On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:11:35AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 09.12.20 22:43, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > From: Mike Rapoport <r...@linux.ibm.com>
> >
> > memblock does not require that the reserved memory ranges will be a subset
> > of memblock.memory.
> >
> > As the result there maybe reserved pages that are not in the range of any
> > zone or node because zone and node boundaries are detected based on
> > memblock.memory and pages that only present in memblock.reserved are not
> > taken into account during zone/node size detection.
> >
> > Make sure that all ranges in memblock.reserved are added to memblock.memory
> > before calculating node and zone boundaries.
> >
> > 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>
> > ---
> > include/linux/memblock.h | 1 +
> > mm/memblock.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +++++++
> > 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
> > index ef131255cedc..e64dae2dd1ce 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/memblock.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
> > @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ int memblock_clear_nomap(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t
> > size);
> > unsigned long memblock_free_all(void);
> > void reset_node_managed_pages(pg_data_t *pgdat);
> > void reset_all_zones_managed_pages(void);
> > +void memblock_enforce_memory_reserved_overlap(void);
> >
> > /* Low level functions */
> > void __next_mem_range(u64 *idx, int nid, enum memblock_flags flags,
> > diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> > index b68ee86788af..9277aca642b2 100644
> > --- a/mm/memblock.c
> > +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> > @@ -1857,6 +1857,30 @@ void __init_memblock
> > memblock_trim_memory(phys_addr_t align)
> > }
> > }
> >
> > +/**
> > + * memblock_enforce_memory_reserved_overlap - make sure every range in
> > + * @memblock.reserved is covered by @memblock.memory
> > + *
> > + * The data in @memblock.memory is used to detect zone and node boundaries
> > + * during initialization of the memory map and the page allocator. Make
> > + * sure that every memory range present in @memblock.reserved is also added
> > + * to @memblock.memory even if the architecture specific memory
> > + * initialization failed to do so
> > + */
> > +void __init memblock_enforce_memory_reserved_overlap(void)
> > +{
> > + phys_addr_t start, end;
> > + int nid;
> > + u64 i;
> > +
> > + __for_each_mem_range(i, &memblock.reserved, &memblock.memory,
> > + NUMA_NO_NODE, MEMBLOCK_NONE, &start, &end, &nid) {
> > + pr_warn("memblock: reserved range [%pa-%pa] is not in memory\n",
> > + &start, &end);
> > + memblock_add_node(start, (end - start), nid);
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > void __init_memblock memblock_set_current_limit(phys_addr_t limit)
> > {
> > memblock.current_limit = limit;
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index eaa227a479e4..dbc57dbbacd8 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -7436,6 +7436,13 @@ void __init free_area_init(unsigned long
> > *max_zone_pfn)
> > memset(arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn, 0,
> > sizeof(arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn));
> >
> > + /*
> > + * Some architectures (e.g. x86) have reserved pages outside of
> > + * memblock.memory. Make sure these pages are taken into account
> > + * when detecting zone and node boundaries
> > + */
> > + memblock_enforce_memory_reserved_overlap();
> > +
> > start_pfn = find_min_pfn_with_active_regions();
> > descending = arch_has_descending_max_zone_pfns();
> >
> >
>
> CCing Dan.
>
> This implies that any memory that is E820_TYPE_SOFT_RESERVED that was
> reserved via memblock_reserve() will be added via memblock_add_node() as
> well, resulting in all such memory getting a memmap allocated right when
> booting up, right?
>
> IIRC, there are use cases where that is absolutely not desired.
Hmm, if this is the case we need entirely different solution to ensure
that we don't have partial pageblocks in a zone and we have all the
memory map initialized to a known state.
> Am I missing something? (@Dan?)
BTW, @Dan, why did you need to memblock_reserve(E820_TYPE_SOFT_RESERVED)
without memblock_add()ing it?
> --
> Thanks,
>
> David / dhildenb
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
