linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns where possible"

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:07:21 -0700
From:   Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
To:     Daniel Vacek <neelx@...hat.com>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid
 pfns where possible"

Hi Daniel,

Hmm... I only just noticed this because you CC'd an email address that
is no longer functional. I presume you're not using .mailmap, which
would have given you my current email address.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 03:38:55PM +0100, Daniel Vacek wrote:
> This reverts commit b92df1de5d289c0b5d653e72414bf0850b8511e0. The commit
> is meant to be a boot init speed up skipping the loop in memmap_init_zone()
> for invalid pfns. But given some specific memory mapping on x86_64 (or more
> generally theoretically anywhere but on arm with CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID)

My patch definitely wasn't ARM-specific & I have never tested it on ARM.
It was motivated by a MIPS platform with an extremely sparse memory map.
Could you explain why you think it depends on ARM or
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID?

> the implementation also skips valid pfns which is plain wrong and causes
> 'kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:1389!'

Which VM_BUG_ON is that? I don't see one on line 1389 as of commit
b92df1de5d28 ("mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns where
possible") or any mainline final release since.

> crash> log | grep -e BUG -e RIP -e Call.Trace -e move_freepages_block -e rmqueue -e freelist -A1
> kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:1389!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
> --
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8118833e>]  [<ffffffff8118833e>] move_freepages+0x15e/0x160
> RSP: 0018:ffff88054d727688  EFLAGS: 00010087
> --
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff811883b3>] move_freepages_block+0x73/0x80
>  [<ffffffff81189e63>] __rmqueue+0x263/0x460
>  [<ffffffff8118c781>] get_page_from_freelist+0x7e1/0x9e0
>  [<ffffffff8118caf6>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x176/0x420
> --
> RIP  [<ffffffff8118833e>] move_freepages+0x15e/0x160
>  RSP <ffff88054d727688>
> 
> crash> page_init_bug -v | grep RAM
> <struct resource 0xffff88067fffd2f8>          1000 -        9bfff       System RAM (620.00 KiB)
> <struct resource 0xffff88067fffd3a0>        100000 -     430bffff       System RAM (  1.05 GiB = 1071.75 MiB = 1097472.00 KiB)
> <struct resource 0xffff88067fffd410>      4b0c8000 -     4bf9cfff       System RAM ( 14.83 MiB = 15188.00 KiB)
> <struct resource 0xffff88067fffd480>      4bfac000 -     646b1fff       System RAM (391.02 MiB = 400408.00 KiB)
> <struct resource 0xffff88067fffd560>      7b788000 -     7b7fffff       System RAM (480.00 KiB)
> <struct resource 0xffff88067fffd640>     100000000 -    67fffffff       System RAM ( 22.00 GiB)
> 
> crash> page_init_bug | head -6
> <struct resource 0xffff88067fffd560>      7b788000 -     7b7fffff       System RAM (480.00 KiB)
> <struct page 0xffffea0001ede200>   1fffff00000000  0 <struct pglist_data 0xffff88047ffd9000> 1 <struct zone 0xffff88047ffd9800> DMA32          4096    1048575
> <struct page 0xffffea0001ede200> 505736 505344 <struct page 0xffffea0001ed8000> 505855 <struct page 0xffffea0001edffc0>
> <struct page 0xffffea0001ed8000>                0  0 <struct pglist_data 0xffff88047ffd9000> 0 <struct zone 0xffff88047ffd9000> DMA               1       4095
> <struct page 0xffffea0001edffc0>   1fffff00000400  0 <struct pglist_data 0xffff88047ffd9000> 1 <struct zone 0xffff88047ffd9800> DMA32          4096    1048575
> BUG, zones differ!
> 
> crash> kmem -p 77fff000 78000000 7b5ff000 7b600000 7b787000 7b788000
>       PAGE        PHYSICAL      MAPPING       INDEX CNT FLAGS
> ffffea0001e00000  78000000                0        0  0 0
> ffffea0001ed7fc0  7b5ff000                0        0  0 0
> ffffea0001ed8000  7b600000                0        0  0 0       <<<<
> ffffea0001ede1c0  7b787000                0        0  0 0
> ffffea0001ede200  7b788000                0        0  1 1fffff00000000

I'm not really sure what I'm looking at here. I presume you're saying
that memmap_init_zone() didn't initialize the struct page for
phys=0x7b788000?

Could you describe the memblock region list, and what ranges
memmap_init_zone() skipped over?

Thanks,
    Paul