[PATCH] arm64: mm: call pagetable dtor when freeing hot-removed page tables

[PATCH] arm64: mm: call pagetable dtor when freeing hot-removed page tables

[Alistair Popple]

Since 5e8eb9aeeda3 ("arm64: mm: always call PTE/PMD ctor in
__create_pgd_mapping()") page-table allocation on ARM64 always
calls pagetable_{pte,pmd,pud,p4d}_ctor(). This sets the page_type
to PGTY_table, increments NR_PAGETABLE and possible allocates a PTL.
However the matching pagetable_dtor() calls were never added.

With DEBUG_VM enabled on kernel versions prior to v6.17 without
2dfcd1608f3a9 ("mm/page_alloc: let page freeing clear any set page
type") this leads to the following warning when freeing these pages due
to page->page_type sharing page->_mapcount:

  BUG: Bad page state in process ... pfn:284fbb
  page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x284fbb
  flags: 0x17fffc000000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1ffff)
  page_type: f2(table)
  page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
  Call trace:
   bad_page+0x13c/0x160
   __free_frozen_pages+0x6cc/0x860
   ___free_pages+0xf4/0x180
   free_pages+0x54/0x80
   free_hotplug_page_range.part.0+0x58/0x90
   free_empty_tables+0x438/0x500
   __remove_pgd_mapping.constprop.0+0x60/0xa8
   arch_remove_memory+0x48/0x80
   try_remove_memory+0x158/0x1d8
   offline_and_remove_memory+0x138/0x180

It can also lead to leaking the ptl allocation if ALLOC_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
is defined and incorrect NR_PAGETABLE stats. Fix this by calling
pagetable_dtor() in free_hotplug_pgtable_page() prior to freeing the
page to undo the effects of calling pagetable_*_ctor().

Fixes: 5e8eb9aeeda3 ("arm64: mm: always call PTE/PMD ctor in __create_pgd_mapping()")
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 8e1d80a7033e..0c24fe650e95 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ static void free_hotplug_page_range(struct page *page, size_t size,
 
 static void free_hotplug_pgtable_page(struct page *page)
 {
+	pagetable_dtor(page_ptdesc(page));
 	free_hotplug_page_range(page, PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
 }
 
-- 
2.54.0

Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: call pagetable dtor when freeing hot-removed page tables

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 21 May 2026 13:27:30 +1000 Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> wrote:

> Since 5e8eb9aeeda3 ("arm64: mm: always call PTE/PMD ctor in
> __create_pgd_mapping()") page-table allocation on ARM64 always
> calls pagetable_{pte,pmd,pud,p4d}_ctor(). This sets the page_type
> to PGTY_table, increments NR_PAGETABLE and possible allocates a PTL.
> However the matching pagetable_dtor() calls were never added.
> 
> With DEBUG_VM enabled on kernel versions prior to v6.17 without
> 2dfcd1608f3a9 ("mm/page_alloc: let page freeing clear any set page
> type") this leads to the following warning when freeing these pages due
> to page->page_type sharing page->_mapcount:
> 
>   BUG: Bad page state in process ... pfn:284fbb
>   page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x284fbb
>   flags: 0x17fffc000000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1ffff)
>   page_type: f2(table)
>   page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
>   Call trace:
>    bad_page+0x13c/0x160
>    __free_frozen_pages+0x6cc/0x860
>    ___free_pages+0xf4/0x180
>    free_pages+0x54/0x80
>    free_hotplug_page_range.part.0+0x58/0x90
>    free_empty_tables+0x438/0x500
>    __remove_pgd_mapping.constprop.0+0x60/0xa8
>    arch_remove_memory+0x48/0x80
>    try_remove_memory+0x158/0x1d8
>    offline_and_remove_memory+0x138/0x180
> 
> It can also lead to leaking the ptl allocation if ALLOC_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
> is defined and incorrect NR_PAGETABLE stats. Fix this by calling
> pagetable_dtor() in free_hotplug_pgtable_page() prior to freeing the
> page to undo the effects of calling pagetable_*_ctor().
> 
> Fixes: 5e8eb9aeeda3 ("arm64: mm: always call PTE/PMD ctor in __create_pgd_mapping()")

6.16+, so I assume we want cc:stable here.

