Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: workingset: tell cache transitions from workingset thrashing

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 03:36:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In file included from /git/arm-soc/include/linux/kernel.h:10,
>>                  from /git/arm-soc/arch/arm64/mm/init.c:20:
>> /git/arm-soc/arch/arm64/mm/init.c: In function 'mem_init':
>> /git/arm-soc/include/linux/compiler.h:357:38: error: call to
>> '__compiletime_assert_618' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON
>> failed: sizeof(struct page) > (1 << STRUCT_PAGE_MAX_SHIFT)
>
> This BUILD_BUG_ON() is to make sure we're sizing the VMEMMAP struct
> page array properly (address space divided by struct page size).
>
> From the code:
>
> /*
>  * Log2 of the upper bound of the size of a struct page. Used for sizing
>  * the vmemmap region only, does not affect actual memory footprint.
>  * We don't use sizeof(struct page) directly since taking its size here
>  * requires its definition to be available at this point in the inclusion
>  * chain, and it may not be a power of 2 in the first place.
>  */
> #define STRUCT_PAGE_MAX_SHIFT   6
>
...
> However, the check isn't conditional on that config option. And when
> VMEMMAP is disabled, we need 22 additional bits to identify the sparse
> memory sections in page->flags as well:
>
>> CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT=2
>> # CONFIG_ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED is not set
>> CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE=y
>> CONFIG_IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING=y
>>
>> #define MAX_NR_ZONES 3
>> #define ZONES_SHIFT 2
>> #define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS 52
>> #define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 30
>> #define SECTIONS_WIDTH 22
>
> ^^^ Those we get back with VMEMMAP enabled.
>
> So for configs for which the check is intended, it passes. We just
> need to make it conditional to those.

Ok, thanks for the analysis, I had missed that and was about to
send a different patch to increase STRUCT_PAGE_MAX_SHIFT
in some configurations, which is not as good.

> From 1d24635a6c7cd395bad5c29a3b9e5d2e98d9ab84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:18:23 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] arm64: fix vmemmap BUILD_BUG_ON() triggering on !vmemmap
>  setups
>
> Arnd reports the following arm64 randconfig build error with the PSI
> patches that add another page flag:
>

You could add further text here that I had just added to my
patch description (not sent):

    Further experiments show that the build error already existed before,
    but was only triggered with larger values of CONFIG_NR_CPU and/or
    CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT that might be used in actual configurations but
    not in randconfig builds.

    With longer CPU and node masks, I could recreate the problem with
    kernels as old as linux-4.7 when arm64 NUMA support got added.

    Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Fixes: 1a2db300348b ("arm64, numa: Add NUMA support for arm64 platforms.")
    Fixes: 3e1907d5bf5a ("arm64: mm: move vmemmap region right below
the linear region")

>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 1b18b4722420..72c9b6778b0a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -611,11 +611,13 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
>         BUILD_BUG_ON(TASK_SIZE_32                       > TASK_SIZE_64);
>  #endif
>
> +#ifndef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
>         /*

I tested it on two broken configurations, and found that you have
a typo here, it should be 'ifdef', not 'ifndef'. With that change, it
seems to build fine.

Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

      Arnd