From patchwork Thu Aug 3 21:23:40 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Pavel Tatashin X-Patchwork-Id: 797465 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; spf=none (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=vger.kernel.org (client-ip=209.132.180.67; helo=vger.kernel.org; envelope-from=sparclinux-owner@vger.kernel.org; receiver=) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3xNjq44td7z9sNc for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 07:28:48 +1000 (AEST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752262AbdHCV1z (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2017 17:27:55 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:41418 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751891AbdHCVZ3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Aug 2017 17:25:29 -0400 Received: from userv0022.oracle.com (userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v73LO5Yq002385 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 3 Aug 2017 21:24:06 GMT Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by userv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v73LO5S2007997 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 3 Aug 2017 21:24:05 GMT Received: from abhmp0004.oracle.com (abhmp0004.oracle.com [141.146.116.10]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v73LO4T2028479; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 21:24:04 GMT Received: from ca-ldom-ol-build-1.us.oracle.com (/10.129.68.23) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:24:04 -0700 From: Pavel Tatashin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, willy@infradead.org, mhocko@kernel.org Subject: [v5 02/15] x86/mm: setting fields in deferred pages Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 17:23:40 -0400 Message-Id: <1501795433-982645-3-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1 In-Reply-To: <1501795433-982645-1-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> References: <1501795433-982645-1-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> X-Source-IP: userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74] Sender: sparclinux-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Without deferred struct page feature (CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT), flags and other fields in "struct page"es are never changed prior to first initializing struct pages by going through __init_single_page(). With deferred struct page feature enabled there is a case where we set some fields prior to initializing: mem_init() { register_page_bootmem_info(); free_all_bootmem(); ... } When register_page_bootmem_info() is called only non-deferred struct pages are initialized. But, this function goes through some reserved pages which might be part of the deferred, and thus are not yet initialized. mem_init register_page_bootmem_info register_page_bootmem_info_node get_page_bootmem .. setting fields here .. such as: page->freelist = (void *)type; We end-up with similar issue as in the previous patch, where currently we do not observe problem as memory is zeroed. But, if flag asserts are changed we can start hitting issues. Also, because in this patch series we will stop zeroing struct page memory during allocation, we must make sure that struct pages are properly initialized prior to using them. The deferred-reserved pages are initialized in free_all_bootmem(). Therefore, the fix is to switch the above calls. Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan Reviewed-by: Bob Picco --- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index 136422d7d539..1e863baec847 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -1165,12 +1165,17 @@ void __init mem_init(void) /* clear_bss() already clear the empty_zero_page */ - register_page_bootmem_info(); - /* this will put all memory onto the freelists */ free_all_bootmem(); after_bootmem = 1; + /* Must be done after boot memory is put on freelist, because here we + * might set fields in deferred struct pages that have not yet been + * initialized, and free_all_bootmem() initializes all the reserved + * deferred pages for us. + */ + register_page_bootmem_info(); + /* Register memory areas for /proc/kcore */ kclist_add(&kcore_vsyscall, (void *)VSYSCALL_ADDR, PAGE_SIZE, KCORE_OTHER);