From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
To: George Guo <dongtai.guo@linux.dev>
Cc: pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, rppt@kernel.org, pratyush@kernel.org,
graf@amazon.com, jasonmiu@google.com, ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
George Guo <guodongtai@kylinos.cn>,
Kexin Liu <liukexin@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kho: fix KHO_TREE_MAX_DEPTH for non-4KB page sizes
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 14:19:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <agcrLMYHwcEi8_G1@plex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260509024415.33190-1-dongtai.guo@linux.dev>
On 05-09 10:44, George Guo wrote:
> From: George Guo <guodongtai@kylinos.cn>
>
> KHO_TREE_MAX_DEPTH is calculated as:
>
> DIV_ROUND_UP(KHO_ORDER_0_LOG2 - KHO_BITMAP_SIZE_LOG2,
> KHO_TABLE_SIZE_LOG2) + 1
>
> For systems with 16KB pages (e.g. LoongArch), this gives a depth of 4,
> with the top-level shift at bit 39. The order-0 bit sits at bit 50
> (KHO_ORDER_0_LOG2 = 64 - PAGE_SHIFT = 50). When inserting or reading
> a key, the index extracted at the top level is:
>
> (1 << 50) >> 39 = 2048
>
> 2048 is exactly the table size (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(phys_addr_t) = 2048
> for 16KB pages), so it wraps to 0, aliasing the order bit to index 0
> and losing it silently.
>
> On the second kernel, kho_radix_decode_key() sees a key without the
> order bit, calls fls64() on the wrong bit, computes a wrong order and
> thus a garbage physical address. phys_to_page() of that address faults
> in kho_preserved_memory_reserve(), causing a kernel panic early in boot.
>
> Fix by adding +1 to the DIV_ROUND_UP numerator so the formula accounts
> for the order bit itself, giving depth 5 for 16KB pages. The top-level
> shift becomes 50, and (1 << 50) >> 50 = 1, which is nonzero and
> unambiguous. For 4KB and 64KB page sizes the depth is unchanged.
>
> Fixes: 3f2ad90060f6 ("kho: adopt radix tree for preserved memory tracking")
>
> Tested-by: Kexin Liu <liukexin@kylinos.cn>
> Signed-off-by: George Guo <guodongtai@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
The patch fixes 16K support on ARM64.
Pasha
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-15 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-09 2:44 [PATCH 1/1] kho: fix KHO_TREE_MAX_DEPTH for non-4KB page sizes George Guo
2026-05-10 15:26 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-05-11 10:40 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-05-13 7:50 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-05-13 15:07 ` George Guo
2026-05-15 14:19 ` Pasha Tatashin [this message]
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