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Stafford Horne d0b7213f89 init: Align init_task to avoid conflict with MUTEX_FLAGS
When booting on 32-bit machines (seen on OpenRISC) I saw this warning
with CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES turned on.

    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    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>
2020-08-04 10:59:45 +09:00
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Makefile Linux 5.8 2020-08-02 14:21:45 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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