mm/slab: fix unalignment problem on Malta with EVA due to slab merge
authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 23:19:25 +0000 (15:19 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:17:05 +0000 (16:17 -0800)
Unlike SLUB, sometimes, object isn't started at the beginning of the
slab in SLAB.  This causes the unalignment problem after slab merging is
supported by commit 12220dea07f1 ("mm/slab: support slab merge").

Following is the report from Markos that fail to boot on Malta with EVA.

    Calibrating delay loop... 19.86 BogoMIPS (lpj=99328)
    pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
    Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 0, 16384 bytes)
    Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 0, 16384 bytes)
    Kernel bug detected[#1]:
    CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.17.0-05639-g12220dea07f1 #1631
    task: 1f04f5d8 ti: 1f050000 task.ti: 1f050000
    epc   : 80141190 alloc_unbound_pwq+0x234/0x304
        Not tainted
    ra    : 80141184 alloc_unbound_pwq+0x228/0x304
    Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, threadinfo=1f050000, task=1f04f5d8, tls=00000000)
    Call Trace:
      alloc_unbound_pwq+0x234/0x304
      apply_workqueue_attrs+0x11c/0x294
      __alloc_workqueue_key+0x23c/0x470
      init_workqueues+0x320/0x400
      do_one_initcall+0xe8/0x23c
      kernel_init_freeable+0x9c/0x224
      kernel_init+0x10/0x100
      ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
    [ end trace cb88537fdc8fa200 ]
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

alloc_unbound_pwq() allocates slab object from pool_workqueue.  This
kmem_cache requires 256 bytes alignment, but, current merging code
doesn't honor that, and merge it with kmalloc-256.  kmalloc-256 requires
only cacheline size alignment so that above failure occurs.  However, in
x86, kmalloc-256 is luckily aligned in 256 bytes, so the problem didn't
happen on it.

To fix this problem, this patch introduces alignment mismatch check in
find_mergeable().  This will fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reported-by: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slab_common.c

index 4069442..dcdab81 100644 (file)
@@ -259,6 +259,10 @@ struct kmem_cache *find_mergeable(size_t size, size_t align,
                if (s->size - size >= sizeof(void *))
                        continue;
 
+               if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLAB) && align &&
+                       (align > s->align || s->align % align))
+                       continue;
+
                return s;
        }
        return NULL;