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Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size

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On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 12:05:05PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 12:07:06PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Catalin Marinas
> > <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 07:59:48PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> > >> From: Tirumalesh Chalamarla <tchalamarla@cavium.com>
> > >>
> > >> Increase the standard cacheline size to avoid having locks in the same
> > >> cacheline.
> > >>
> > >> Cavium's ThunderX core implements cache lines of 128 byte size. With
> > >> current granulare size of 64 bytes (L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6) two locks could
> > >> share the same cache line leading a performance degradation.
> > >> Increasing the size fixes that.
> > >>
> > >> Increasing the size has no negative impact to cache invalidation on
> > >> systems with a smaller cache line. There is an impact on memory usage,
> > >> but that's not too important for arm64 use cases.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla <tchalamarla@cavium.com>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
> > >
> > > Applied. Thanks.
> > 
> > This patch causes a BUG() on r8a7795/salvator-x, for which support is not
> > yet upstream.
> > 
> > My config (attached) uses SLAB. If I switch to SLUB, it works.
> > The arm64 defconfig works, even if I switch from SLUB to SLAB.
> [...]
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2283!
> > Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
> [...]
> > Call trace:
> > [<ffffffc00014f9b4>] __kmem_cache_create+0x21c/0x280
> > [<ffffffc00068be50>] create_boot_cache+0x4c/0x80
> > [<ffffffc00068bed8>] create_kmalloc_cache+0x54/0x88
> > [<ffffffc00068bfc0>] create_kmalloc_caches+0x50/0xf4
> > [<ffffffc00068db08>] kmem_cache_init+0x104/0x118
> > [<ffffffc00067d7d8>] start_kernel+0x218/0x33c
> 
> I haven't managed to reproduce this on a Juno kernel.

I now managed to reproduce it with your config (slightly adapted to
allow Juno). I'll look into it.

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Catalin
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Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2015-11-03 13:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2015-11-03 15:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-11-03 16:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2015-11-03 20:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-11-04 00:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2015-11-04 13:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-11-04 15:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2015-11-04 16:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-11-04 16:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2015-11-04 16:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] arm64: Increase the max granular size Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2015-11-05 05:40 +0100
                [PATCH] mm: slab: Only move management objects off-slab for sizes larger than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2015-11-05 13:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: Only move management objects off-slab for  sizes larger than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-11-05 14:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: Only move management objects off-slab for  sizes larger than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2015-11-05 17:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: Only move management objects off-slab for sizes  larger than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-11-06 14:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: Only move management objects off-slab for  sizes larger than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-11-05 18:40 +0100

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