From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>, Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mm: fix initialization of struct page for holes in memory layout
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 10:14:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe30ad3e-fab8-f9c6-b0ad-0d1d1a8e2807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210111194017.22696-3-rppt@kernel.org>
On 11.01.21 20:40, 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 iterates 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 the page 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.
>
> Update init_unavailable_mem() to use zone constraints defined by an
> architecture to properly setup the zone link and use node ID of the
> adjacent range in memblock.memory to set the node link.
>
> 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 | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
> 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index bdbec4c98173..0b56c3ca354e 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -7077,23 +7077,26 @@ void __init free_area_init_memoryless_node(int nid)
> * Initialize all valid struct pages in the range [spfn, epfn) and mark them
> * PageReserved(). Return the number of struct pages that were initialized.
> */
> -static u64 __init init_unavailable_range(unsigned long spfn, unsigned long epfn)
> +static u64 __init init_unavailable_range(unsigned long spfn, unsigned long epfn,
> + int zone, int nid)
> {
> - unsigned long pfn;
> + unsigned long pfn, zone_spfn, zone_epfn;
> u64 pgcnt = 0;
>
> + zone_spfn = arch_zone_lowest_possible_pfn[zone];
> + zone_epfn = arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn[zone];
> +
> + spfn = clamp(spfn, zone_spfn, zone_epfn);
> + epfn = clamp(epfn, zone_spfn, zone_epfn);
> +
> for (pfn = spfn; pfn < epfn; pfn++) {
> if (!pfn_valid(ALIGN_DOWN(pfn, pageblock_nr_pages))) {
> pfn = ALIGN_DOWN(pfn, pageblock_nr_pages)
> + pageblock_nr_pages - 1;
> continue;
> }
> - /*
> - * Use a fake node/zone (0) for now. Some of these pages
> - * (in memblock.reserved but not in memblock.memory) will
> - * get re-initialized via reserve_bootmem_region() later.
> - */
> - __init_single_page(pfn_to_page(pfn), pfn, 0, 0);
> +
> + __init_single_page(pfn_to_page(pfn), pfn, zone, nid);
> __SetPageReserved(pfn_to_page(pfn));
> pgcnt++;
> }
> @@ -7102,51 +7105,64 @@ static u64 __init init_unavailable_range(unsigned long spfn, unsigned long epfn)
> }
>
> /*
> - * Only struct pages that are backed by physical memory are zeroed and
> - * initialized by going through __init_single_page(). But, there are some
> - * struct pages which are reserved in memblock allocator and their fields
> - * may be accessed (for example page_to_pfn() on some configuration accesses
> - * flags). We must explicitly initialize those struct pages.
> + * Only struct pages that correspond to ranges defined by memblock.memory
> + * are zeroed and initialized by going through __init_single_page() during
> + * memmap_init().
> + *
> + * But, there could be struct pages that correspond to holes in
> + * memblock.memory. This can happen because of the following reasons:
> + * - phyiscal memory bank size is not necessarily the exact multiple of the
> + * arbitrary section size
> + * - early reserved memory may not be listed in memblock.memory
> + * - memory layouts defined with memmap= kernel parameter may not align
> + * nicely with memmap sections
> *
> - * This function also addresses a similar issue where struct pages are left
> - * uninitialized because the physical address range is not covered by
> - * memblock.memory or memblock.reserved. That could happen when memblock
> - * layout is manually configured via memmap=, or when the highest physical
> - * address (max_pfn) does not end on a section boundary.
> + * Explicitly initialize those struct pages so that:
> + * - PG_Reserved is set
> + * - zone link is set accorging to the architecture constrains
> + * - node is set to node id of the next populated region except for the
> + * trailing hole where last node id is used
> */
> -static void __init init_unavailable_mem(void)
> +static void __init init_zone_unavailable_mem(int zone)
> {
> - phys_addr_t start, end;
> - u64 i, pgcnt;
> - phys_addr_t next = 0;
> + unsigned long start, end;
> + int i, nid;
> + u64 pgcnt;
> + unsigned long next = 0;
>
> /*
> - * Loop through unavailable ranges not covered by memblock.memory.
> + * Loop through holes in memblock.memory and initialize struct
> + * pages corresponding to these holes
> */
> pgcnt = 0;
> - for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
> + for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, MAX_NUMNODES, &start, &end, &nid) {
> if (next < start)
> - pgcnt += init_unavailable_range(PFN_DOWN(next),
> - PFN_UP(start));
> + pgcnt += init_unavailable_range(next, start, zone, nid);
> next = end;
> }
>
> /*
> - * Early sections always have a fully populated memmap for the whole
> - * section - see pfn_valid(). If the last section has holes at the
> - * end and that section is marked "online", the memmap will be
> - * considered initialized. Make sure that memmap has a well defined
> - * state.
> + * Last section may surpass the actual end of memory (e.g. we can
> + * have 1Gb section and 512Mb of RAM pouplated).
> + * Make sure that memmap has a well defined state in this case.
> */
> - pgcnt += init_unavailable_range(PFN_DOWN(next),
> - round_up(max_pfn, PAGES_PER_SECTION));
> + end = round_up(max_pfn, PAGES_PER_SECTION);
> + pgcnt += init_unavailable_range(next, end, zone, nid);
>
> /*
> * Struct pages that do not have backing memory. This could be because
> * firmware is using some of this memory, or for some other reasons.
> */
> if (pgcnt)
> - pr_info("Zeroed struct page in unavailable ranges: %lld pages", pgcnt);
> + pr_info("Zone %s: zeroed struct page in unavailable ranges: %lld pages", zone_names[zone], pgcnt);
> +}
> +
> +static void __init init_unavailable_mem(void)
> +{
> + int zone;
> +
> + for (zone = 0; zone < ZONE_MOVABLE; zone++)
> + init_zone_unavailable_mem(zone);
Why < ZONE_MOVABLE?
I remember we can have memory holes inside the movable zone when messing
with "movablecore" cmdline parameter.
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-01 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-11 19:40 [PATCH v3 0/2] mm: fix initialization of struct page for holes in memory layout Mike Rapoport
2021-01-11 19:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/setup: don't remove E820_TYPE_RAM for pfn 0 Mike Rapoport
2021-01-13 8:56 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-01-13 11:23 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-13 12:56 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-13 15:35 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-21 13:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-11 19:40 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] mm: fix initialization of struct page for holes in memory layout Mike Rapoport
2021-02-01 9:14 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-02-01 9:39 ` Baoquan He
2021-02-01 14:12 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-12 0:58 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Andrew Morton
2021-01-12 5:25 ` Mike Rapoport
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