Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] hugetlb: restructure pool allocations

[Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>]

On 10/09/23 08:04, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 10/09/23 12:11, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> > On 9.10.2023 05:29, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > > On 10/06/23 15:35, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > >> On 10/06/23 23:39, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> > >>> On 6.10.2023 05:08, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > >>>> On 10/02/23 11:57, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> > >>>>> On 9/29/23 22:57, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > >>>>>> On 09/27/23 13:26, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> > >>>>>>> On 26.09.2023 01:48, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> >
> > I managed to get a boot log:
> > 
> > https://pastebin.com/GwurpCw9
> > 
> > This is using arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8550-mtp.dts for reference
> > 
> 
> Early on in boot log before the panic, I see this in the log:
> 
> [    0.000000] efi: UEFI not found.
> [    0.000000] [Firmware Bug]: Kernel image misaligned at boot, please fix your bootloader!
> 
> Isn't that misalignment pretty serious?  Or, is is possible to run with that?
> 
> There are no hugetlb pages allocated at boot time:
> 
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line: PMOS_NO_OUTPUT_REDIRECT console=ttyMSM0 earlycon clk_ignore_unused pd_ignore_unused androidboot.bootdevice=1d84000.ufshc androidboot.fstab_suffix=default androidboot.boot_devices=soc/1d84000.ufshc androidboot.serialno=ab855d8d androidboot.baseband=msm 
> 
> So, the routine where we are panic'ing (gather_bootmem_prealloc) should be a
> noop.  The first thing it does is:
> list_for_each_entry(m, &huge_boot_pages, list) {
> ...
> }
> 
> However, huge_boot_pages should be empty as initialized here:
> __initdata LIST_HEAD(huge_boot_pages);
> 
> At the end of the routine, we call prep_and_add_bootmem_folios to
> process the local list created withing that above loop:
> 
> LIST_HEAD(folio_list);
> 
> This should also be empty and a noop.
> 
> Is it possible that the misaligned kernel image could make these lists
> appear as non-empty?

Actually, just saw this:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231009145605.2150897-1-usama.arif@bytedance.com/

Will take a look, although as mentioned above prep_and_add_bootmem_folios on
an empty list should be a noop.
-- 
Mike Kravetz