The patch titled Subject: mm/shuffle: don't move pages between zones and don't read garbage memmaps has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-shuffle-dont-move-pages-between-zones-and-dont-read-garbage-memmaps.patch

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------------------------------------------------------ From: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Subject: mm/shuffle: don't move pages between zones and don't read garbage memmaps

Especially with memory hotplug, we can have offline sections (with a garbage memmap) and overlapping zones. We have to make sure to only touch initialized memmaps (online sections managed by the buddy) and that the zone matches, to not move pages between zones.

To test if this can actually happen, I added a simple

BUG_ON(page_zone(page_i) != page_zone(page_j));

right before the swap. When hotplugging a 256M DIMM to a 4G x86-64 VM and onlining the first memory block "online_movable" and the second memory block "online_kernel", it will trigger the BUG, as both zones (NORMAL and MOVABLE) overlap.

This might result in all kinds of weird situations (e.g., double allocations, list corruptions, unmovable allocations ending up in the movable zone).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200624094741.9918-2-david@redhat.com Fixes: e900a918b098 ("mm: shuffle initial free memory to improve memory-side-cache utilization") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Wei Yang richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Acked-by: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Minchan Kim minchan@kernel.org Cc: Huang Ying ying.huang@intel.com Cc: Wei Yang richard.weiyang@gmail.com Cc: Mel Gorman mgorman@techsingularity.net Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [5.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/shuffle.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/shuffle.c~mm-shuffle-dont-move-pages-between-zones-and-dont-read-garbage-memmaps +++ a/mm/shuffle.c @@ -58,25 +58,25 @@ module_param_call(shuffle, shuffle_store * For two pages to be swapped in the shuffle, they must be free (on a * 'free_area' lru), have the same order, and have the same migratetype. */ -static struct page * __meminit shuffle_valid_page(unsigned long pfn, int order) +static struct page * __meminit shuffle_valid_page(struct zone *zone, + unsigned long pfn, int order) { - struct page *page; + struct page *page = pfn_to_online_page(pfn);

/* * Given we're dealing with randomly selected pfns in a zone we * need to ask questions like... */

- /* ...is the pfn even in the memmap? */ - if (!pfn_valid_within(pfn)) + /* ... is the page managed by the buddy? */ + if (!page) return NULL;

- /* ...is the pfn in a present section or a hole? */ - if (!pfn_in_present_section(pfn)) + /* ... is the page assigned to the same zone? */ + if (page_zone(page) != zone) return NULL;

/* ...is the page free and currently on a free_area list? */ - page = pfn_to_page(pfn); if (!PageBuddy(page)) return NULL;

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ void __meminit __shuffle_zone(struct zon * page_j randomly selected in the span @zone_start_pfn to * @spanned_pages. */ - page_i = shuffle_valid_page(i, order); + page_i = shuffle_valid_page(z, i, order); if (!page_i) continue;

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ void __meminit __shuffle_zone(struct zon j = z->zone_start_pfn + ALIGN_DOWN(get_random_long() % z->spanned_pages, order_pages); - page_j = shuffle_valid_page(j, order); + page_j = shuffle_valid_page(z, j, order); if (page_j && page_j != page_i) break; } _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@redhat.com are

mm-shuffle-dont-move-pages-between-zones-and-dont-read-garbage-memmaps.patch mm-drop-vm_total_pages.patch mm-page_alloc-drop-nr_free_pagecache_pages.patch mm-memory_hotplug-document-why-shuffle_zone-is-relevant.patch mm-shuffle-remove-dynamic-reconfiguration.patch