Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix boot with some memory above MAXMEM

Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-25T04:49:05Z

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:17:21PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> A 5-level paging capable machine can have memory above 46-bit in the
> physical address space. This memory is only addressable in the 5-level
> paging mode: we don't have enough virtual address space to create direct
> mapping for such memory in the 4-level paging mode.
>
> Currently, we fail boot completely: NULL pointer dereference in
> subsection_map_init().
>
> Skip creating a memblock for such memory instead and notify user that
> some memory is not addressable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14
> ---

Gentle ping.

It's not urgent, but it's a bug fix. Please consider applying.

> Tested with a hacked QEMU: https://gist.github.com/kiryl/d45eb54110944ff95e544972d8bdac1d
>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
> index c5399e80c59c..d320d37d0f95 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
> @@ -1280,8 +1280,8 @@ void __init e820__memory_setup(void)
>
> void __init e820__memblock_setup(void)
> {
> + u64 size, end, not_addressable = 0;
> int i;
> - u64 end;
>
> /*
> * The bootstrap memblock region count maximum is 128 entries
> @@ -1307,7 +1307,22 @@ void __init e820__memblock_setup(void)
> if (entry->type != E820_TYPE_RAM && entry->type != E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN)
> continue;
>
> - memblock_add(entry->addr, entry->size);
> + if (entry->addr >= MAXMEM) {
> + not_addressable += entry->size;
> + continue;
> + }
> +
> + end = min_t(u64, end, MAXMEM - 1);
> + size = end - entry->addr;
> + not_addressable += entry->size - size;
> + memblock_add(entry->addr, size);
> + }
> +
> + if (not_addressable) {
> + pr_err("%lldGB of physical memory is not addressable in the paging mode\n",
> + not_addressable >> 30);
> + if (!pgtable_l5_enabled())
> + pr_err("Consider enabling 5-level paging\n");
> }
>
> /* Throw away partial pages: */
> --
> 2.26.2
>
>

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Kirill A. Shutemov