Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: fix initialization of struct page for holes in memory layout

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>, Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: fix initialization of struct page for holes in memory layout
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:29:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X9HqZZsCalKVMkix@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201209214304.6812-3-rppt@kernel.org>

On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 11:43:04PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> There could be struct pages that are not backed by actual physical memory.
> This can happen when the actual memory bank is not a multiple of
> SECTION_SIZE or when an architecture does not register memory holes
> reserved by the firmware as memblock.memory.
> 
> Such pages are currently initialized using init_unavailable_mem() function
> that iterated through PFNs in holes in memblock.memory and if there is a
> struct page corresponding to a PFN, the fields if this page are set to
> default values and it is marked as Reserved.
> 
> init_unavailable_mem() does not take into account zone and node the page
> belongs to and sets both zone and node links in struct page to zero.
> 
> On a system that has firmware reserved holes in a zone above ZONE_DMA, for
> instance in a configuration below:
> 
> 	# grep -A1 E820 /proc/iomem
> 	7a17b000-7a216fff : Unknown E820 type
> 	7a217000-7bffffff : System RAM
> 
> unset zone link in struct page will trigger
> 
> 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!zone_spans_pfn(page_zone(page), pfn), page);
> 
> because there are pages in both ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_DMA (unset zone link in
> struct page) in the same pageblock.
> 
> Interleave initialization of pages that correspond to holes with the
> initialization of memory map, so that zone and node information will be
> properly set on such pages.
> 
> Fixes: 73a6e474cb37 ("mm: memmap_init: iterate over memblock regions rather
> that check each PFN")
> Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)


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