linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix boot with some memory above MAXMEM

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Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 22:17:21 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix boot with some memory above MAXMEM

A 5-level paging capable machine can have memory above 46-bit in the
physical address space. This memory is only addressable in the 5-level
paging mode: we don't have enough virtual address space to create direct
mapping for such memory in the 4-level paging mode.

Currently, we fail boot completely: NULL pointer dereference in
subsection_map_init().

Skip creating a memblock for such memory instead and notify user that
some memory is not addressable.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.14
---

Tested with a hacked QEMU: https://gist.github.com/kiryl/d45eb54110944ff95e544972d8bdac1d

---
 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index c5399e80c59c..d320d37d0f95 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -1280,8 +1280,8 @@ void __init e820__memory_setup(void)
 
 void __init e820__memblock_setup(void)
 {
+	u64 size, end, not_addressable = 0;
 	int i;
-	u64 end;
 
 	/*
 	 * The bootstrap memblock region count maximum is 128 entries
@@ -1307,7 +1307,22 @@ void __init e820__memblock_setup(void)
 		if (entry->type != E820_TYPE_RAM && entry->type != E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN)
 			continue;
 
-		memblock_add(entry->addr, entry->size);
+		if (entry->addr >= MAXMEM) {
+			not_addressable += entry->size;
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		end = min_t(u64, end, MAXMEM - 1);
+		size = end - entry->addr;
+		not_addressable += entry->size - size;
+		memblock_add(entry->addr, size);
+	}
+
+	if (not_addressable) {
+		pr_err("%lldGB of physical memory is not addressable in the paging mode\n",
+		       not_addressable >> 30);
+		if (!pgtable_l5_enabled())
+			pr_err("Consider enabling 5-level paging\n");
 	}
 
 	/* Throw away partial pages: */
-- 
2.26.2