Re: [PATCH -next] mm/hotplug: fix an imbalance with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Fri 01-03-19 17:08:14, Qian Cai wrote:
> When onlining a memory block with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, it unmaps the pages
> in the block from kernel, However, it does not map those pages while
> offlining at the beginning. As the result, it triggers a panic below
> while onlining on ppc64le as it checks if the pages are mapped before
> unmapping. However, the imbalance exists for all arches where
> double-unmappings could happen. Therefore, let kernel map those pages in
> generic_online_page() before they have being freed into the page
> allocator for the first time where it will set the page count to one.

OK, hooking into generic_online_page makes much more sense than the
previous attempt (inside offlining path).

> On the other hand, it works fine during the boot, because at least for
> IBM POWER8, it does,
> 
> early_setup
>   early_init_mmu
>     harsh__early_init_mmu
>       htab_initialize [1]
>         htab_bolt_mapping [2]
> 
> where it effectively map all memblock regions just like
> kernel_map_linear_page(), so later mem_init() -> memblock_free_all()
> will unmap them just fine without any imbalance. On other arches without
> this imbalance checking, it still unmap them once at the most.
> 
> [1]
> for_each_memblock(memory, reg) {
>         base = (unsigned long)__va(reg->base);
>         size = reg->size;
> 
>         DBG("creating mapping for region: %lx..%lx (prot: %lx)\n",
>                 base, size, prot);
> 
>         BUG_ON(htab_bolt_mapping(base, base + size, __pa(base),
>                 prot, mmu_linear_psize, mmu_kernel_ssize));
>         }
> 
> [2] linear_map_hash_slots[paddr >> PAGE_SHIFT] = ret | 0x80;
> 
> kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c:1815!
> Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
> LE SMP NR_CPUS=256 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NUMA pSeries
> CPU: 2 PID: 4298 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.0.0-rc7+ #15
> NIP:  c000000000062670 LR: c00000000006265c CTR: 0000000000000000
> REGS: c0000005bf8a75b0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (5.0.0-rc7+)
> MSR:  800000000282b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 28422842
> XER: 00000000
> CFAR: c000000000804f44 IRQMASK: 1
> GPR00: c00000000006265c c0000005bf8a7840 c000000001518200 c0000000013cbcc8
> GPR04: 0000000000080004 0000000000000000 00000000ccc457e0 c0000005c4e341d8
> GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 c000000007f4f800 0000000000000001
> GPR12: 0000000000002200 c000000007f4e100 0000000000000000 0000000139c29710
> GPR16: 0000000139c29714 0000000139c29788 c0000000013cbcc8 0000000000000000
> GPR20: 0000000000034000 c0000000016e05e8 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
> GPR24: 0000000000bf50d9 800000000000018e 0000000000000000 c0000000016e04b8
> GPR28: f000000000d00040 0000006420a2f217 f000000000d00000 00ea1b2170340000
> NIP [c000000000062670] __kernel_map_pages+0x2e0/0x4f0
> LR [c00000000006265c] __kernel_map_pages+0x2cc/0x4f0
> Call Trace:
> [c0000005bf8a7840] [c00000000006265c] __kernel_map_pages+0x2cc/0x4f0
> (unreliable)
> [c0000005bf8a78d0] [c00000000028c4a0] free_unref_page_prepare+0x2f0/0x4d0
> [c0000005bf8a7930] [c000000000293144] free_unref_page+0x44/0x90
> [c0000005bf8a7970] [c00000000037af24] __online_page_free+0x84/0x110
> [c0000005bf8a79a0] [c00000000037b6e0] online_pages_range+0xc0/0x150
> [c0000005bf8a7a00] [c00000000005aaa8] walk_system_ram_range+0xc8/0x120
> [c0000005bf8a7a50] [c00000000037e710] online_pages+0x280/0x5a0
> [c0000005bf8a7b40] [c0000000006419e4] memory_subsys_online+0x1b4/0x270
> [c0000005bf8a7bb0] [c000000000616720] device_online+0xc0/0xf0
> [c0000005bf8a7bf0] [c000000000642570] state_store+0xc0/0x180
> [c0000005bf8a7c30] [c000000000610b2c] dev_attr_store+0x3c/0x60
> [c0000005bf8a7c50] [c0000000004c0a50] sysfs_kf_write+0x70/0xb0
> [c0000005bf8a7c90] [c0000000004bf40c] kernfs_fop_write+0x10c/0x250
> [c0000005bf8a7ce0] [c0000000003e4b18] __vfs_write+0x48/0x240
> [c0000005bf8a7d80] [c0000000003e4f68] vfs_write+0xd8/0x210
> [c0000005bf8a7dd0] [c0000000003e52f0] ksys_write+0x70/0x120
> [c0000005bf8a7e20] [c00000000000b000] system_call+0x5c/0x70
> Instruction dump:
> 7fbd5278 7fbd4a78 3e42ffeb 7bbd0640 3a523ac8 7e439378 487a2881 60000000
> e95505f0 7e6aa0ae 6a690080 7929c9c2 <0b090000> 7f4aa1ae 7e439378 487a28dd
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>

I can see Andrew has sent the patch to Linus already (btw. was there any
reason to rush this? It's been broken for a long time without anybody
noticing, but whatever).

Just for the reference.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Thanks!

> ---
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index c4f59ac21014..2a778602a821 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -661,6 +661,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__online_page_free);
>  
>  static void generic_online_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
>  {
> +	kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 1);
>  	__free_pages_core(page, order);
>  	totalram_pages_add(1UL << order);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> -- 
> 2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs