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Message-ID: <CA+G9fYtMCwsA+L-rC77DLZi5i2Vyz7K8dXORscs-5x3voByHJA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 20:22:09 +0530
From: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux- stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 023/159] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at
runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
On 22 December 2017 at 19:48, Dan Rue <dan.rue@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 09:45:08AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>> From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
>>
>> commit 83e3c48729d9ebb7af5a31a504f3fd6aff0348c4 upstream.
>>
>> Size of the mem_section[] array depends on the size of the physical address space.
>>
>> In preparation for boot-time switching between paging modes on x86-64
>> we need to make the allocation of mem_section[] dynamic, because otherwise
>> we waste a lot of RAM: with CONFIG_NODE_SHIFT=10, mem_section[] size is 32kB
>> for 4-level paging and 2MB for 5-level paging mode.
>>
>> The patch allocates the array on the first call to sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
>> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
>> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
>> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170929140821.37654-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
>> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>
> This patch causes a boot failure on arm64.
>
> Please drop this patch, or pick up the fix in:
>
> commit 629a359bdb0e0652a8227b4ff3125431995fec6e
> Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Date: Tue Nov 7 11:33:37 2017 +0300
>
> mm/sparsemem: Fix ARM64 boot crash when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
>
> See https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1527427.html
+1.
Boot failed on arm64 without 629a359b
mm/sparsemem: Fix ARM64 boot crash when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
Boot Error log:
--------------------
[ 0.000000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 00000000
[ 0.000000] Mem abort info:
[ 0.000000] Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 0.000000] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 0.000000] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 0.000000] Data abort info:
[ 0.000000] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[ 0.000000] CM = 0, WnR = 0
[ 0.000000] [0000000000000000] user address but active_mm is swapper
[ 0.000000] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.14.9-rc1 #1
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: ARM Juno development board (r2) (DT)
[ 0.000000] task: ffff0000091d9380 task.stack: ffff0000091c0000
[ 0.000000] PC is at memory_present+0x64/0xf4
[ 0.000000] LR is at memory_present+0x38/0xf4
[ 0.000000] pc : [<ffff0000090a1f54>] lr : [<ffff0000090a1f28>]
pstate: 800000c5
[ 0.000000] sp : ffff0000091c3e80
More information,
https://pastebin.com/KambxUwb
- Naresh
>
>>
>> ---
>> include/linux/mmzone.h | 6 +++++-
>> mm/page_alloc.c | 10 ++++++++++
>> mm/sparse.c | 17 +++++++++++------
>> 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
>> @@ -1152,13 +1152,17 @@ struct mem_section {
>> #define SECTION_ROOT_MASK (SECTIONS_PER_ROOT - 1)
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
>> -extern struct mem_section *mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS];
>> +extern struct mem_section **mem_section;
>> #else
>> extern struct mem_section mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS][SECTIONS_PER_ROOT];
>> #endif
>>
>> static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
>> {
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
>> + if (!mem_section)
>> + return NULL;
>> +#endif
>> if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)])
>> return NULL;
>> return &mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>> @@ -5651,6 +5651,16 @@ void __init sparse_memory_present_with_a
>> unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
>> int i, this_nid;
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
>> + if (!mem_section) {
>> + unsigned long size, align;
>> +
>> + size = sizeof(struct mem_section) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS;
>> + align = 1 << (INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT);
>> + mem_section = memblock_virt_alloc(size, align);
>> + }
>> +#endif
>> +
>> for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, &this_nid)
>> memory_present(this_nid, start_pfn, end_pfn);
>> }
>> --- a/mm/sparse.c
>> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
>> @@ -23,8 +23,7 @@
>> * 1) mem_section - memory sections, mem_map's for valid memory
>> */
>> #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
>> -struct mem_section *mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS]
>> - ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
>> +struct mem_section **mem_section;
>> #else
>> struct mem_section mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS][SECTIONS_PER_ROOT]
>> ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
>> @@ -101,7 +100,7 @@ static inline int sparse_index_init(unsi
>> int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms)
>> {
>> unsigned long root_nr;
>> - struct mem_section* root;
>> + struct mem_section *root = NULL;
>>
>> for (root_nr = 0; root_nr < NR_SECTION_ROOTS; root_nr++) {
>> root = __nr_to_section(root_nr * SECTIONS_PER_ROOT);
>> @@ -112,7 +111,7 @@ int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms)
>> break;
>> }
>>
>> - VM_BUG_ON(root_nr == NR_SECTION_ROOTS);
>> + VM_BUG_ON(!root);
>>
>> return (root_nr * SECTIONS_PER_ROOT) + (ms - root);
>> }
>> @@ -330,11 +329,17 @@ again:
>> static void __init check_usemap_section_nr(int nid, unsigned long *usemap)
>> {
>> unsigned long usemap_snr, pgdat_snr;
>> - static unsigned long old_usemap_snr = NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
>> - static unsigned long old_pgdat_snr = NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
>> + static unsigned long old_usemap_snr;
>> + static unsigned long old_pgdat_snr;
>> struct pglist_data *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
>> int usemap_nid;
>>
>> + /* First call */
>> + if (!old_usemap_snr) {
>> + old_usemap_snr = NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
>> + old_pgdat_snr = NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
>> + }
>> +
>> usemap_snr = pfn_to_section_nr(__pa(usemap) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
>> pgdat_snr = pfn_to_section_nr(__pa(pgdat) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
>> if (usemap_snr == pgdat_snr)
>>
>>
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