3.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Michael Holzheu <holz...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> commit d7736ff5be31edaa4fe5ab62810c64529a24b149 upstream. Dumps created by kdump or zfcpdump can contain invalid memory holes when dumping z/VM systems that have memory pressure. For example: # zgetdump -i /proc/vmcore. Memory map: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000bfffff (12 MB) 0000000000e00000 - 00000000014fffff (7 MB) 000000000bd00000 - 00000000f3bfffff (3711 MB) The memory detection function find_memory_chunks() issues tprot to find valid memory chunks. In case of CMM it can happen that pages are marked as unstable via set_page_unstable() in arch_free_page(). If z/VM has released that pages, tprot returns -EFAULT and indicates a memory hole. So fix this and switch off CMM in case of kdump or zfcpdump. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holz...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidef...@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/s390/mm/page-states.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/arch/s390/mm/page-states.c +++ b/arch/s390/mm/page-states.c @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ #include <linux/mm.h> #include <linux/gfp.h> #include <linux/init.h> +#include <asm/setup.h> +#include <asm/ipl.h> #define ESSA_SET_STABLE 1 #define ESSA_SET_UNUSED 2 @@ -41,6 +43,14 @@ void __init cmma_init(void) if (!cmma_flag) return; + /* + * Disable CMM for dump, otherwise the tprot based memory + * detection can fail because of unstable pages. + */ + if (OLDMEM_BASE || ipl_info.type == IPL_TYPE_FCP_DUMP) { + cmma_flag = 0; + return; + } asm volatile( " .insn rrf,0xb9ab0000,%1,%1,0,0\n" "0: la %0,0\n" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/