[PATCH v1 1/3] mm/shuffle: don't move pages between zones and don't read garbage memmaps

David Hildenbrand
2020-06-16T11:52:31Z

Especially with memory hotplug, we can have offline sections (with a
garbage memmap) and overlapping zones. We have to make sure to only
touch initialized memmaps (online sections managed by the buddy) and that
the zone matches, to not move pages between zones.

To test if this can actually happen, I added a simple
BUG_ON(page_zone(page_i) != page_zone(page_j));
right before the swap. When hotplugging a 256M DIMM to a 4G x86-64 VM and
onlining the first memory block "online_movable" and the second memory
block "online_kernel", it will trigger the BUG, as both zones (NORMAL
and MOVABLE) overlap.

This might result in all kinds of weird situations (e.g., double
allocations, list corruptions, unmovable allocations ending up in the
movable zone).

Fixes: e900a918b098 ("mm: shuffle initial free memory to improve memory-side-cache utilization")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
mm/shuffle.c | 18 +++++++++---------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shuffle.c b/mm/shuffle.c
index 44406d9977c77..dd13ab851b3ee 100644
--- a/mm/shuffle.c
+++ b/mm/shuffle.c
@@ -58,25 +58,25 @@ module_param_call(shuffle, shuffle_store, shuffle_show, &shuffle_param, 0400);
* For two pages to be swapped in the shuffle, they must be free (on a
* 'free_area' lru), have the same order, and have the same migratetype.
*/
-static struct page * __meminit shuffle_valid_page(unsigned long pfn, int order)
+static struct page * __meminit shuffle_valid_page(struct zone *zone,
+ unsigned long pfn, int order)
{
- struct page *page;
+ struct page *page = pfn_to_online_page(pfn);

/*
* Given we're dealing with randomly selected pfns in a zone we
* need to ask questions like...
*/

- /* ...is the pfn even in the memmap? */
- if (!pfn_valid_within(pfn))
+ /* ... is the page managed by the buddy? */
+ if (!page)
return NULL;

- /* ...is the pfn in a present section or a hole? */
- if (!pfn_in_present_section(pfn))
+ /* ... is the page assigned to the same zone? */
+ if (page_zone(page) != zone)
return NULL;

/* ...is the page free and currently on a free_area list? */
- page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
if (!PageBuddy(page))
return NULL;

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ void __meminit __shuffle_zone(struct zone *z)
* page_j randomly selected in the span @zone_start_pfn to
* @spanned_pages.
*/
- page_i = shuffle_valid_page(i, order);
+ page_i = shuffle_valid_page(z, i, order);
if (!page_i)
continue;

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ void __meminit __shuffle_zone(struct zone *z)
j = z->zone_start_pfn +
ALIGN_DOWN(get_random_long() % z->spanned_pages,
order_pages);
- page_j = shuffle_valid_page(j, order);
+ page_j = shuffle_valid_page(z, j, order);
if (page_j && page_j != page_i)
break;
}
--
2.26.2