Re: [regression] oops on heavy compilations ("kernel BUG at mm/zswap.c:1005!" and "Oops: invalid opcode: 0000")

From: Nhat Pham
Date: Fri Aug 23 2024 - 14:07:14 EST


On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 1:24 PM Piotr Oniszczuk
<piotr.oniszczuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Wiadomość napisana przez Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx> w dniu 23.08.2024, o godz. 18:16:
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> > Have you tried with 6.9 yet? IIRC, there are two major changes to
> > zswap architecture in recent versions.
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> No. But now building vanilla 6.9.12. Will install and see…
> (This will take some time as catching issue needs days of compilation)
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> > 1. In 6.9, we range-partition zswap's rbtrees to reduce lock contention.
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> > 2. In 6.10, we replace zswap's rbtrees with xarrays.
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> > If 6.9 is fine, then the latter is the suspect, and vice versa. Of
> > course, the minor changes are still suspect - but you get the idea :)
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> >> btw: we can go with elimination strategy.
> >> So what i need to change/disable to be closer to finding root cause?
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> > Could you let me know more about the setup? A couple things come to my mind:
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> > 1. zswap configs (allocator - is it zsmalloc? compressor?)
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> Well - I’m not using zswap.

But the bug happens in zswap path? :)

Could you do:

grep . /sys/module/zswap/parameters/*


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> [root@minimyth2-aarch64-next piotro]# swapon -s
> Filename Type Size Used Priority
> /dev/nvme0n1p3 partition 16776188 294164 -2
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> > 2. Is mTHP enabled? mTHP swapout was merged in 6.10, and there seems
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> I don’t have used config at the moment, but /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage in I see:
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> │/hugepages-1024kB
> │/hugepages-128kB
> │/hugepages-16kB
> │/hugepages-2048kB
> │/hugepages-256kB
> │/hugepages-32kB
> │/hugepages-512kB
> │/hugepages-64kB
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> > to be some conflicts with zswap, but Yosry will know more about this
> > than me...
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> > 3. Is there any proprietary driver etc.?
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> Only 2, both ryzen9 monitoring related:
> https://github.com/leogx9r/ryzen_smu/commits/master
> https://github.com/ocerman/zenpower/commits/master
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The reason I asked this is because I've seen proprietary error
screwing with memory in the past - it was an NVIDIA one though.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAKbZUD1-kqfuV0U+KDKPkQbm=RwzD_A1H3qk_c+bw92CqtMbuw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Also decompression step failure (albeit in the writeback path)