From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v3 08/11] mm/memory: convert print_bad_pte() to print_bad_page_map()
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:26:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250811112631.759341-9-david@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250811112631.759341-1-david@redhat.com>
print_bad_pte() looks like something that should actually be a WARN
or similar, but historically it apparently has proven to be useful to
detect corruption of page tables even on production systems -- report
the issue and keep the system running to make it easier to actually detect
what is going wrong (e.g., multiple such messages might shed a light).
As we want to unify vm_normal_page_*() handling for PTE/PMD/PUD, we'll have
to take care of print_bad_pte() as well.
Let's prepare for using print_bad_pte() also for non-PTEs by adjusting the
implementation and renaming the function to print_bad_page_map().
Provide print_bad_pte() as a simple wrapper.
Document the implicit locking requirements for the page table re-walk.
To make the function a bit more readable, factor out the ratelimit check
into is_bad_page_map_ratelimited() and place the printing of page
table content into __print_bad_page_map_pgtable(). We'll now dump
information from each level in a single line, and just stop the table
walk once we hit something that is not a present page table.
The report will now look something like (dumping pgd to pmd values):
[ 77.943408] BUG: Bad page map in process XXX pte:80000001233f5867
[ 77.944077] addr:00007fd84bb1c000 vm_flags:08100071 anon_vma: ...
[ 77.945186] pgd:10a89f067 p4d:10a89f067 pud:10e5a2067 pmd:105327067
Not using pgdp_get(), because that does not work properly on some arm
configs where pgd_t is an array. Note that we are dumping all levels
even when levels are folded for simplicity.
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
include/linux/pgtable.h | 19 ++++++++
mm/memory.c | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index bff5c4241bf2e..33c84b38b7ec6 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -1966,6 +1966,25 @@ enum pgtable_level {
PGTABLE_LEVEL_PGD,
};
+static inline const char *pgtable_level_to_str(enum pgtable_level level)
+{
+ switch (level) {
+ case PGTABLE_LEVEL_PTE:
+ return "pte";
+ case PGTABLE_LEVEL_PMD:
+ return "pmd";
+ case PGTABLE_LEVEL_PUD:
+ return "pud";
+ case PGTABLE_LEVEL_P4D:
+ return "p4d";
+ case PGTABLE_LEVEL_PGD:
+ return "pgd";
+ default:
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ return "unknown";
+ }
+}
+
#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
#if !defined(MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS) && !defined(CONFIG_64BIT)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 626caedce35e0..dc0107354d37b 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -491,22 +491,8 @@ static inline void add_mm_rss_vec(struct mm_struct *mm, int *rss)
add_mm_counter(mm, i, rss[i]);
}
-/*
- * This function is called to print an error when a bad pte
- * is found. For example, we might have a PFN-mapped pte in
- * a region that doesn't allow it.
- *
- * The calling function must still handle the error.
- */
-static void print_bad_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
- pte_t pte, struct page *page)
+static bool is_bad_page_map_ratelimited(void)
{
- pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset(vma->vm_mm, addr);
- p4d_t *p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, addr);
- pud_t *pud = pud_offset(p4d, addr);
- pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
- struct address_space *mapping;
- pgoff_t index;
static unsigned long resume;
static unsigned long nr_shown;
static unsigned long nr_unshown;
@@ -518,7 +504,7 @@ static void print_bad_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
if (nr_shown == 60) {
if (time_before(jiffies, resume)) {
nr_unshown++;
- return;
+ return true;
}
if (nr_unshown) {
pr_alert("BUG: Bad page map: %lu messages suppressed\n",
@@ -529,15 +515,91 @@ static void print_bad_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
}
if (nr_shown++ == 0)
resume = jiffies + 60 * HZ;
+ return false;
+}
+
+static void __print_bad_page_map_pgtable(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
+{
+ unsigned long long pgdv, p4dv, pudv, pmdv;
+ p4d_t p4d, *p4dp;
+ pud_t pud, *pudp;
+ pmd_t pmd, *pmdp;
+ pgd_t *pgdp;
+
+ /*
+ * Although this looks like a fully lockless pgtable walk, it is not:
+ * see locking requirements for print_bad_page_map().
