If max_pfn is not aligned to a section boundary, we can easily run into BUGs. This can e.g., be triggered on x86-64 under QEMU by specifying a memory size that is not a multiple of 128MB (e.g., 4097MB, but also 4160MB). I was told that on real HW, we can easily have this scenario (esp., one of the main reasons sub-section hotadd of devmem was added).
The issue is, that we have a valid memmap (pfn_valid()) for the whole section, and the whole section will be marked "online". pfn_to_online_page() will succeed, but the memmap contains garbage.
E.g., doing a "./page-types -r -a 0x144001" when QEMU was started with "-m 4160M" - (see tools/vm/page-types.c):
[ 200.476376] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffffe [ 200.477500] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 200.478334] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 200.479076] PGD 59614067 P4D 59614067 PUD 59616067 PMD 0 [ 200.479557] Oops: 0000 [#4] SMP NOPTI [ 200.479875] CPU: 0 PID: 603 Comm: page-types Tainted: G D W 5.5.0-rc1-next-20191209 #93 [ 200.480646] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu4 [ 200.481648] RIP: 0010:stable_page_flags+0x4d/0x410 [ 200.482061] Code: f3 ff 41 89 c0 48 b8 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 45 84 c0 0f 85 cd 02 00 00 48 8b 53 08 48 8b 2b 48f [ 200.483644] RSP: 0018:ffffb139401cbe60 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 200.484091] RAX: fffffffffffffffe RBX: fffffbeec5100040 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 200.484697] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff9535c7cd RDI: 0000000000000246 [ 200.485313] RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 200.485917] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000144001 [ 200.486523] R13: 00007ffd6ba55f48 R14: 00007ffd6ba55f40 R15: ffffb139401cbf08 [ 200.487130] FS: 00007f68df717580(0000) GS:ffff9ec77fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 200.487804] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 200.488295] CR2: fffffffffffffffe CR3: 0000000135d48000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 200.488897] Call Trace: [ 200.489115] kpageflags_read+0xe9/0x140 [ 200.489447] proc_reg_read+0x3c/0x60 [ 200.489755] vfs_read+0xc2/0x170 [ 200.490037] ksys_pread64+0x65/0xa0 [ 200.490352] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0xa0 [ 200.490665] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
But it can be triggered much easier via "cat /proc/kpageflags > /dev/null" after cold/hot plugging a DIMM to such a system:
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/kpageflags > /dev/null [ 111.517275] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffffe [ 111.517907] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 111.518333] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 111.518771] PGD a240e067 P4D a240e067 PUD a2410067 PMD 0
This patch fixes that by at least zero-ing out that memmap (so e.g., page_to_pfn() will not crash). Commit 907ec5fca3dc ("mm: zero remaining unavailable struct pages") tried to fix a similar issue, but forgot to consider this special case.
After this patch, there are still problems to solve. E.g., not all of these pages falling into a memory hole will actually get initialized later and set PageReserved - they are only zeroed out - but at least the immediate crashes are gone. A follow-up patch will take care of this.
Fixes: f7f99100d8d9 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap") Tested-by: Daniel Jordan daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.15+ Cc: Naoya Horiguchi n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com Cc: Pavel Tatashin pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Steven Sistare steven.sistare@oracle.com Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Daniel Jordan daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com Cc: Bob Picco bob.picco@oracle.com Cc: Oscar Salvador osalvador@suse.de Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com --- mm/page_alloc.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 62dcd6b76c80..1eb2ce7c79e4 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -6932,7 +6932,8 @@ static u64 zero_pfn_range(unsigned long spfn, unsigned long epfn) * 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=. + * layout is manually configured via memmap=, or when the highest physical + * address (max_pfn) does not end on a section boundary. */ void __init zero_resv_unavail(void) { @@ -6950,7 +6951,16 @@ void __init zero_resv_unavail(void) pgcnt += zero_pfn_range(PFN_DOWN(next), PFN_UP(start)); next = end; } - pgcnt += zero_pfn_range(PFN_DOWN(next), max_pfn); + + /* + * 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. + */ + pgcnt += zero_pfn_range(PFN_DOWN(next), + round_up(max_pfn, PAGES_PER_SECTION));
/* * Struct pages that do not have backing memory. This could be because