Re: [PATCH] sparc64: fix hugetlb for sun4u

[David Hildenbrand]

On 09.08.25 08:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> On Sat, 2025-08-09 at 00:37 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > Maybe try enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_IRQSOFF, CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, and perhaps
> > > CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS. That might help detect a problem closer to the
> > > source. You can also try adding transparent_hugepage=never to the kernel
> > > boot line to see if compiling in THP support but not using it is okay.
> >
> > OK, I will try that. But not today anymore. It's half past midnight now here in Germany
> > and I was debugging this issue almost all day long. I'm glad to have finally been able
> > to track this down to THP support being enabled.
> >
> > Maybe you can try whether you can reproduce this in QEMU as well.
>
> OK, first data point: Setting CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER=y causes the backtrace during
> boot to disappear with CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y. However, it still disappears later when
> running "apt update && apt -y upgrade" again:

Just to give some context: (m)THPs in file systems will get used 
independently of CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER=y.

So CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER=y primarily only controls usage of 
(m)THPs for anonymous memory, but not in the pagecache.


> [  170.472743] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:1174!
> [  170.532313]               \|/ ____ \|/
>                               "@'/ .. \`@"
>                               /_| \__/ |_\
>                                  \__U_/

Is this the

BUG_ON(to > folio_size(folio));

?

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb