linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.17 32/67] mm: zero unavailable pages before memmap init

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Date:   Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:35:01 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.17 32/67] mm: zero unavailable pages before memmap init

4.17-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>

commit e181ae0c5db9544de9c53239eb22bc012ce75033 upstream.

We must zero struct pages for memory that is not backed by physical
memory, or kernel does not have access to.

Recently, there was a change which zeroed all memmap for all holes in
e820.  Unfortunately, it introduced a bug that is discussed here:

  https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg156764.html

Linus, also saw this bug on his machine, and confirmed that reverting
commit 124049decbb1 ("x86/e820: put !E820_TYPE_RAM regions into
memblock.reserved") fixes the issue.

The problem is that we incorrectly zero some struct pages after they
were setup.

The fix is to zero unavailable struct pages prior to initializing of
struct pages.

A more detailed fix should come later that would avoid double zeroing
cases: one in __init_single_page(), the other one in
zero_resv_unavail().

Fixes: 124049decbb1 ("x86/e820: put !E820_TYPE_RAM regions into memblock.reserved")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/page_alloc.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6841,6 +6841,7 @@ void __init free_area_init_nodes(unsigne
 	/* Initialise every node */
 	mminit_verify_pageflags_layout();
 	setup_nr_node_ids();
+	zero_resv_unavail();
 	for_each_online_node(nid) {
 		pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
 		free_area_init_node(nid, NULL,
@@ -6851,7 +6852,6 @@ void __init free_area_init_nodes(unsigne
 			node_set_state(nid, N_MEMORY);
 		check_for_memory(pgdat, nid);
 	}
-	zero_resv_unavail();
 }

 static int __init cmdline_parse_core(char *p, unsigned long *core,
@@ -7027,9 +7027,9 @@ void __init set_dma_reserve(unsigned lon

 void __init free_area_init(unsigned long *zones_size)
 {
+	zero_resv_unavail();
 	free_area_init_node(0, zones_size,
 			__pa(PAGE_OFFSET) >> PAGE_SHIFT, NULL);
-	zero_resv_unavail();
 }

 static int page_alloc_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)