From patchwork Fri Oct 13 17:32:05 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Pavel Tatashin X-Patchwork-Id: 825638 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 3yDFGg4Gb8z9s7C for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2017 04:35:07 +1100 (AEDT) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753024AbdJMRdx (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:33:53 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:41423 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753011AbdJMRdv (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:33:51 -0400 Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v9DHWQCO014905 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:32:26 GMT Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v9DHWPr6028223 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:32:25 GMT Received: from abhmp0017.oracle.com (abhmp0017.oracle.com [141.146.116.23]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v9DHWNCr016503; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:32:23 GMT Received: from localhost.localdomain (/98.216.35.41) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:32:22 -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, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, sam@ravnborg.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, steven.sistare@oracle.com, daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com, bob.picco@oracle.com Subject: [PATCH v12 02/11] x86/mm: setting fields in deferred pages Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:32:05 -0400 Message-Id: <20171013173214.27300-3-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.14.2 In-Reply-To: <20171013173214.27300-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> References: <20171013173214.27300-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] 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, however, we set fields in register_page_bootmem_info that are subsequently clobbered right after in free_all_bootmem: 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; free_all_bootmem() free_low_memory_core_early() for_each_reserved_mem_region() reserve_bootmem_region() init_reserved_page() <- Only if this is deferred reserved page __init_single_pfn() __init_single_page() memset(0) <-- Loose the set fields here We end-up with issue where, currently we do not observe problem as memory is explicitly 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 Acked-by: Michal Hocko --- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index 5ea1c3c2636e..8822523fdcd7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -1182,12 +1182,18 @@ 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);