>  arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index 8e1d80a7033e..0c24fe650e95 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ static void free_hotplug_page_range(struct page *page, size_t size,
>  
>  static void free_hotplug_pgtable_page(struct page *page)
>  {
> +	pagetable_dtor(page_ptdesc(page));
>  	free_hotplug_page_range(page, PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
>  }

I'd of course prefer that arm maintainers handle this.  But
5e8eb9aeeda3 came via myself so convention kinda-dictates that I get to
fix it.

Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: call pagetable dtor when freeing hot-removed page tables

[Alistair Popple]

On 2026-05-22 at 08:31 +1000, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote...
> On Thu, 21 May 2026 13:27:30 +1000 Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> wrote:
> 
> > Since 5e8eb9aeeda3 ("arm64: mm: always call PTE/PMD ctor in
> > __create_pgd_mapping()") page-table allocation on ARM64 always
> > calls pagetable_{pte,pmd,pud,p4d}_ctor(). This sets the page_type
> > to PGTY_table, increments NR_PAGETABLE and possible allocates a PTL.
> > However the matching pagetable_dtor() calls were never added.
> > 
> > With DEBUG_VM enabled on kernel versions prior to v6.17 without
> > 2dfcd1608f3a9 ("mm/page_alloc: let page freeing clear any set page
> > type") this leads to the following warning when freeing these pages due
> > to page->page_type sharing page->_mapcount:
> > 
> >   BUG: Bad page state in process ... pfn:284fbb
> >   page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x284fbb
> >   flags: 0x17fffc000000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1ffff)
> >   page_type: f2(table)
> >   page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
> >   Call trace:
> >    bad_page+0x13c/0x160
> >    __free_frozen_pages+0x6cc/0x860
> >    ___free_pages+0xf4/0x180
> >    free_pages+0x54/0x80
> >    free_hotplug_page_range.part.0+0x58/0x90
> >    free_empty_tables+0x438/0x500
> >    __remove_pgd_mapping.constprop.0+0x60/0xa8
> >    arch_remove_memory+0x48/0x80
> >    try_remove_memory+0x158/0x1d8
> >    offline_and_remove_memory+0x138/0x180
> > 
> > It can also lead to leaking the ptl allocation if ALLOC_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
> > is defined and incorrect NR_PAGETABLE stats. Fix this by calling
> > pagetable_dtor() in free_hotplug_pgtable_page() prior to freeing the
> > page to undo the effects of calling pagetable_*_ctor().
> > 
> > Fixes: 5e8eb9aeeda3 ("arm64: mm: always call PTE/PMD ctor in __create_pgd_mapping()")
> 
> 6.16+, so I assume we want cc:stable here.

Yes indeed. Sorry I forgot to do that but I can see you added it so thanks for
that.

 - Alistair

> >  arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > index 8e1d80a7033e..0c24fe650e95 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > @@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ static void free_hotplug_page_range(struct page *page, size_t size,
> >  
> >  static void free_hotplug_pgtable_page(struct page *page)
> >  {
> > +	pagetable_dtor(page_ptdesc(page));
> >  	free_hotplug_page_range(page, PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
> >  }
> 
> I'd of course prefer that arm maintainers handle this.  But
> 5e8eb9aeeda3 came via myself so convention kinda-dictates that I get to
> fix it.
> 

Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: call pagetable dtor when freeing hot-removed page tables

[Catalin Marinas]

