d0b7213f89
When booting on 32-bit machines (seen on OpenRISC) I saw this warning
with CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES turned on.
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/mutex.c:1242 __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x328/0x3ec
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(__owner_task(owner) != current)
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.8.0-rc1-simple-smp-00005-g2864e2171db4-dirty #179
Call trace:
[<(ptrval)>] dump_stack+0x34/0x48
[<(ptrval)>] __warn+0x104/0x158
[<(ptrval)>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x328/0x3ec
[<(ptrval)>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x7c/0x94
[<(ptrval)>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x328/0x3ec
[<(ptrval)>] mutex_unlock+0x18/0x28
[<(ptrval)>] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked.part.0+0x29c/0x2f4
[<(ptrval)>] ? page_alloc_cpu_dead+0x0/0x30
[<(ptrval)>] ? start_kernel+0x0/0x684
[<(ptrval)>] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x4c/0x5c
[<(ptrval)>] page_alloc_init+0x34/0x68
[<(ptrval)>] ? start_kernel+0x1a0/0x684
[<(ptrval)>] ? early_init_dt_scan_nodes+0x60/0x70
irq event stamp: 0
I traced this to kernel/locking/mutex.c storing 3 bits of MUTEX_FLAGS in
the task_struct pointer (mutex.owner). There is a comment saying that
task_structs are always aligned to L1_CACHE_BYTES. This is not true for
the init_task.
On 64-bit machines this is not a problem because symbol addresses are
naturally aligned to 64-bits providing 3 bits for MUTEX_FLAGS. Howerver,
for 32-bit machines the symbol address only has 2 bits available.
Fix this by setting init_task alignment to at least L1_CACHE_BYTES.
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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