Re: linux-next: Tree for Nov 5

[Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 14:54, Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 10:36, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 8:50 AM Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > > > > When building an arm64 allmodconfig and booting up that in qemu I see
> > > > >
> > > > > [10011.092394][   T28] task:kworker/0:2     state:D stack:26896 pid:
> > > > > 1840 ppid:     2 flags:0x00000428
> > > > > [10022.368093][   T28] Workqueue: events toggle_allocation_gate
> > > > > [10024.827549][   T28] Call trace:
> > > > > [10027.152494][   T28]  __switch_to+0x1cc/0x1e0
> > > > > [10031.378073][   T28]  __schedule+0x730/0x800
> > > > > [10032.164468][   T28]  schedule+0xd8/0x160
> > > > > [10033.886807][   T28]  toggle_allocation_gate+0x16c/0x220
> > > > > [10038.477987][   T28]  process_one_work+0x5c0/0x980
> > > > > [10039.900075][   T28]  worker_thread+0x428/0x720
> > > > > [10042.782911][   T28]  kthread+0x23c/0x260
> > > > > [10043.171725][   T28]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> > > > > [10046.227741][   T28] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
> > > > > [10047.732220][   T28] Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks
> > > > > [10047.741785][   T28] CPU: 0 PID: 28 Comm: khungtaskd Tainted: G
> > > > >   W         5.10.0-rc2-next-20201105-00006-g7af110e4d8ed #1
> > > > > [10047.755348][   T28] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> > > > > [10047.763476][   T28] Call trace:
> > > > > [10047.769802][   T28]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x420
> > > > > [10047.777104][   T28]  show_stack+0x38/0xa0
> > > > > [10047.784177][   T28]  dump_stack+0x1d4/0x278
> > > > > [10047.791362][   T28]  panic+0x304/0x5d8
> > > > > [10047.798202][   T28]  check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks+0x5e4/0x640
> > > > > [10047.807056][   T28]  watchdog+0x138/0x160
> > > > > [10047.814140][   T28]  kthread+0x23c/0x260
> > > > > [10047.821130][   T28]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> > > > > [10047.829181][   T28] Kernel Offset: disabled
> > > > > [10047.836274][   T28] CPU features: 0x0240002,20002004
> > > > > [10047.844070][   T28] Memory Limit: none
> > > > > [10047.853599][   T28] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task:
> > > > > blocked tasks ]---
> > > > >
> > > > > if I build with KFENCE=n it boots up eventually, here's my .config file [2].
> > > > >
> > > > > Any idea what may happen?
> > > > >
> > > > > it happens on next-20201109 also, but it takes longer until we get the
> > > > > "Call trace:".
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Anders
> > > > > [1] http://ix.io/2Ddv
> > > > > [2] https://people.linaro.org/~anders.roxell/allmodconfig-next-20201105.config
> [...]
> > > oh I missed to say that this is the full boot log with the kernel
> > > panic http://ix.io/2Ddv
> >
> > Thanks!
> > The last messages before the hang are:
> >
> > [ 1367.791522][    T1] Running tests on all trace events:
> > [ 1367.815307][    T1] Testing all events:
> >
> > I can imagine tracing somehow interferes with kfence.
>
> The reason is simply that that config on qemu is so slow (enabling
> lockdep helped), and the test that is running doesn't result in
> allocations for an extended time. Because of that our wait_event()
> just stalls, as there are no allocations coming in. My guess is that
> this scenario is unique to early boot, where we are not yet running
> user space, paired with running a selftest that results in no
> allocations for some time.
>
> Try and give that a spin:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110135320.3309507-1-elver@google.com

Thank you Marco.
I'll give it a spin and reply to that thread if it works or not.

Cheers,
Anders