Re: Infinite loop on boot in free_early_partial due to start==endon tip/master

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Mar 05 2010 - 13:18:56 EST


>
> It's also possible that the presence or absence of PSE is responsible,
> since it impacts atom_size which feeds into alloc_size and has an impact
> on all these calculations.
>
> I was able to reproduce on native 32 bit by disabling PSE and
> artificially increasing dyn_size.
>
> (early) [ 0.000000] pcpu_build_alloc_info initial max_upa/upa is 1
> (early) [ 0.000000] pcpu_build_alloc_info after expansion best_upa/upa is 1
> (early) [ 0.000000] reserve_early_without_check: 0x1ce3000-0x1ce4000 "BOOTMEM"
> (early) [ 0.000000] pcpu_build_alloc_info unit_size 122880 == alloc_size 122880 / upa 1
> (early) [ 0.000000] pcpu_embed_first_chunk size_sum = 122880
> (early) [ 0.000000] pcpu_embed_first_chunk static_size = 91304
> (early) [ 0.000000] pcpu_embed_first_chunk reserved_size = 8192
> (early) [ 0.000000] pcpu_embed_first_chunk dyn_size = 23384
> (early) [ 0.000000] pcpu_embed_first_chunk unit_size 122880
>
> I guess the arises from fb90ef93 "early_res: Add free_early_partial"
> since I don't see any other changes in this area recently.
>
> Following patch fixes this specific issue and adds a warning to catch
> future potential errors of this type.
>
> ---
> Subject: x86: do not free zero sized per cpu areas
>
> This avoids an infinite loop in free_early_partial().
>
> Add a warning to free_early_partial to catch future problems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
> index ef6370b..89a3205 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
> @@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ static void __init pcpu_fc_free(void *ptr, size_t size)
> #ifdef CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM
> u64 start = __pa(ptr);
> u64 end = start + size;
> - free_early_partial(start, end);
> + if (start < end)
> + free_early_partial(start, end);
> #else
> free_bootmem(__pa(ptr), size);
> #endif
> diff --git a/kernel/early_res.c b/kernel/early_res.c
> index 3cb2c66..fbde443 100644
> --- a/kernel/early_res.c
> +++ b/kernel/early_res.c
> @@ -333,6 +333,8 @@ void __init free_early_partial(u64 start, u64 end)
> struct early_res *r;
> int i;
>
> + WARN_ON(start>=end);
> +
> try_next:
> i = find_overlapped_early(start, end);
> if (i >= max_early_res)
>

can you change to

> @@ -333,6 +333,11 @@ void __init free_early_partial(u64 start, u64 end)
> struct early_res *r;
> int i;
>
> + if (unlikely(start>=end)) {
> + WARN_ONCE(1, "free_early_partial get wrong start/end\n:);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> try_next:
> i = find_overlapped_early(start, end);
> if (i >= max_early_res)
>

Thanks

Yinghai
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