From 353b1e7b5859e98860f984d8894fa7ddc242a90e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Tatashin Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:36:14 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm: set fields in deferred pages Without deferred struct page feature (CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT), flags and other fields in "struct page"es are never changed prior to first initializing struct pages by going through __init_single_page(). With deferred struct page feature enabled, however, we set fields in register_page_bootmem_info that are subsequently clobbered right after in free_all_bootmem: mem_init() { register_page_bootmem_info(); free_all_bootmem(); ... } When register_page_bootmem_info() is called only non-deferred struct pages are initialized. But, this function goes through some reserved pages which might be part of the deferred, and thus are not yet initialized. mem_init register_page_bootmem_info register_page_bootmem_info_node get_page_bootmem .. setting fields here .. such as: page->freelist = (void *)type; free_all_bootmem() free_low_memory_core_early() for_each_reserved_mem_region() reserve_bootmem_region() init_reserved_page() <- Only if this is deferred reserved page __init_single_pfn() __init_single_page() memset(0) <-- Loose the set fields here We end up with issue where, currently we do not observe problem as memory is explicitly zeroed. But, if flag asserts are changed we can start hitting issues. Also, because in this patch series we will stop zeroing struct page memory during allocation, we must make sure that struct pages are properly initialized prior to using them. The deferred-reserved pages are initialized in free_all_bootmem(). Therefore, the fix is to switch the above calls. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013173214.27300-3-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan Reviewed-by: Bob Picco Tested-by: Bob Picco Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index 5fa3a58b5d786..c3fc544b50d27 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -1173,12 +1173,18 @@ void __init mem_init(void) /* clear_bss() already clear the empty_zero_page */ - register_page_bootmem_info(); - /* this will put all memory onto the freelists */ free_all_bootmem(); after_bootmem = 1; + /* + * Must be done after boot memory is put on freelist, because here we + * might set fields in deferred struct pages that have not yet been + * initialized, and free_all_bootmem() initializes all the reserved + * deferred pages for us. + */ + register_page_bootmem_info(); + /* Register memory areas for /proc/kcore */ kclist_add(&kcore_vsyscall, (void *)VSYSCALL_ADDR, PAGE_SIZE, KCORE_OTHER); -- 2.39.5