From patchwork Tue Aug 29 02:02:12 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Pavel Tatashin X-Patchwork-Id: 806914 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3xhBwR6nXsz9s1h for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:12:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3xhBwR5ddCzDqjP for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:12:07 +1000 (AEST) X-Original-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com (aserp1040.oracle.com [141.146.126.69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3xhBkh3MbHzDqLm for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:03:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v7T22XoA011010 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 29 Aug 2017 02:02:33 GMT Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v7T22Wu2005146 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 29 Aug 2017 02:02:33 GMT Received: from abhmp0011.oracle.com (abhmp0011.oracle.com [141.146.116.17]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v7T22SVS010235; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 02:02:28 GMT Received: from ca-ldom-ol-build-1.us.oracle.com (/10.129.68.23) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:02:28 -0700 From: Pavel Tatashin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, willy@infradead.org, mhocko@kernel.org, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, will.deacon@arm.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, sam@ravnborg.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net, Steven.Sistare@oracle.com, daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com, bob.picco@oracle.com Subject: [PATCH v7 01/11] x86/mm: setting fields in deferred pages Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 22:02:12 -0400 Message-Id: <1503972142-289376-2-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1 In-Reply-To: <1503972142-289376-1-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> References: <1503972142-289376-1-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+patchwork-incoming=ozlabs.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" Without deferred struct page feature (CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT), flags and other fields in "struct page"es are never changed prior to first initializing struct pages by going through __init_single_page(). With deferred struct page feature enabled, however, we set fields in register_page_bootmem_info that are subsequently clobbered right after in free_all_bootmem: mem_init() { register_page_bootmem_info(); free_all_bootmem(); ... } When register_page_bootmem_info() is called only non-deferred struct pages are initialized. But, this function goes through some reserved pages which might be part of the deferred, and thus are not yet initialized. mem_init register_page_bootmem_info register_page_bootmem_info_node get_page_bootmem .. setting fields here .. such as: page->freelist = (void *)type; free_all_bootmem() free_low_memory_core_early() for_each_reserved_mem_region() reserve_bootmem_region() init_reserved_page() <- Only if this is deferred reserved page __init_single_pfn() __init_single_page() memset(0) <-- Loose the set fields here We end-up with issue where, currently we do not observe problem as memory is explicitly zeroed. But, if flag asserts are changed we can start hitting issues. Also, because in this patch series we will stop zeroing struct page memory during allocation, we must make sure that struct pages are properly initialized prior to using them. The deferred-reserved pages are initialized in free_all_bootmem(). Therefore, the fix is to switch the above calls. Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan Reviewed-by: Bob Picco --- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index 62a91e6b1237..3a997352a992 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -1174,12 +1174,17 @@ void __init mem_init(void) /* clear_bss() already clear the empty_zero_page */ - register_page_bootmem_info(); - /* this will put all memory onto the freelists */ free_all_bootmem(); after_bootmem = 1; + /* Must be done after boot memory is put on freelist, because here we + * might set fields in deferred struct pages that have not yet been + * initialized, and free_all_bootmem() initializes all the reserved + * deferred pages for us. + */ + register_page_bootmem_info(); + /* Register memory areas for /proc/kcore */ kclist_add(&kcore_vsyscall, (void *)VSYSCALL_ADDR, PAGE_SIZE, KCORE_OTHER);