From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: <will@kernel.org>, <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
<ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>, <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
<dvyukov@google.com>, <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
<elver@google.com>, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
<kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] arm64: support page mapping percpu first chunk allocator
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 14:36:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211010143622.18f491df5591d039cda8f7b7@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210910053354.26721-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 13:33:51 +0800 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> wrote:
> Percpu embedded first chunk allocator is the firstly option, but it
> could fails on ARM64, eg,
> "percpu: max_distance=0x5fcfdc640000 too large for vmalloc space 0x781fefff0000"
> "percpu: max_distance=0x600000540000 too large for vmalloc space 0x7dffb7ff0000"
> "percpu: max_distance=0x5fff9adb0000 too large for vmalloc space 0x5dffb7ff0000"
>
> then we could meet "WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 461 at vmalloc.c:3087 pcpu_get_vm_areas+0x488/0x838",
> even the system could not boot successfully.
>
> Let's implement page mapping percpu first chunk allocator as a fallback
> to the embedding allocator to increase the robustness of the system.
>
> Also fix a crash when both NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK and KASAN_VMALLOC enabled.
How serious are these problems in real-world situations? Do people
feel that a -stable backport is needed, or is a 5.16-rc1 merge
sufficient?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-10 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-10 5:33 [PATCH v4 0/3] arm64: support page mapping percpu first chunk allocator Kefeng Wang
2021-09-10 5:33 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] vmalloc: Choose a better start address in vm_area_register_early() Kefeng Wang
2021-10-12 18:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-09-10 5:33 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] arm64: Support page mapping percpu first chunk allocator Kefeng Wang
2021-09-17 6:24 ` Greg KH
2021-09-17 6:55 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-09-17 7:04 ` Greg KH
2021-09-17 7:24 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-09-10 5:33 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] kasan: arm64: Fix pcpu_page_first_chunk crash with KASAN_VMALLOC Kefeng Wang
2021-10-12 18:17 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-10-13 1:09 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-09-15 8:33 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] arm64: support page mapping percpu first chunk allocator Kefeng Wang
2021-09-16 15:41 ` Greg KH
2021-09-17 1:11 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-09-17 6:24 ` Greg KH
2021-09-28 7:48 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-10-08 13:33 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-10-10 21:36 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2021-10-11 1:09 ` Kefeng Wang
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