+ */
+ pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
+ pgdv = pgd_val(*pgdp);
+
+ if (!pgd_present(*pgdp) || pgd_leaf(*pgdp)) {
+ pr_alert("pgd:%08llx\n", pgdv);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ p4dp = p4d_offset(pgdp, addr);
+ p4d = p4dp_get(p4dp);
+ p4dv = p4d_val(p4d);
+
+ if (!p4d_present(p4d) || p4d_leaf(p4d)) {
+ pr_alert("pgd:%08llx p4d:%08llx\n", pgdv, p4dv);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ pudp = pud_offset(p4dp, addr);
+ pud = pudp_get(pudp);
+ pudv = pud_val(pud);
+
+ if (!pud_present(pud) || pud_leaf(pud)) {
+ pr_alert("pgd:%08llx p4d:%08llx pud:%08llx\n", pgdv, p4dv, pudv);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ pmdp = pmd_offset(pudp, addr);
+ pmd = pmdp_get(pmdp);
+ pmdv = pmd_val(pmd);
+
+ /*
+ * Dumping the PTE would be nice, but it's tricky with CONFIG_HIGHPTE,
+ * because the table should already be mapped by the caller and
+ * doing another map would be bad. print_bad_page_map() should
+ * already take care of printing the PTE.
+ */
+ pr_alert("pgd:%08llx p4d:%08llx pud:%08llx pmd:%08llx\n", pgdv,
+ p4dv, pudv, pmdv);
+}
+
+/*
+ * This function is called to print an error when a bad page table entry (e.g.,
+ * corrupted page table entry) is found. For example, we might have a
+ * PFN-mapped pte in a region that doesn't allow it.
+ *
+ * The calling function must still handle the error.
+ *
+ * This function must be called during a proper page table walk, as it will
+ * re-walk the page table to dump information: the caller MUST prevent page
+ * table teardown (by holding mmap, vma or rmap lock) and MUST hold the leaf
+ * page table lock.
+ */
+static void print_bad_page_map(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, unsigned long long entry, struct page *page,
+ enum pgtable_level level)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping;
+ pgoff_t index;
+
+ if (is_bad_page_map_ratelimited())
+ return;
mapping = vma->vm_file ? vma->vm_file->f_mapping : NULL;
index = linear_page_index(vma, addr);
- pr_alert("BUG: Bad page map in process %s pte:%08llx pmd:%08llx\n",
- current->comm,
- (long long)pte_val(pte), (long long)pmd_val(*pmd));
+ pr_alert("BUG: Bad page map in process %s %s:%08llx", current->comm,
+ pgtable_level_to_str(level), entry);
+ __print_bad_page_map_pgtable(vma->vm_mm, addr);
if (page)
- dump_page(page, "bad pte");
+ dump_page(page, "bad page map");
pr_alert("addr:%px vm_flags:%08lx anon_vma:%px mapping:%px index:%lx\n",
(void *)addr, vma->vm_flags, vma->anon_vma, mapping, index);
pr_alert("file:%pD fault:%ps mmap:%ps mmap_prepare: %ps read_folio:%ps\n",
@@ -549,6 +611,8 @@ static void print_bad_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
dump_stack();
add_taint(TAINT_BAD_PAGE, LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE);
}
+#define print_bad_pte(vma, addr, pte, page) \
+ print_bad_page_map(vma, addr, pte_val(pte), page, PGTABLE_LEVEL_PTE)
/*
* vm_normal_page -- This function gets the "struct page" associated with a pte.
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-11 11:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-11 11:26 [PATCH v3 00/11] mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] mm/huge_memory: move more common code into insert_pmd() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 4:52 ` Lance Yang
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] mm/huge_memory: move more common code into insert_pud() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] mm/huge_memory: support huge zero folio in vmf_insert_folio_pmd() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] fs/dax: use vmf_insert_folio_pmd() to insert the huge zero folio David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 18:14 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] powerpc/ptdump: rename "struct pgtable_level" to "struct ptdump_pglevel" David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 18:23 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-12 18:39 ` Christophe Leroy
2025-08-12 18:54 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-26 16:28 ` Ritesh Harjani
2025-08-27 13:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] mm/rmap: convert "enum rmap_level" to "enum pgtable_level" David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 18:33 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-11 11:26 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2025-08-12 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] mm/memory: convert print_bad_pte() to print_bad_page_map() Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-25 12:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-26 5:25 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-26 6:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] mm/memory: factor out common code from vm_normal_page_*() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 19:06 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] mm: introduce and use vm_normal_page_pud() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 19:38 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] mm: rename vm_ops->find_special_page() to vm_ops->find_normal_page() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 19:43 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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