From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] memory-hotplug: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:34:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xa1tk3vzh6m6.fsf@mina86.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347414231-31451-2-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org>
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On Wed, Sep 12 2012, Minchan Kim wrote:
> [1] reporeted that lowmem pages could be replaced by
> highmem pages during migration of CMA and fixed.
>
> Quote from [1]'s description
> "
> The filesystem layer expects pages in the block device's mapping to not
> be in highmem (the mapping's gfp mask is set in bdget()), but CMA can
> currently replace lowmem pages with highmem pages, leading to crashes in
> filesystem code such as the one below:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000400
> pgd = c0c98000
> [00000400] *pgd=00c91831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
> Internal error: Oops: 817 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
> CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.5.0-rc5+ #80)
> PC is at __memzero+0x24/0x80
> ...
> Process fsstress (pid: 323, stack limit = 0xc0cbc2f0)
> Backtrace:
> [<c010e3f0>] (ext4_getblk+0x0/0x180) from [<c010e58c>] (ext4_bread+0x1c/0x98)
> [<c010e570>] (ext4_bread+0x0/0x98) from [<c0117944>] (ext4_mkdir+0x160/0x3bc)
> r4:c15337f0
> [<c01177e4>] (ext4_mkdir+0x0/0x3bc) from [<c00c29e0>] (vfs_mkdir+0x8c/0x98)
> [<c00c2954>] (vfs_mkdir+0x0/0x98) from [<c00c2a60>] (sys_mkdirat+0x74/0xac)
> r6:00000000 r5:c152eb40 r4:000001ff r3:c14b43f0
> [<c00c29ec>] (sys_mkdirat+0x0/0xac) from [<c00c2ab8>] (sys_mkdir+0x20/0x24)
> r6:beccdcf0 r5:00074000 r4:beccdbbc
> [<c00c2a98>] (sys_mkdir+0x0/0x24) from [<c000e3c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)
> "
>
> Memory-hotplug has same problem with CMA so [1]'s fix could be applied
> with memory-hotplug, too.
>
> Fix it by reusing.
>
> [1] 6a6dccba2, mm: cma: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem
>
> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Looks legit:
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
I also like how both of the patches cumulatively have negative delta. :]
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
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Best regards, _ _
.o. | Liege of Serenely Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o
..o | Computer Science, Michał “mina86” Nazarewicz (o o)
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From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] memory-hotplug: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:34:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xa1tk3vzh6m6.fsf@mina86.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347414231-31451-2-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org>
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On Wed, Sep 12 2012, Minchan Kim wrote:
> [1] reporeted that lowmem pages could be replaced by
> highmem pages during migration of CMA and fixed.
>
> Quote from [1]'s description
> "
> The filesystem layer expects pages in the block device's mapping to not
> be in highmem (the mapping's gfp mask is set in bdget()), but CMA can
> currently replace lowmem pages with highmem pages, leading to crashes in
> filesystem code such as the one below:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000400
> pgd = c0c98000
> [00000400] *pgd=00c91831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
> Internal error: Oops: 817 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
> CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.5.0-rc5+ #80)
> PC is at __memzero+0x24/0x80
> ...
> Process fsstress (pid: 323, stack limit = 0xc0cbc2f0)
> Backtrace:
> [<c010e3f0>] (ext4_getblk+0x0/0x180) from [<c010e58c>] (ext4_bread+0x1c/0x98)
> [<c010e570>] (ext4_bread+0x0/0x98) from [<c0117944>] (ext4_mkdir+0x160/0x3bc)
> r4:c15337f0
> [<c01177e4>] (ext4_mkdir+0x0/0x3bc) from [<c00c29e0>] (vfs_mkdir+0x8c/0x98)
> [<c00c2954>] (vfs_mkdir+0x0/0x98) from [<c00c2a60>] (sys_mkdirat+0x74/0xac)
> r6:00000000 r5:c152eb40 r4:000001ff r3:c14b43f0
> [<c00c29ec>] (sys_mkdirat+0x0/0xac) from [<c00c2ab8>] (sys_mkdir+0x20/0x24)
> r6:beccdcf0 r5:00074000 r4:beccdbbc
> [<c00c2a98>] (sys_mkdir+0x0/0x24) from [<c000e3c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)
> "
>
> Memory-hotplug has same problem with CMA so [1]'s fix could be applied
> with memory-hotplug, too.
>
> Fix it by reusing.
>
> [1] 6a6dccba2, mm: cma: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem
>
> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Looks legit:
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
I also like how both of the patches cumulatively have negative delta. :]
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
--
Best regards, _ _
.o. | Liege of Serenely Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o
..o | Computer Science, Michał “mina86” Nazarewicz (o o)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-12 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 1:43 [PATCH 1/2] mm: refactor out __alloc_contig_migrate_alloc Minchan Kim
2012-09-12 1:43 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-12 1:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] memory-hotplug: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem Minchan Kim
2012-09-12 1:43 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-12 10:34 ` Michal Nazarewicz [this message]
2012-09-12 10:34 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-09-12 21:32 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-12 21:32 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-13 0:05 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-13 0:05 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-13 1:58 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-13 1:58 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-13 2:16 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-13 2:16 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-12 10:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: refactor out __alloc_contig_migrate_alloc Michal Nazarewicz
2012-09-12 10:32 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-09-13 1:57 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-13 1:57 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-13 2:14 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-13 2:14 ` David Rientjes
2012-09-14 6:32 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-14 6:32 ` Wen Congyang
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