Re: [PATCH 2/2] memory-hotplug: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem

From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu
Date: Wed Sep 12 2012 - 21:58:25 EST


2012/09/12 10:43, Minchan Kim wrote:
> [1] reporeted that lowmem pages could be replaced by
> highmem pages during migration of CMA and fixed.
>
> Quote from [1]'s description
> "
> The filesystem layer expects pages in the block device's mapping to not
> be in highmem (the mapping's gfp mask is set in bdget()), but CMA can
> currently replace lowmem pages with highmem pages, leading to crashes in
> filesystem code such as the one below:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000400
> pgd = c0c98000
> [00000400] *pgd=00c91831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
> Internal error: Oops: 817 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
> CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.5.0-rc5+ #80)
> PC is at __memzero+0x24/0x80
> ...
> Process fsstress (pid: 323, stack limit = 0xc0cbc2f0)
> Backtrace:
> [<c010e3f0>] (ext4_getblk+0x0/0x180) from [<c010e58c>] (ext4_bread+0x1c/0x98)
> [<c010e570>] (ext4_bread+0x0/0x98) from [<c0117944>] (ext4_mkdir+0x160/0x3bc)
> r4:c15337f0
> [<c01177e4>] (ext4_mkdir+0x0/0x3bc) from [<c00c29e0>] (vfs_mkdir+0x8c/0x98)
> [<c00c2954>] (vfs_mkdir+0x0/0x98) from [<c00c2a60>] (sys_mkdirat+0x74/0xac)
> r6:00000000 r5:c152eb40 r4:000001ff r3:c14b43f0
> [<c00c29ec>] (sys_mkdirat+0x0/0xac) from [<c00c2ab8>] (sys_mkdir+0x20/0x24)
> r6:beccdcf0 r5:00074000 r4:beccdbbc
> [<c00c2a98>] (sys_mkdir+0x0/0x24) from [<c000e3c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)
> "
>
> Memory-hotplug has same problem with CMA so [1]'s fix could be applied
> with memory-hotplug, too.
>
> Fix it by reusing.
>
> [1] 6a6dccba2, mm: cma: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem
>
> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu

> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 15 ++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index 4491a6b..fb71e5c 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -752,13 +752,6 @@ static unsigned long scan_lru_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static struct page *
> -hotremove_migrate_alloc(struct page *page, unsigned long private, int **x)
> -{
> - /* This should be improooooved!! */
> - return alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE);
> -}
> -
> #define NR_OFFLINE_AT_ONCE_PAGES (256)
> static int
> do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
> @@ -809,8 +802,12 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
> putback_lru_pages(&source);
> goto out;
> }
> - /* this function returns # of failed pages */
> - ret = migrate_pages(&source, hotremove_migrate_alloc, 0,
> +
> + /*
> + * alloc_migrate_target should be improooooved!!
> + * migrate_pages returns # of failed pages.
> + */
> + ret = migrate_pages(&source, alloc_migrate_target, 0,
> true, MIGRATE_SYNC);
> if (ret)
> putback_lru_pages(&source);
>


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