Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: allocate mm_cpumask dynamically based on nr_cpu_ids

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sun Jul 08 2018 - 10:14:53 EST


On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 17:25 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > ./include/linux/bitmap.h:208:3: warning: âmemsetâ writing 64 bytes
> > into a region of size 0 overflows the destination [-Wstringop-
> > overflow=]
> > memset(dst, 0, len);
> > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I don't understand this one.
>
> Inside init_mm we have this line:
> .cpu_bitmap = { [BITS_TO_LONGS(NR_CPUS)] = 0},
>
> which is the way the documentation suggests statically
> allocated variable size arrays should be allocated
> and initialized.
>
> How does that result in a memset of the same size,
> on the same array, to throw an error like above?

Compiler knows that ->cpu_bitmap is 64 bits of storage, and with
!CPUMASK_OFFSTACK, nr_cpumask_bits = NR_CPUS. With NR_CPUS > 64,
compiler gripes, with NR_CPUS <= 64 it's a happy camper.

> What am I doing wrong?

Below is what I did to get box to both STHU, and to boot with the
openSUSE master branch config I sent. Without the efi_mm hunk, boot
hangs early with or without the other hunk.

I build and boot tested the openSUSE config, a NOPREEMPT+MAXSMP config,
my local config w. NR_CPUS=8, and master-rt w. NR_CPUS=256, which is
the only one that got any real exercise (building the others).

---
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 1 +
include/linux/mm_types.h | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ struct mm_struct efi_mm = {
.mmap_sem = __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(efi_mm.mmap_sem),
.page_table_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(efi_mm.page_table_lock),
.mmlist = LIST_HEAD_INIT(efi_mm.mmlist),
+ .cpu_bitmap = { [BITS_TO_LONGS(NR_CPUS)] = 0},
};

static bool disable_runtime;
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -501,7 +501,10 @@ extern struct mm_struct init_mm;

static inline void mm_init_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- cpumask_clear((struct cpumask *)&mm->cpu_bitmap);
+ unsigned long cpu_bitmap = (unsigned long)mm;
+
+ cpu_bitmap += offsetof(struct mm_struct, cpu_bitmap);
+ cpumask_clear((struct cpumask *)cpu_bitmap);
}

/* Future-safe accessor for struct mm_struct's cpu_vm_mask. */