From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>,
Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>, Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Ayden Bottos <aydenbottos12@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] xen/mm: don't unconditionally clear PGC_need_scrub in alloc_heap_pages()
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:51:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260326085145.61380-2-roger.pau@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260326085145.61380-1-roger.pau@citrix.com>
alloc_heap_pages() will unconditionally clear PGC_need_scrub, even when
MEMF_no_scrub is requested. This is kind of expected as otherwise some
callers will assert on seeing non-expected flags set on the count_info
field.
Introduce a new MEMF bit to signal to alloc_heap_pages() that non-scrubbed
pages should keep the PGC_need_scrub bit set. This fixes returning dirty
pages from alloc_domheap_pages() without the PGC_need_scrub bit set for
populate_physmap() to consume.
With the above change alloc_domheap_pages() needs an adjustment to cope
with allocated pages possibly having the PGC_need_scrub set.
Fixes: 83a784a15b47 ("xen/mm: allow deferred scrub of physmap populate allocated pages")
Reported-by: Ayden Bottos <aydenbottos12@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
---
xen/common/memory.c | 3 ++-
xen/common/page_alloc.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
xen/include/xen/mm.h | 3 +++
3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/xen/common/memory.c b/xen/common/memory.c
index 918510f287a0..f0ff1311881c 100644
--- a/xen/common/memory.c
+++ b/xen/common/memory.c
@@ -345,7 +345,8 @@ static void populate_physmap(struct memop_args *a)
unsigned int scrub_start = 0;
unsigned int memflags =
a->memflags | (d->creation_finished ? 0
- : MEMF_no_scrub);
+ : (MEMF_no_scrub |
+ MEMF_keep_scrub));
nodeid_t node =
(a->memflags & MEMF_exact_node) ? MEMF_get_node(a->memflags)
: NUMA_NO_NODE;
diff --git a/xen/common/page_alloc.c b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
index 588b5b99cbc7..1316dfbd15ee 100644
--- a/xen/common/page_alloc.c
+++ b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
@@ -989,6 +989,8 @@ static struct page_info *alloc_heap_pages(
ASSERT(zone_lo <= zone_hi);
ASSERT(zone_hi < NR_ZONES);
+ ASSERT(!(memflags & MEMF_keep_scrub) || (memflags & MEMF_no_scrub));
+
if ( unlikely(order > MAX_ORDER) )
return NULL;
@@ -1110,17 +1112,26 @@ static struct page_info *alloc_heap_pages(
{
bool cold = d && d != current->domain;
- for ( i = 0; i < (1U << order); i++ )
+ if ( !(memflags & MEMF_no_scrub) )
{
- if ( test_and_clear_bit(_PGC_need_scrub, &pg[i].count_info) )
+ for ( i = 0; i < (1U << order); i++ )
{
- if ( !(memflags & MEMF_no_scrub) )
+ if ( test_and_clear_bit(_PGC_need_scrub, &pg[i].count_info) )
+ {
scrub_one_page(&pg[i], cold);
-
- dirty_cnt++;
+ dirty_cnt++;
+ }
+ else
+ check_one_page(&pg[i]);
}
- else if ( !(memflags & MEMF_no_scrub) )
- check_one_page(&pg[i]);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ for ( i = 0; i < (1U << order); i++ )
+ if ( (memflags & MEMF_keep_scrub)
+ ? test_bit(_PGC_need_scrub, &pg[i].count_info)
+ : test_and_clear_bit(_PGC_need_scrub, &pg[i].count_info) )
+ dirty_cnt++;
}
if ( dirty_cnt )
@@ -2696,8 +2707,10 @@ struct page_info *alloc_domheap_pages(
for ( i = 0; i < (1UL << order); i++ )
{
- ASSERT(!pg[i].count_info);
- pg[i].count_info = PGC_extra;
+ ASSERT(!(pg[i].count_info &
+ ~((memflags & MEMF_keep_scrub) ? PGC_need_scrub
+ : 0UL)));
+ pg[i].count_info |= PGC_extra;
}
}
if ( assign_page(pg, order, d, memflags) )
diff --git a/xen/include/xen/mm.h b/xen/include/xen/mm.h
index d80bfba6d393..5e786c874a73 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/mm.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/mm.h
@@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ struct npfec {
#define MEMF_no_refcount (1U<<_MEMF_no_refcount)
#define _MEMF_populate_on_demand 1
#define MEMF_populate_on_demand (1U<<_MEMF_populate_on_demand)
+/* MEMF_keep_scrub is only valid when specified together with MEMF_no_scrub. */
+#define _MEMF_keep_scrub 2
+#define MEMF_keep_scrub (1U << _MEMF_keep_scrub)
#define _MEMF_no_dma 3
#define MEMF_no_dma (1U<<_MEMF_no_dma)
#define _MEMF_exact_node 4
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-26 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-26 8:51 [PATCH v2 0/3] xen/mm: fix fallout from populate_physmap() deferred scrub change Roger Pau Monne
2026-03-26 8:51 ` Roger Pau Monne [this message]
2026-03-26 8:51 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] xen/mm: do not assign pages to a domain until they are scrubbed Roger Pau Monne
2026-03-26 11:51 ` Jan Beulich
2026-03-26 8:51 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] xen/mm: improve freeing of partially scrubbed pages Roger Pau Monne
2026-03-26 11:50 ` Jan Beulich
2026-03-26 15:53 ` Roger Pau Monné
2026-03-26 16:05 ` Jan Beulich
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