Boot failure on emev2/kzm9d (was: Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache)

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 12:08:59PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:01:35PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim at lge.com> wrote:
> > > Could you try below patch to check who causes the hang?
> > >
> > > And, if sysalt-t works when hang, could you get sysalt-t output? I haven't
> > > used it before but Paul could find some culprit on it. :)
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----->8-----
> > > diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> > > index 763096a..9652d38 100644
> > > --- a/mm/slab.c
> > > +++ b/mm/slab.c
> > > @@ -964,8 +964,13 @@ static int setup_kmem_cache_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> > >          * guaranteed to be valid until irq is re-enabled, because it will be
> > >          * freed after synchronize_sched().
> > >          */
> > > -       if (force_change)
> > > +       if (force_change) {
> > > +               if (num_online_cpus() > 1)
> > > +                       dump_stack();
> > >                 synchronize_sched();
> > > +               if (num_online_cpus() > 1)
> > > +                       dump_stack();
> > > +       }
> > 
> > I've only added the first one, as I would never see the second one. All of
> > this happens before the serial console is activated, earlycon is not supported,
> > and I only have remote access.
> > 
> > Brought up 2 CPUs
> > SMP: Total of 2 processors activated (2132.00 BogoMIPS).
> > CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
> > CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
> > 4.7.0-rc4-kzm9d-00404-g4a235e6dde4404dd-dirty #89
> > Hardware name: Generic Emma Mobile EV2 (Flattened Device Tree)
> > [<c010de68>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010a658>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> > [<c010a658>] (show_stack) from [<c02b5cf8>] (dump_stack+0x7c/0x9c)
> > [<c02b5cf8>] (dump_stack) from [<c01cfa4c>] (setup_kmem_cache_node+0x140/0x170)
> > [<c01cfa4c>] (setup_kmem_cache_node) from [<c01cfe3c>]
> > (__do_tune_cpucache+0xf4/0x114)
> > [<c01cfe3c>] (__do_tune_cpucache) from [<c01cff54>] (enable_cpucache+0xf8/0x148)
> > [<c01cff54>] (enable_cpucache) from [<c01d0190>]
> > (__kmem_cache_create+0x1a8/0x1d0)
> > [<c01d0190>] (__kmem_cache_create) from [<c01b32d0>]
> > (kmem_cache_create+0xbc/0x190)
> > [<c01b32d0>] (kmem_cache_create) from [<c070d968>] (shmem_init+0x34/0xb0)
> > [<c070d968>] (shmem_init) from [<c0700cc8>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x98/0x1ec)
> > [<c0700cc8>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c049fdbc>] (kernel_init+0x8/0x110)
> > [<c049fdbc>] (kernel_init) from [<c0106cb8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
> > devtmpfs: initialized
> 
> I don't see anything here that would prevent grace periods from completing.
> 
> The CPUs are using the normal hotplug sequence to come online, correct?

And either way, could you please apply the patch below and then
invoke rcu_dump_rcu_sched_tree() just before the offending call to
synchronize_sched()?  That will tell me what CPUs RCU believes exist,
and perhaps also which CPU is holding it up.

							Thanx, Paul