Re: [PATCH] mm: refactor initialization of stuct page for holes in memory layout

[Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 03:47:36PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue,  1 Dec 2020 20:15:02 +0200 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> 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);
> 
> That sounds pretty serious.
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Should this be backported to -stable?  If so, do we have a suitable Fixes:?

Sorry, I forgot to add

Fixes: 73a6e474cb37 ("mm: memmap_init: iterate over memblock regions rather that check each PFN")


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Sincerely yours,
Mike.