The patch titled Subject: x86/e820: put !E820_TYPE_RAM regions into memblock.reserved has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is x86-e820-put-e820_type_ram-regions-into-memblockreserved.patch
This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/x86-e820-put-e820_type_ram-regions-... and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/x86-e820-put-e820_type_ram-regions-...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Naoya Horiguchi n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com Subject: x86/e820: put !E820_TYPE_RAM regions into memblock.reserved
There is a kernel panic that is triggered when reading /proc/kpageflags on the kernel booted with kernel parameter 'memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]':
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffffe PGD 9b20e067 P4D 9b20e067 PUD 9b210067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 2 PID: 1728 Comm: page-types Not tainted 4.17.0-rc6-mm1-v4.17-rc6-180605-0816-00236-g2dfb086ef02c+ #160 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.fc28 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:stable_page_flags+0x27/0x3c0 Code: 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 85 ff 0f 84 a0 03 00 00 41 54 55 49 89 fc 53 48 8b 57 08 48 8b 2f 48 8d 42 ff 83 e2 01 48 0f 44 c7 <48> 8b 00 f6 c4 01 0f 84 10 03 00 00 31 db 49 8b 54 24 08 4c 89 e7 RSP: 0018:ffffbbd44111fde0 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: fffffffffffffffe RBX: 00007fffffffeff9 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000202 RDI: ffffed1182fff5c0 RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffffbbd44111fed8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffed1182fff5c0 R13: 00000000000bffd7 R14: 0000000002fff5c0 R15: ffffbbd44111ff10 FS: 00007efc4335a500(0000) GS:ffff93a5bfc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: fffffffffffffffe CR3: 00000000b2a58000 CR4: 00000000001406e0 Call Trace: kpageflags_read+0xc7/0x120 proc_reg_read+0x3c/0x60 __vfs_read+0x36/0x170 vfs_read+0x89/0x130 ksys_pread64+0x71/0x90 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x160 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 RIP: 0033:0x7efc42e75e23 Code: 09 00 ba 9f 01 00 00 e8 ab 81 f4 ff 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 83 3d 29 0a 2d 00 00 75 13 49 89 ca b8 11 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 34 c3 48 83 ec 08 e8 db d3 01 00 48 89 04 24
According to kernel bisection, this problem became visible due to commit f7f99100d8d9 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap") which changes how struct pages are initialized.
Memblock layout affects the pfn ranges covered by node/zone. Consider that we have a VM with 2 NUMA nodes and each node has 4GB memory, and the default (no memmap= given) memblock layout is like below:
MEMBLOCK configuration: memory size = 0x00000001fff75c00 reserved size = 0x000000000300c000 memory.cnt = 0x4 memory[0x0] [0x0000000000001000-0x000000000009efff], 0x000000000009e000 bytes on node 0 flags: 0x0 memory[0x1] [0x0000000000100000-0x00000000bffd6fff], 0x00000000bfed7000 bytes on node 0 flags: 0x0 memory[0x2] [0x0000000100000000-0x000000013fffffff], 0x0000000040000000 bytes on node 0 flags: 0x0 memory[0x3] [0x0000000140000000-0x000000023fffffff], 0x0000000100000000 bytes on node 1 flags: 0x0 ...
If you give memmap=1G!4G (so it just covers memory[0x2]), the range [0x100000000-0x13fffffff] is gone:
MEMBLOCK configuration: memory size = 0x00000001bff75c00 reserved size = 0x000000000300c000 memory.cnt = 0x3 memory[0x0] [0x0000000000001000-0x000000000009efff], 0x000000000009e000 bytes on node 0 flags: 0x0 memory[0x1] [0x0000000000100000-0x00000000bffd6fff], 0x00000000bfed7000 bytes on node 0 flags: 0x0 memory[0x2] [0x0000000140000000-0x000000023fffffff], 0x0000000100000000 bytes on node 1 flags: 0x0 ...
This causes shrinking node 0's pfn range because it is calculated by the address range of memblock.memory. So some of struct pages in the gap range are left uninitialized.
We have a function zero_resv_unavail() which does zeroing the struct pages within the reserved unavailable range (i.e. memblock.memory && !memblock.reserved). This patch utilizes it to cover all unavailable ranges by putting them into memblock.reserved.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180615072947.GB23273@hori1.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp Fixes: f7f99100d8d9 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com Tested-by: Oscar Salvador osalvador@suse.de Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Cc: Steven Sistare steven.sistare@oracle.com Cc: Daniel Jordan daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com Cc: Matthew Wilcox willy@infradead.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/e820.c~x86-e820-put-e820_type_ram-regions-into-memblockreserved arch/x86/kernel/e820.c --- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c~x86-e820-put-e820_type_ram-regions-into-memblockreserved +++ a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c @@ -1248,6 +1248,7 @@ void __init e820__memblock_setup(void) { int i; u64 end; + u64 addr = 0;
/* * The bootstrap memblock region count maximum is 128 entries @@ -1264,13 +1265,21 @@ void __init e820__memblock_setup(void) struct e820_entry *entry = &e820_table->entries[i];
end = entry->addr + entry->size; + if (addr < entry->addr) + memblock_reserve(addr, entry->addr - addr); + addr = end; if (end != (resource_size_t)end) continue;
+ /* + * all !E820_TYPE_RAM ranges (including gap ranges) are put + * into memblock.reserved to make sure that struct pages in + * such regions are not left uninitialized after bootup. + */ if (entry->type != E820_TYPE_RAM && entry->type != E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN) - continue; - - memblock_add(entry->addr, entry->size); + memblock_reserve(entry->addr, entry->size); + else + memblock_add(entry->addr, entry->size); }
/* Throw away partial pages: */ _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com are
x86-e820-put-e820_type_ram-regions-into-memblockreserved.patch