Re: Arm64 crash while reading memory sysfs

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Fri May 28 2021 - 01:14:04 EST


On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 03:56:44PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 2021 18:50:48 +0100 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Can you please try Anshuman's patch "arm64/mm: Drop HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID":
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1621947349-25421-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx
> > >
> > > It seems to me that the check for memblock_is_memory() in
> > > arm64::pfn_valid() is what makes init_unavailable_range() to bail out for
> > > section parts that are not actually populated and then we have
> > > VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p)) for these pages.
> >
> > I acked Anshuman's patch, I think they all need to go in together.
>
> That's neat. Specifically which patches are we referring to here?

arm64: drop pfn_valid_within() and simplify pfn_valid():
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210511100550.28178-5-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx

arm64/mm: Drop HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1621947349-25421-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx

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Sincerely yours,
Mike.