On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 11:43:04PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <r...@linux.ibm.com>
>
> There could be struct pages that are not backed by actual physical memory.
> This can happen when the actual memory bank is not a multiple of
> SECTION_SIZE or when an architecture does not register memory holes
> reserved by the firmware as memblock.memory.
>
> Such pages are currently initialized using init_unavailable_mem() function
> that iterated through PFNs in holes in memblock.memory and if there is a
> struct page corresponding to a PFN, the fields if this page are set to
> default values and it is marked as Reserved.
>
> init_unavailable_mem() does not take into account zone and node the page
> belongs to and sets both zone and node links in struct page to zero.
>
> On a system that has firmware reserved holes in a zone above ZONE_DMA, for
> instance in a configuration below:
>
> # grep -A1 E820 /proc/iomem
> 7a17b000-7a216fff : Unknown E820 type
> 7a217000-7bffffff : System RAM
>
> unset zone link in struct page will trigger
>
> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!zone_spans_pfn(page_zone(page), pfn), page);
>
> because there are pages in both ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_DMA (unset zone link in
> struct page) in the same pageblock.
>
> Interleave initialization of pages that correspond to holes with the
> initialization of memory map, so that zone and node information will be
> properly set on such pages.
>
> Fixes: 73a6e474cb37 ("mm: memmap_init: iterate over memblock regions rather
> that check each PFN")
> Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <r...@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)
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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
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