linux-kernel - vmemmap_verify() BUGs during memory hotplug (4.2-rc1 regression)

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:32:45 +0100
From:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
CC:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: vmemmap_verify() BUGs during memory hotplug (4.2-rc1 regression)

Mel,

As of commit 8a942fdea560d4ac0e9d9fabcd5201ad20e0c382 (mm: meminit: make
__early_pfn_to_nid SMP-safe and introduce meminit_pfn_in_nid)
vmemmap_verify() will BUG_ON() during memory hotplug because of its use
of early_pfn_to_nid().  Previously, it would have reported bogus (or
failed to report valid) warnings.

I believe this does not affect memory hotplug on most x86 systems
because vmemmap_populate() would normally call
vmemmap_populate_hugepages() which avoids calling vmemmap_verify() in
the common case (no existing mappings covering the new area).

I'm triggering the early_pfn_to_nid() BUG_ON() with the Xen balloon
driver in a PV guest which will always call vmemmap_populate_basepages()
(since Xen PV guests lack superpage support).

Not really sure what the best way to resolve this is.  Presumably
vmmemmap_verify() needs to switch to using pfn_to_nid() after the
initial initialization but there doesn't appear to be anything suitable
to distinguish between the early and hotplug cases.

David

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