Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Oct 2022 22:30:24 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of kmalloc | From | Vlastimil Babka <> |
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On 10/30/22 20:23, John Thomson wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2022, at 06:54, Feng Tang wrote: >> kmalloc's API family is critical for mm, with one nature that it will >> round up the request size to a fixed one (mostly power of 2). Say >> when user requests memory for '2^n + 1' bytes, actually 2^(n+1) bytes >> could be allocated, so in worst case, there is around 50% memory >> space waste. > > > I have a ralink mt7621 router running Openwrt, using the mips ZBOOT kernel, and appear to have bisected > a very-nearly-clean kernel v6.1rc-2 boot issue to this commit. > I have 3 commits atop 6.1-rc2: fix a ZBOOT compile error, use the Openwrt LZMA options, > and enable DEBUG_ZBOOT for my platform. I am compiling my kernel within the Openwrt build system. > No guarantees this is not due to something I am doing wrong, but any insight would be greatly appreciated. > > > On UART, No indication of the (once extracted) kernel booting: > > transfer started ......................................... transfer ok, time=2.01s > setting up elf image... OK > jumping to kernel code > zimage at: 80BA4100 810D4720 > Uncompressing Linux at load address 80001000 > Copy device tree to address 80B96EE0 > Now, booting the kernel...
It's weird that the commit would cause no output so early, SLUB code is run only later.
> Nothing follows > > 6edf2576a6cc ("mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of kmalloc") reverted, normal boot: > transfer started ......................................... transfer ok, time=2.01s > setting up elf image... OK > jumping to kernel code > zimage at: 80BA4100 810D47A4 > Uncompressing Linux at load address 80001000 > Copy device tree to address 80B96EE0 > Now, booting the kernel... > > [ 0.000000] Linux version 6.1.0-rc2 (john@john) (mipsel-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc (OpenWrt GCC 11.3.0 r19724+16-1521d5f453) 11.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.37) #0 SMP Fri Oct 28 03:48:10 2022 > [ 0.000000] SoC Type: MediaTek MT7621 ver:1 eco:3 > [ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [early0] enabled > [ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 0001992f (MIPS 1004Kc) > [ 0.000000] MIPS: machine is MikroTik RouterBOARD 760iGS > [ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd > [ 0.000000] VPE topology {2,2} total 4 > [ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 32kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes. > [ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, PIPT, no aliases, linesize 32 bytes > [ 0.000000] MIPS secondary cache 256kB, 8-way, linesize 32 bytes. > [ 0.000000] Zone ranges: > [ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000fffffff] > [ 0.000000] HighMem empty > [ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node > [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges > [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000fffffff] > [ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000fffffff] > [ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 11 pages/cpu s16064 r8192 d20800 u45056 > [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 64960 > [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 > [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear) > [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear) > [ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00019146 > [ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00019146 > [ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off > [ 0.000000] Memory: 246220K/262144K available (7455K kernel code, 628K rwdata, 1308K rodata, 3524K init, 245K bss, 15924K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 0K highmem) > [ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1 > [ 0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation. > > > boot continues as expected > > > possibly relevant config options: > grep -E '(SLUB|SLAB)' .config > # SLAB allocator options > # CONFIG_SLAB is not set > CONFIG_SLUB=y > CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT=y > # CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM is not set > # CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED is not set > # CONFIG_SLUB_STATS is not set > CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL=y > # end of SLAB allocator options > # CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is not set
