [PATCH v5 2/3] hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on semaphore Lance Yang
2025-04-14 14:59 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] samples: extend hung_task detector test with semaphore support Lance Yang
2025-04-14 21:38 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore Andrew Morton

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