Re: [linus:master] [mm, slub] 0af8489b02: kernel_BUG_at_include/linux/mm.h

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 1/10/23 14:53, Oliver Sang wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 10:01:15PM +0800, Oliver Sang wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 11:13:15AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> 
>> > And if the rate at the parent (has it increased thanks to the
>> > DEBUG_PAGEALLOC?) is sufficient to bisect to the truly first bad commit. Thanks!
>> 
>> got it. Thanks for suggestion!
>> 
>> since 0af8489b02 is based on v6.1-rc2, we will test (both rectorture and boot)
>> with same config upon v6.1-rc2 to see if it's really clean there.
>> if so we will use dmesg.invalid_opcode:#[##] to trigger new bisect.
>> 
>> will keep you updated. Thanks
> 
> by more tests, we cannot make sure the v6.1-rc2 is clean, so we also checked
> v6.1-rc1 and v6.0. from results, we have low confidence that we can make a
> successful bisection based on them [1][2]. could you suggest?

So am I reading it right, that the probleam appears to be introduced between
v6.0 (0 failures) and v6.1-rc1 (>0 failures)? But agree that with such low
incidence, it's hard to bisect.

> a further information not sure if it's helpful, [1][2] are both i386 based.
> we also tried to run boot tests on x86_64 upon commit 0af8489b02, whatever
> with or without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC/CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT,
> we never obseve similar issues (also run 999 times).

Yeah it looks very much like something that manifests only on i386 (perhaps
only in QEMU as well?) and never x86_64.

What might be interesting then is v6.1-rc1 with further modified config to
enabled CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON. Maybe it will catch the
culprit sooner. Or maybe it will obscure the bug instead, unfortunately.

Thanks for all your effort!

> [1]
> boot results:
> =========================================================================================
> compiler/kconfig/rootfs/sleep/tbox_group/testcase:
>   gcc-11/i386-randconfig-a012-20221226+CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC+CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT/debian-11.1-i386-20220923.cgz/1/vm-snb/boot
> 
>             v6.0                    v6.1-rc1                    v6.1-rc2 56d5a2b9ba85a390473e86b4fe4 0af8489b0216fa1dd83e264bef8
> ---------------- --------------------------- --------------------------- --------------------------- ---------------------------
>        fail:runs  %reproduction    fail:runs  %reproduction    fail:runs  %reproduction    fail:runs  %reproduction    fail:runs
>            |             |             |             |             |             |             |             |             |
>            :999          0%           2:999          0%           1:999          1%          11:999         21%         208:999   dmesg.invalid_opcode:#[##]
>            :999          0%            :999          0%            :999          0%           2:999          5%          51:999   dmesg.kernel_BUG_at_include/linux/mm.h
>            :999          0%           1:999          0%            :999          0%           4:999          4%          40:999   dmesg.kernel_BUG_at_include/linux/page-flags.h
>            :999          0%           1:999          0%           1:999          0%           4:999         11%         111:999   dmesg.kernel_BUG_at_lib/list_debug.c
>            :999          0%            :999          0%            :999          0%            :999          0%           2:999   dmesg.kernel_BUG_at_mm/page_alloc.c
>            :999          0%            :999          0%            :999          0%           1:999          0%           3:999   dmesg.kernel_BUG_at_mm/usercopy.c
> 
> [2]
> rcutorture results:
> =========================================================================================
> compiler/kconfig/rootfs/runtime/tbox_group/test/testcase/torture_type:
>   gcc-11/i386-randconfig-a012-20221226+CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC+CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT/debian-11.1-i386-20220923.cgz/300s/vm-snb/default/rcutorture/tasks-tracing
> 
>             v6.0                    v6.1-rc1                    v6.1-rc2 56d5a2b9ba85a390473e86b4fe4 0af8489b0216fa1dd83e264bef8
> ---------------- --------------------------- --------------------------- --------------------------- ---------------------------
>        fail:runs  %reproduction    fail:runs  %reproduction    fail:runs  %reproduction    fail:runs  %reproduction    fail:runs
>            |             |             |             |             |             |             |             |             |
>            :999          0%           3:999          0%            :999          1%           8:998         20%         200:999   dmesg.invalid_opcode:#[##]
>            :999          0%            :999          0%            :999          0%            :998          5%          51:999   dmesg.kernel_BUG_at_include/linux/mm.h
>            :999          0%            :999          0%            :999          0%           3:998          4%          42:999   dmesg.kernel_BUG_at_include/linux/page-flags.h
>            :999          0%           3:999          0%            :999          0%           4:998         10%         102:999   dmesg.kernel_BUG_at_lib/list_debug.c
>            :999          0%            :999          0%            :999          0%            :998          0%           2:999   dmesg.kernel_BUG_at_mm/page_alloc.c
>            :999          0%            :999          0%            :999          0%           1:998          0%           3:999   dmesg.kernel_BUG_at_mm/usercopy.c
> 
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