linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: extend max struct page size for kmsan

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:38:22 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@...rosoft.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: extend max struct page size for kmsan

On Mon 30-01-23 14:07:26, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> After x86 has enabled support for KMSAN, it has become possible
> to have larger 'struct page' than was expected when commit
> 5470dea49f53 ("mm: use mm_zero_struct_page from SPARC on all 64b
> architectures") was merged:
> 
> include/linux/mm.h:156:10: warning: no case matching constant switch condition '96'
>         switch (sizeof(struct page)) {
> 
> Extend the maximum accordingly.
> 
> Fixes: 5470dea49f53 ("mm: use mm_zero_struct_page from SPARC on all 64b architectures")
> Fixes: 4ca8cc8d1bbe ("x86: kmsan: enable KMSAN builds for x86")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

I haven't really followed KMSAN development but I would have expected
that it would, like other debugging tools, add its metadata to page_ext
rather than page directly.

> ---
> This seems to show up extremely rarely in randconfig builds, but
> enough to trigger my build machine.
> 
> I saw a related discussion at [1] about raising MAX_STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE,
> but as I understand it, that needs to be addressed separately.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220701142310.2188015-11-glider@google.com/
> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h | 12 +++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index b73ba2e5cfd2..aa39d5ddace1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ extern int mmap_rnd_compat_bits __read_mostly;
>   * define their own version of this macro in <asm/pgtable.h>
>   */
>  #if BITS_PER_LONG == 64
> -/* This function must be updated when the size of struct page grows above 80
> +/* This function must be updated when the size of struct page grows above 96
>   * or reduces below 56. The idea that compiler optimizes out switch()
>   * statement, and only leaves move/store instructions. Also the compiler can
>   * combine write statements if they are both assignments and can be reordered,
> @@ -148,12 +148,18 @@ static inline void __mm_zero_struct_page(struct page *page)
>  {
>  	unsigned long *_pp = (void *)page;
>  
> -	 /* Check that struct page is either 56, 64, 72, or 80 bytes */
> +	 /* Check that struct page is either 56, 64, 72, 80, 88 or 96 bytes */
>  	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) & 7);
>  	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) < 56);
> -	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) > 80);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) > 96);
>  
>  	switch (sizeof(struct page)) {
> +	case 96:
> +		_pp[11] = 0;
> +		fallthrough;
> +	case 88:
> +		_pp[10] = 0;
> +		fallthrough;
>  	case 80:
>  		_pp[9] = 0;
>  		fallthrough;
> -- 
> 2.39.0

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs