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From: Michal Clapinski <mclapinski@google.com>
To: Evangelos Petrongonas <epetron@amazon.de>,
	Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
	 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>,
	 Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	 Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	 Michal Clapinski <mclapinski@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 2/2] kho: make preserved pages compatible with deferred struct page init
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:06:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260416110654.247398-3-mclapinski@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260416110654.247398-1-mclapinski@google.com>

From: Evangelos Petrongonas <epetron@amazon.de>

When CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is enabled, struct page
initialization is deferred to parallel kthreads that run later
in the boot process.

During KHO restoration, kho_preserved_memory_reserve() writes metadata
for each preserved memory region. However, if the struct page has not
been initialized, this write targets uninitialized memory, potentially
leading to errors like:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ...

Fix this by introducing kho_get_preserved_page(),  which ensures
all struct pages in a preserved region are initialized by calling
init_deferred_page() which is a no-op when the struct page is already
initialized.

Signed-off-by: Evangelos Petrongonas <epetron@amazon.de>
Co-developed-by: Michal Clapinski <mclapinski@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Clapinski <mclapinski@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig          |  2 --
 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig b/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
index 1a8513f16ef7..c13af38ba23a 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/Kconfig
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 
 menu "Live Update and Kexec HandOver"
-	depends on !DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
 
 config KEXEC_HANDOVER
 	bool "kexec handover"
 	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_FILE
-	depends on !DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
 	select MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH
 	select KEXEC_FILE
 	select LIBFDT
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
index a507366a2cf9..d5718bef6d4d 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
@@ -473,6 +473,31 @@ struct page *kho_restore_pages(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned long nr_pages)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kho_restore_pages);
 
+/*
+ * With CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT, struct pages in higher memory regions
+ * may not be initialized yet at the time KHO deserializes preserved memory.
+ * KHO uses the struct page to store metadata and a later initialization would
+ * overwrite it.
+ * Ensure all the struct pages in the preservation are
+ * initialized. kho_preserved_memory_reserve() marks the reservation as noinit
+ * to make sure they don't get re-initialized later.
+ */
+static struct page *__init kho_get_preserved_page(phys_addr_t phys,
+						  unsigned int order)
+{
+	unsigned long pfn = PHYS_PFN(phys);
+	int nid;
+
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT))
+		return pfn_to_page(pfn);
+
+	nid = early_pfn_to_nid(pfn);
+	for (unsigned long i = 0; i < (1UL << order); i++)
+		init_deferred_page(pfn + i, nid);
+
+	return pfn_to_page(pfn);
+}
+
 static int __init kho_preserved_memory_reserve(phys_addr_t phys,
 					       unsigned int order)
 {
@@ -481,7 +506,7 @@ static int __init kho_preserved_memory_reserve(phys_addr_t phys,
 	u64 sz;
 
 	sz = 1 << (order + PAGE_SHIFT);
-	page = phys_to_page(phys);
+	page = kho_get_preserved_page(phys, order);
 
 	/* Reserve the memory preserved in KHO in memblock */
 	memblock_reserve(phys, sz);
-- 
2.54.0.rc1.555.g9c883467ad-goog



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-16 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-16 11:06 [PATCH v8 0/2] kho: add support for deferred struct page init Michal Clapinski
2026-04-16 11:06 ` [PATCH v8 1/2] kho: fix deferred initialization of scratch areas Michal Clapinski
2026-04-16 14:45   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-16 15:06     ` Michał Cłapiński
2026-04-16 16:13       ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-20 13:11         ` Michał Cłapiński
2026-04-21  6:08           ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-21 10:20             ` Michał Cłapiński
2026-04-22  8:24               ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-23  8:41                 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-04-16 11:06 ` Michal Clapinski [this message]
2026-04-16 15:00 ` [PATCH v8 0/2] kho: add support for deferred struct page init Mike Rapoport
2026-04-16 15:23   ` Michał Cłapiński
2026-04-16 15:43     ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-20  7:47     ` Mike Rapoport

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