Also not having CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG enabled means most of the code the patch/commit touches is not even active. Could this be some miscompile or code layout change exposing some different bug, hmm. Is it any different if you do enable CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG ? Or change to CONFIG_SLAB? (that would be really weird if not)
> > With this commit reverted: cpuinfo and meminfo > > system type : MediaTek MT7621 ver:1 eco:3 > machine : MikroTik RouterBOARD 760iGS > processor : 0 > cpu model : MIPS 1004Kc V2.15 > BogoMIPS : 586.13 > wait instruction : yes > microsecond timers : yes > tlb_entries : 32 > extra interrupt vector : yes > hardware watchpoint : yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0ffc, 0x0ffc, 0x0ffb, 0x0ffb] > isa : mips1 mips2 mips32r1 mips32r2 > ASEs implemented : mips16 dsp mt > Options implemented : tlb 4kex 4k_cache prefetch mcheck ejtag llsc pindexed_dcache userlocal vint perf_cntr_intr_bit cdmm perf > shadow register sets : 1 > kscratch registers : 0 > package : 0 > core : 0 > VPE : 0 > VCED exceptions : not available > VCEI exceptions : not available > > processor : 1 > cpu model : MIPS 1004Kc V2.15 > BogoMIPS : 586.13 > wait instruction : yes > microsecond timers : yes > tlb_entries : 32 > extra interrupt vector : yes > hardware watchpoint : yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0ffc, 0x0ffc, 0x0ffb, 0x0ffb] > isa : mips1 mips2 mips32r1 mips32r2 > ASEs implemented : mips16 dsp mt > Options implemented : tlb 4kex 4k_cache prefetch mcheck ejtag llsc pindexed_dcache userlocal vint perf_cntr_intr_bit cdmm perf > shadow register sets : 1 > kscratch registers : 0 > package : 0 > core : 0 > VPE : 1 > VCED exceptions : not available > VCEI exceptions : not available > > processor : 2 > cpu model : MIPS 1004Kc V2.15 > BogoMIPS : 586.13 > wait instruction : yes > microsecond timers : yes > tlb_entries : 32 > extra interrupt vector : yes > hardware watchpoint : yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0ffc, 0x0ffc, 0x0ffb, 0x0ffb] > isa : mips1 mips2 mips32r1 mips32r2 > ASEs implemented : mips16 dsp mt > Options implemented : tlb 4kex 4k_cache prefetch mcheck ejtag llsc pindexed_dcache userlocal vint perf_cntr_intr_bit cdmm perf > shadow register sets : 1 > kscratch registers : 0 > package : 0 > core : 1 > VPE : 0 > VCED exceptions : not available > VCEI exceptions : not available > > processor : 3 > cpu model : MIPS 1004Kc V2.15 > BogoMIPS : 586.13 > wait instruction : yes > microsecond timers : yes > tlb_entries : 32 > extra interrupt vector : yes > hardware watchpoint : yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0ffc, 0x0ffc, 0x0ffb, 0x0ffb] > isa : mips1 mips2 mips32r1 mips32r2 > ASEs implemented : mips16 dsp mt > Options implemented : tlb 4kex 4k_cache prefetch mcheck ejtag llsc pindexed_dcache userlocal vint perf_cntr_intr_bit cdmm perf > shadow register sets : 1 > kscratch registers : 0 > package : 0 > core : 1 > VPE : 1 > VCED exceptions : not available > VCEI exceptions : not available > > MemTotal: 249744 kB > MemFree: 211088 kB > MemAvailable: 187364 kB > Buffers: 0 kB > Cached: 8824 kB > SwapCached: 0 kB > Active: 1104 kB > Inactive: 8860 kB > Active(anon): 1104 kB > Inactive(anon): 8860 kB > Active(file): 0 kB > Inactive(file): 0 kB > Unevictable: 0 kB > Mlocked: 0 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 249744 kB > LowFree: 211088 kB > SwapTotal: 0 kB > SwapFree: 0 kB > Dirty: 0 kB > Writeback: 0 kB > AnonPages: 1192 kB > Mapped: 2092 kB > Shmem: 8824 kB > KReclaimable: 1704 kB > Slab: 9372 kB > SReclaimable: 1704 kB > SUnreclaim: 7668 kB > KernelStack: 592 kB > PageTables: 264 kB > SecPageTables: 0 kB > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB > Bounce: 0 kB > WritebackTmp: 0 kB > CommitLimit: 124872 kB > Committed_AS: 14676 kB > VmallocTotal: 1040376 kB > VmallocUsed: 2652 kB > VmallocChunk: 0 kB > Percpu: 272 kB > > > Cheers, >
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