Unlike SLUB, sometimes, object isn't started at the beginning of the
slab in SLAB. This causes the unalignment problem after slab merging is
supported by commit 12220dea07 ("mm/slab: support slab merge").
Following is the report from Markos that fail to boot on Malta with EVA.
Calibrating delay loop... 19.86 BogoMIPS (lpj=99328)
pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 0, 16384 bytes)
Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 0, 16384 bytes)
Kernel bug detected[#1]:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.17.0-05639-g12220dea07f1 #1631
task: 1f04f5d8 ti: 1f050000 task.ti: 1f050000
epc : 80141190 alloc_unbound_pwq+0x234/0x304
Not tainted
ra : 80141184 alloc_unbound_pwq+0x228/0x304
Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, threadinfo=1f050000, task=1f04f5d8, tls=00000000)
Call Trace:
alloc_unbound_pwq+0x234/0x304
apply_workqueue_attrs+0x11c/0x294
__alloc_workqueue_key+0x23c/0x470
init_workqueues+0x320/0x400
do_one_initcall+0xe8/0x23c
kernel_init_freeable+0x9c/0x224
kernel_init+0x10/0x100
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
[ end trace cb88537fdc8fa200 ]
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
alloc_unbound_pwq() allocates slab object from pool_workqueue. This
kmem_cache requires 256 bytes alignment, but, current merging code
doesn't honor that, and merge it with kmalloc-256. kmalloc-256 requires
only cacheline size alignment so that above failure occurs. However, in
x86, kmalloc-256 is luckily aligned in 256 bytes, so the problem didn't
happen on it.
To fix this problem, this patch introduces alignment mismatch check in
find_mergeable(). This will fix the problem.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reported-by: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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