linux-toradex.git/mm/memory_hotplug.c, branch v4.4.93

base/memory, hotplug: fix a kernel oops in show_valid_zones()

2017-02-09T07:02:47+00:00

commit a96dfddbcc04336bbed50dc2b24823e45e09e80c upstream.

Reading a sysfs "memoryN/valid_zones" file leads to the following oops
when the first page of a range is not backed by struct page.
show_valid_zones() assumes that 'start_pfn' is always valid for
page_zone().

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea017a000000
 IP: show_valid_zones+0x6f/0x160

This issue may happen on x86-64 systems with 64GiB or more memory since
their memory block size is bumped up to 2GiB.  [1] An example of such
systems is desribed below.  0x3240000000 is only aligned by 1GiB and
this memory block starts from 0x3200000000, which is not backed by
struct page.

 BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000003240000000-0x000000603fffffff] usable

Since test_pages_in_a_zone() already checks holes, fix this issue by
extending this function to return 'valid_start' and 'valid_end' for a
given range.  show_valid_zones() then proceeds with the valid range.

[1] 'Commit bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on
    large-memory x86-64 systems")'

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127222149.30893-3-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Zhang Zhen 
Cc: Reza Arbab 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: 	[4.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/memory_hotplug.c: check start_pfn in test_pages_in_a_zone()

2017-02-09T07:02:45+00:00

commit deb88a2a19e85842d79ba96b05031739ec327ff4 upstream.

Patch series "fix a kernel oops when reading sysfs valid_zones", v2.

A sysfs memory file is created for each 2GiB memory block on x86-64 when
the system has 64GiB or more memory.  [1] When the start address of a
memory block is not backed by struct page, i.e.  a memory range is not
aligned by 2GiB, reading its 'valid_zones' attribute file leads to a
kernel oops.  This issue was observed on multiple x86-64 systems with
more than 64GiB of memory.  This patch-set fixes this issue.

Patch 1 first fixes an issue in test_pages_in_a_zone(), which does not
test the start section.

Patch 2 then fixes the kernel oops by extending test_pages_in_a_zone()
to return valid [start, end).

Note for stable kernels: The memory block size change was made by commit
bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on large-memory x86-64
systems"), which was accepted to 3.9.  However, this patch-set depends
on (and fixes) the change to test_pages_in_a_zone() made by commit
5f0f2887f4de ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: check for missing sections in
test_pages_in_a_zone()"), which was accepted to 4.4.

So, I recommend that we backport it up to 4.4.

[1] 'Commit bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on
    large-memory x86-64 systems")'

This patch (of 2):

test_pages_in_a_zone() does not check 'start_pfn' when it is aligned by
section since 'sec_end_pfn' is set equal to 'pfn'.  Since this function
is called for testing the range of a sysfs memory file, 'start_pfn' is
always aligned by section.

Fix it by properly setting 'sec_end_pfn' to the next section pfn.

Also make sure that this function returns 1 only when the range belongs
to a zone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127222149.30893-2-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani 
Cc: Andrew Banman 
Cc: Reza Arbab 
Cc: Greg KH 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/memory_hotplug.c: check for missing sections in test_pages_in_a_zone()

2015-12-30T01:45:49+00:00

test_pages_in_a_zone() does not account for the possibility of missing
sections in the given pfn range.  pfn_valid_within always returns 1 when
CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is not set, allowing invalid pfns from missing
sections to pass the test, leading to a kernel oops.

Wrap an additional pfn loop with PAGES_PER_SECTION granularity to check
for missing sections before proceeding into the zone-check code.

