Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] writes:

Johannes Weiner [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

From 89ed86b5b538d8debd3c29567d7e1d31257fa577 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Weiner <redacted>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 14:12:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node counters
 fix

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 2e116007
pgd = c0004000
[2e116007] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.12.0-rc3-00153-gb6bc6724488a #200
Hardware name: Generic DRA74X (Flattened Device Tree)
task: c0d0adc0 task.stack: c0d00000
PC is at __mod_node_page_state+0x2c/0xc8
LR is at __per_cpu_offset+0x0/0x8
pc : [<c0271de8>]    lr : [<c0d07da4>]    psr: 600000d3
sp : c0d01eec  ip : 00000000  fp : c15782f4
r10: 00000000  r9 : c1591280  r8 : 00004000
r7 : 00000001  r6 : 00000006  r5 : 2e116000  r4 : 00000007
r3 : 00000007  r2 : 00000001  r1 : 00000006  r0 : c0dc27c0
Flags: nZCv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment none
Control: 10c5387d  Table: 8000406a  DAC: 00000051
Process swapper (pid: 0, stack limit = 0xc0d00218)
Stack: (0xc0d01eec to 0xc0d02000)
1ee0:                            600000d3 c0dc27c0 c0271efc 00000001 c0d58864
1f00: ef470000 00008000 00004000 c029fbb0 01000000 c1572b5c 00002000 00000000
1f20: 00000001 00000001 00008000 c029f584 00000000 c0d58864 00008000 00008000
1f40: 01008000 c0c23790 c15782f4 a00000d3 c0d58864 c02a0364 00000000 c0819388
1f60: c0d58864 000000c0 01000000 c1572a58 c0aa57a4 00000080 00002000 c0dca000
1f80: efffe980 c0c53a48 00000000 c0c23790 c1572a58 c0c59e48 c0c59de8 c1572b5c
1fa0: c0dca000 c0c257a4 00000000 ffffffff c0dca000 c0d07940 c0dca000 c0c00a9c
1fc0: ffffffff ffffffff 00000000 c0c00680 00000000 c0c53a48 c0dca214 c0d07958
1fe0: c0c53a44 c0d0caa4 8000406a 412fc0f2 00000000 8000807c 00000000 00000000
[<c0271de8>] (__mod_node_page_state) from [<c0271efc>] (mod_node_page_state+0x2c/0x4c)
[<c0271efc>] (mod_node_page_state) from [<c029fbb0>] (cache_alloc_refill+0x5b8/0x828)
[<c029fbb0>] (cache_alloc_refill) from [<c02a0364>] (kmem_cache_alloc+0x24c/0x2d0)
[<c02a0364>] (kmem_cache_alloc) from [<c0c23790>] (create_kmalloc_cache+0x20/0x8c)
[<c0c23790>] (create_kmalloc_cache) from [<c0c257a4>] (kmem_cache_init+0xac/0x11c)
[<c0c257a4>] (kmem_cache_init) from [<c0c00a9c>] (start_kernel+0x1b8/0x3c0)
[<c0c00a9c>] (start_kernel) from [<8000807c>] (0x8000807c)
Code: e79e5103 e28c3001 e0833001 e1a04003 (e19440d5)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Just to be clear that's not my call trace.

quoted

The zone counters work earlier than the node counters because the
zones have special boot pagesets, whereas the nodes do not.

Add boot nodestats against which we account until the dynamic per-cpu
allocator is available.

This isn't working for me. I applied it on top of next-20170605, I still
get an oops:

But today's linux-next is OK. So I must have missed a fix when testing
this in isolation.

commit d94b69d9a3f8139e6d5f5d03c197d8004de3905a
Author:     Johannes Weiner [off-list ref]
AuthorDate: Tue Jun 6 09:19:50 2017 +1000
Commit:     Stephen Rothwell [off-list ref]
CommitDate: Tue Jun 6 09:19:50 2017 +1000

    mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node counters fix
    
    Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 2e116007
    pgd = c0004000
    [2e116007] *pgd=00000000
    Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM

...

Booted to userspace:

$ uname -a
Linux buildroot 4.12.0-rc4-gcc-5.4.1-00130-gd94b69d9a3f8 #354 SMP Tue Jun 6 20:44:42 AEST 2017 ppc64le GNU/Linux


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