linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] mm/hugetlb: fix memory offline with hugepage size

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Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:53:54 +0200
From:   Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] mm/hugetlb: fix memory offline with hugepage size > memory block size

dissolve_free_huge_pages() will either run into the VM_BUG_ON() or a
list corruption and addressing exception when trying to set a memory
block offline that is part (but not the first part) of a gigantic
hugetlb page with a size > memory block size.

When no other smaller hugepage sizes are present, the VM_BUG_ON() will
trigger directly. In the other case we will run into an addressing
exception later, because dissolve_free_huge_page() will not use the head
page of the compound hugetlb page which will result in a NULL hstate
from page_hstate(). list_del() would also not work well on a tail page.

To fix this, first remove the VM_BUG_ON() because it is wrong, and then
use the compound head page in dissolve_free_huge_page().

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 87e11d8..65e723c 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1441,15 +1441,17 @@ static int free_pool_huge_page(struct hstate *h, nodemask_t *nodes_allowed,
  */
 static void dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page *page)
 {
+	struct page *head = compound_head(page);
+
 	spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
-	if (PageHuge(page) && !page_count(page)) {
-		struct hstate *h = page_hstate(page);
-		int nid = page_to_nid(page);
-		list_del(&page->lru);
+	if (!page_count(head)) {
+		struct hstate *h = page_hstate(head);
+		int nid = page_to_nid(head);
+		list_del(&head->lru);
 		h->free_huge_pages--;
 		h->free_huge_pages_node[nid]--;
 		h->max_huge_pages--;
-		update_and_free_page(h, page);
+		update_and_free_page(h, head);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
 }
@@ -1466,9 +1468,9 @@ void dissolve_free_huge_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 	if (!hugepages_supported())
 		return;
 
-	VM_BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(start_pfn, 1 << minimum_order));
 	for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += 1 << minimum_order)
-		dissolve_free_huge_page(pfn_to_page(pfn));
+		if (PageHuge(pfn_to_page(pfn)))
+			dissolve_free_huge_page(pfn_to_page(pfn));
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.8.4