This also prevents a crash from offlining memory devices with missing
sections.  Despite this, it may be a good idea to keep the related patch
'[PATCH 3/3] drivers: memory: prohibit offlining of memory blocks with
missing sections' because missing sections in a memory block may lead to
other problems not covered by the scope of this fix.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Banman 
Acked-by: Alex Thorlton 
Cc: Russ Anderson 
Cc: Alex Thorlton 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Seth Jennings 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc: remove unused parameter in init_currently_empty_zone()

2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00

Commit a2f3aa025766 ("[PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell") fixed an oops
experienced on the Cell architecture when init-time functions,
early_*(), are called at runtime by introducing an 'enum memmap_context'
parameter to memmap_init_zone() and init_currently_empty_zone().  This
parameter is intended to be used to tell whether the call of these two
functions is being made on behalf of a hotplug event, or happening at
boot-time.  However, init_currently_empty_zone() does not use this
parameter at all, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memory hotplug with an existing resource

2015-10-23T13:19:58+00:00

Add add_memory_resource() to add memory using an existing "System RAM"
resource.  This is useful if the memory region is being located by
finding a free resource slot with allocate_resource().

Xen guests will make use of this in their balloon driver to hotplug
arbitrary amounts of memory in response to toolstack requests.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper 
Reviewed-by: Tang Chen

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2015-09-08T21:35:59+00:00

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to ->direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...

memory-hotplug: add hot-added memory ranges to memblock before allocate node_data for a node.

2015-09-04T23:54:41+00:00

Commit f9126ab9241f ("memory-hotplug: fix wrong edge when hot add a new
node") hot-added memory range to memblock, after creating pgdat for new
node.

But there is a problem:

  add_memory()
  |--> hotadd_new_pgdat()
       |--> free_area_init_node()
            |--> get_pfn_range_for_nid()
                 |--> find start_pfn and end_pfn in memblock
  |--> ......
  |--> memblock_add_node(start, size, nid)    --------    Here, just too late.

get_pfn_range_for_nid() will find that start_pfn and end_pfn are both 0.
As a result, when adding memory, dmesg will give the following wrong
message.

  Initmem setup node 5 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff]
  On node 5 totalpages: 0
  Built 5 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 32588823
  Policy zone: Normal
  init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x60000000000-0x607ffffffff]

The solution is simple, just add the memory range to memblock a little
earlier, before hotadd_new_pgdat().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen 
Cc: Xishi Qiu 
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki 
Cc: Taku Izumi 
Cc: Gu Zheng 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: 	[4.2.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"

2015-08-27T23:40:58+00:00

While pmem is usable as a block device or via DAX mappings to userspace
there are several usage scenarios that can not target pmem due to its
lack of struct page coverage. In preparation for "hot plugging" pmem
into the vmemmap add ZONE_DEVICE as a new zone to tag these pages
separately from the ones that are subject to standard page allocations.
Importantly "device memory" can be removed at will by userspace
unbinding the driver of the device.

Having a separate zone prevents allocation and otherwise marks these
pages that are distinct from typical uniform memory.  Device memory has
different lifetime and performance characteristics than RAM.  However,
since we have run out of ZONES_SHIFT bits this functionality currently
depends on sacrificing ZONE_DMA.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Jerome Glisse 
[hch: various simplifications in the arch interface]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

memory-hotplug: fix wrong edge when hot add a new node

2015-08-14T22:56:32+00:00

When we add a new node, the edge of memory may be wrong.

e.g. system has 4 nodes, and node3 is movable, node3 mem:[24G-32G],

1. hotremove the node3,
2. then hotadd node3 with a part of memory, mem:[26G-30G],
3. call hotadd_new_pgdat()
        free_area_init_node()
                get_pfn_range_for_nid()
4. it will return wrong start_pfn and end_pfn, because we have not
update the memblock.

This patch also fixes a BUG_ON during hot-addition, please see
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142961156129456&w=2

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu 
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki 
Cc: Taku Izumi 
Cc: Tang Chen 
Cc: Gu Zheng 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: initialize hotplugged pages as reserved

2015-08-07T01:39:41+00:00

Commit 92923ca3aace ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the
memblock region") broke memory hotplug which expects the memmap for
newly added sections to be reserved until onlined by
online_pages_range().  This patch marks hotplugged pages as reserved
when adding new zones.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reported-by: David Vrabel 
Tested-by: David Vrabel 
Cc: Nathan Zimmer 
Cc: Robin Holt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds