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

[Mike Kravetz]

On 10/10/23 23:30, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/10/23 02:07, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Oct 2023 08:15:13 -0700 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > > 
> > > Will take a look, although as mentioned above prep_and_add_bootmem_folios on
> > > an empty list should be a noop.
> > 
> > Konrad, are you able to test Usama's patch?  Thanks.
> I legitimately spent a sad amount of time trying to regain access to the
> remote board farm. Previously I could hit the bug on SM8550, but now I can't
> do it on SM8450, SM8350 and SM8250 (previous gens), with the same config.. I
> have no idea when I'll be able to get access to SM8550 again.
> 
> I did test it on the QCM6490 Fairphone 5 that I initially reported this on,
> and neither booting next-20231010 (with your patchset applied) nor adding
> the below patch on top of it seems to work. I can't get serial output from
> this device though to find out what it's unhappy about :/

Sorry for causing you to spend so much time on this.

As mentioned in the reply to Usama's patch, the root cause seems to be
the locking.  So, the real change to test is the locking changes in
that thread; not Usama's patch.
-- 
Mike Kravetz