On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 03:31:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 2026 13:27:30 +1000 Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> wrote:
> > Since 5e8eb9aeeda3 ("arm64: mm: always call PTE/PMD ctor in
> > __create_pgd_mapping()") page-table allocation on ARM64 always
> > calls pagetable_{pte,pmd,pud,p4d}_ctor(). This sets the page_type
> > to PGTY_table, increments NR_PAGETABLE and possible allocates a PTL.
> > However the matching pagetable_dtor() calls were never added.
> > 
> > With DEBUG_VM enabled on kernel versions prior to v6.17 without
> > 2dfcd1608f3a9 ("mm/page_alloc: let page freeing clear any set page
> > type") this leads to the following warning when freeing these pages due
> > to page->page_type sharing page->_mapcount:
> > 
> >   BUG: Bad page state in process ... pfn:284fbb
> >   page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x284fbb
> >   flags: 0x17fffc000000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1ffff)
> >   page_type: f2(table)
> >   page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
> >   Call trace:
> >    bad_page+0x13c/0x160
> >    __free_frozen_pages+0x6cc/0x860
> >    ___free_pages+0xf4/0x180
> >    free_pages+0x54/0x80
> >    free_hotplug_page_range.part.0+0x58/0x90
> >    free_empty_tables+0x438/0x500
> >    __remove_pgd_mapping.constprop.0+0x60/0xa8
> >    arch_remove_memory+0x48/0x80
> >    try_remove_memory+0x158/0x1d8
> >    offline_and_remove_memory+0x138/0x180
> > 
> > It can also lead to leaking the ptl allocation if ALLOC_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
> > is defined and incorrect NR_PAGETABLE stats. Fix this by calling
> > pagetable_dtor() in free_hotplug_pgtable_page() prior to freeing the
> > page to undo the effects of calling pagetable_*_ctor().
> > 
> > Fixes: 5e8eb9aeeda3 ("arm64: mm: always call PTE/PMD ctor in __create_pgd_mapping()")
> 
> 6.16+, so I assume we want cc:stable here.
> 
> >  arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > index 8e1d80a7033e..0c24fe650e95 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > @@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ static void free_hotplug_page_range(struct page *page, size_t size,
> >  
> >  static void free_hotplug_pgtable_page(struct page *page)
> >  {
> > +	pagetable_dtor(page_ptdesc(page));
> >  	free_hotplug_page_range(page, PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
> >  }
> 
> I'd of course prefer that arm maintainers handle this.  But
> 5e8eb9aeeda3 came via myself so convention kinda-dictates that I get to
> fix it.

That's fine but Sashiko has some points:

https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260521032730.2104017-1-apopple@nvidia.com

The __remove_pgd_mapping() path is fine but we also have the
vmemmap_free() path where the constructor was never called.

We could pass around a bool dtor argument but I wonder whether we could
just check it's a pgtable page:

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 4c8959153ac4..9d42cbddce27 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1441,6 +1441,9 @@ static void free_hotplug_page_range(struct page *page, size_t size,
 
 static void free_hotplug_pgtable_page(struct page *page)
 {
+	if (folio_test_pgtable(page_folio(page)))
+		pagetable_dtor(page_ptdesc(page));
+
 	free_hotplug_page_range(page, PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
 }
 

-- 
Catalin

Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: call pagetable dtor when freeing hot-removed page tables

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 03:31:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 May 2026 13:27:30 +1000 Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > > index 8e1d80a7033e..0c24fe650e95 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > > @@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ static void free_hotplug_page_range(struct page *page, size_t size,
> > >  
> > >  static void free_hotplug_pgtable_page(struct page *page)
> > >  {
> > > +	pagetable_dtor(page_ptdesc(page));
> > >  	free_hotplug_page_range(page, PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
> > >  }
> > 
> > I'd of course prefer that arm maintainers handle this.  But
> > 5e8eb9aeeda3 came via myself so convention kinda-dictates that I get to
> > fix it.
> 
> That's fine but Sashiko has some points:
> 
> https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260521032730.2104017-1-apopple@nvidia.com

The other Sashiko find looks like a false positive. vmemmap_*_populate()
do not allocate the page table from altmap, only the page pointed at by
the vmemmap pte.

-- 
Catalin