Re: [Regression] mmap with MAP_32BIT randomly fails since 6.1

From: Liam R. Howlett
Date: Thu Mar 02 2023 - 13:44:16 EST


* Snild Dolkow <snild@xxxxxxxx> [230302 10:33]:
> After upgrading a machine from 5.17.4 to 6.1.12 a couple of weeks ago, I
> started getting (inconsistent) failures when building Android:

Thanks for reporting this.

>
> > dex2oatd F 02-28 11:49:44 40098 40098 mem_map_arena_pool.cc:65] Check failed: map.IsValid() Failed anonymous mmap((nil), 131072, 0x3, 0x22, -1, 0): Cannot allocate memory. See process maps in the log.
>
> While it claims to be using 0x22 (MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS) for the
> flags, it really uses 0x40 (MAP_32BIT) as well, as shown by strace:
>
> > mmap(NULL, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_32BIT, -1, 0) = 0x40720000
> > mmap(NULL, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_32BIT, -1, 0) = 0x4124e000
> > mmap(NULL, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_32BIT, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
> > dex2oatd F 03-01 10:32:33 74063 74063 mem_map_arena_pool.cc:65] Check failed: map.IsValid() Failed anonymous mmap((nil), 131072, 0x3, 0x22, -1, 0): Cannot allocate memory. See process maps in the log.
>
> Here's a simple reproducer, which (if my math is correct) tries to mmap a
> total of ~600MiB in increasing chunk sizes:
>
> #include <sys/mman.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <errno.h>
>
> int main() {
> size_t total_leaks = 0;
> for (int shift=12; shift<=16; shift++) {
> size_t size = ((size_t)1)<<shift;
> for (int i=0; i<5000; ++i) {
> void* m = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_32BIT, -1, 0);
> if (m == MAP_FAILED || m == NULL) {
> printf(
> "Failed. m=%p size=%zd (1<<%d) i=%d "
> " errno=%d total_leaks=%zd (%zd MiB)\n",
> m, size, shift, i, errno,
> total_leaks, total_leaks / 1024 / 1024);
> return 1;
> }
> total_leaks += size;
> }
> }
> printf("Success.\n");
> return 0;
> }

Very useful, thanks!

>
> Older kernels fail very consistently at almost exactly 1GiB total_leaks, if
> you change the test program to go that far. On 6.1.12, it fails much
> earlier, after an arbitrary amount of successful mmaps:
>
> > $ ./mmap-test Failed. m=0xffffffffffffffff size=4096 (1<<12) i=1500
> > errno=12 total_leaks=6144000 (5 MiB)
> > $ ./mmap-test Failed. m=0xffffffffffffffff size=4096 (1<<12) i=620
> > errno=12 total_leaks=2539520 (2 MiB)
> > $ ./mmap-test Failed. m=0xffffffffffffffff size=4096 (1<<12) i=2408
> > errno=12 total_leaks=9863168 (9 MiB)
> > $ ./mmap-test Failed. m=0xffffffffffffffff size=4096 (1<<12) i=774
> > errno=12 total_leaks=3170304 (3 MiB)
> > $ ./mmap-test Failed. m=0xffffffffffffffff size=4096 (1<<12) i=1648
> > errno=12 total_leaks=6750208 (6 MiB)
> > $ ./mmap-test
>
>
> I have checked a more recent master commit (ee3f96b1, from March 1st), and
> the problem is still there. Bisecting shows that e15e06a8 is the last good
> commit, and that 524e00b3 is the first one failing in this way. The 10 or so
> commits in between run into a page fault BUG down in vma_merge() instead.

It does look like it's the maple tree. I am working on this issue now.

>
> This range of commits is about the same as mentioned in https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0b9f5425-08d4-8013-aa4c-e620c3b10bb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/,
> so I assume that my problem, too, was introduced with the Maple Tree
> changes. Sending this to the same people and lists.

These are the right people to email.

Hopefully I'll have an update for you soon.

Regards,
Liam