On 2017-06-29, intrigeri wrote:
> Vagrant Cascadian:
>> I've been trying to set up an Odroid-C2 for the Debian reproducible
>> builds test infrastructure, but haveged fails to start on this
>> particular machine with linux kernel 4.12. I've tried running the same
>> 4.12 kernels on other boards (pine64+) and haveged works fine.
>
> Interesting. Linux 4.12 is not available in Debian yet, so I can't
> easily try to reproduce on other (e.g. amd64) systems.

Right. Hopefully we'll see 4.12 in experimental soonish. Though, using
the same kernel on another board didn't reproduce the issue...


>> With arm64 userspace it just fails:
>
>> $ sudo strace -o haveged.strace.log  haveged --Foreground --verbose=-1 
>> --file data
>> [...]
>
>> Which produces haveged.strace.log:
>> [...]
>> write(1, "haveged starting up\n", 20)   = 20
>> mmap(NULL, 593920, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
>> 0xffffb3ec8000
>> mmap(NULL, 4294983680, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 
>> 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
>> brk(0xaaabd2da9000)                     = 0xaaaad2da3000
>> mmap(NULL, 4295118848, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 
>> 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
>> mmap(NULL, 134217728, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE, 
>> -1, 0) = 0xffffabec8000
>> munmap(0xffffabec8000, 1277952)         = 0
>> munmap(0xffffb0000000, 65830912)        = 0
>> mprotect(0xffffac000000, 135168, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
>> mmap(NULL, 4294983680, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 
>> 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
>> munmap(0xffffb3ec8000, 593920)          = 0
>> write(2, "haveged: Couldn't initialize HAV"..., 42) = 42
>> munmap(0xffffb3f59000, 2072576)         = 0
>> exit_group(1)                           = ?
>> +++ exited with 1 +++
>
> So the problem seems to be ENOMEM. Is that system seriously 
> memory-constrained?

2GB of ram, mostly sitting idle... doesn't seem too resource-constrained
to me! :)


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