[PATCH v3] powerpc/memhotplug: Add add_pages override for PPC

Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com
Wed Jun 29 17:29:58 AEST 2022


On 2022/6/29 15:14, Aneesh Kumar K V wrote:
> On 6/29/22 12:00 PM, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2022/6/29 13:09, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>>> With commit ffa0b64e3be5 ("powerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit Book3E & 32-bit")
>>> the kernel now validate the addr against high_memory value. This results
>>> in the below BUG_ON with dax pfns.
>>>
>>> [  635.798741][T26531] kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:5521!
>>> 1:mon> e
>>> cpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000007287630]
>>>       pc: c00000000055ed48: free_pages.part.0+0x48/0x110
>>>       lr: c00000000053ca70: tlb_finish_mmu+0x80/0xd0
>>>       sp: c0000000072878d0
>>>      msr: 800000000282b033
>>>     current = 0xc00000000afabe00
>>>     paca    = 0xc00000037ffff300   irqmask: 0x03   irq_happened: 0x05
>>>       pid   = 26531, comm = 50-landscape-sy
>>> kernel BUG at :5521!
>>> Linux version 5.19.0-rc3-14659-g4ec05be7c2e1 (kvaneesh at ltc-boston8) (gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #625 SMP Thu Jun 23 00:35:43 CDT 2022
>>> 1:mon> t
>>> [link register   ] c00000000053ca70 tlb_finish_mmu+0x80/0xd0
>>> [c0000000072878d0] c00000000053ca54 tlb_finish_mmu+0x64/0xd0 (unreliable)
>>> [c000000007287900] c000000000539424 exit_mmap+0xe4/0x2a0
>>> [c0000000072879e0] c00000000019fc1c mmput+0xcc/0x210
>>> [c000000007287a20] c000000000629230 begin_new_exec+0x5e0/0xf40
>>> [c000000007287ae0] c00000000070b3cc load_elf_binary+0x3ac/0x1e00
>>> [c000000007287c10] c000000000627af0 bprm_execve+0x3b0/0xaf0
>>> [c000000007287cd0] c000000000628414 do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x1e4/0x310
>>> [c000000007287d80] c00000000062858c sys_execve+0x4c/0x60
>>> [c000000007287db0] c00000000002c1b0 system_call_exception+0x160/0x2c0
>>> [c000000007287e10] c00000000000c53c system_call_common+0xec/0x250
>>>
>>> The fix is to make sure we update high_memory on memory hotplug.
>>> This is similar to what x86 does in commit 3072e413e305 ("mm/memory_hotplug: introduce add_pages")
>>>
>>> Fixes: ffa0b64e3be5 ("powerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit Book3E & 32-bit")
>>> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>
>>> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
>>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>> Changes from v2:
>>> * drop WARN_ON_ONCE
>>> * check for error from __add_pages
>>>
>>>    arch/powerpc/Kconfig  |  4 ++++
>>>    arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>    2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>>> index c2ce2e60c8f0..7aa12e88c580 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>>> @@ -358,6 +358,10 @@ config ARCH_SUSPEND_NONZERO_CPU
>>>        def_bool y
>>>        depends on PPC_POWERNV || PPC_PSERIES
>>>    +config ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES
>>> +    def_bool y
>>> +    depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>>> +
>>>    config PPC_DCR_NATIVE
>>>        bool
>>>    diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>>> index 52b77684acda..a97128a48817 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>>> @@ -105,6 +105,37 @@ void __ref arch_remove_linear_mapping(u64 start, u64 size)
>>>        vm_unmap_aliases();
>>>    }
>>>    +/*
>>> + * After memory hotplug the variables max_pfn, max_low_pfn and high_memory need
>>> + * updating.
>>> + */
>>> +static void update_end_of_memory_vars(u64 start, u64 size)
>>> +{
>>> +    unsigned long end_pfn = PFN_UP(start + size);
>>> +
>>> +    if (end_pfn > max_pfn) {
>>> +        max_pfn = end_pfn;
>>> +        max_low_pfn = end_pfn;
>>> +        high_memory = (void *)__va(max_pfn * PAGE_SIZE - 1) + 1;
>>> +    }
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +int __ref add_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
>>> +            struct mhp_params *params)
>>> +{
>>> +    int ret;
>>                  int ret = -EINVAL;
>>> +
>>> +    ret = __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
>>> +    if (ret)
>>> +        return ret;
>>> +
> considering we are updating ret immediately why should we initialize that to EINVAL?
>
> 	int ret = -EINVAL;
> 	ret = __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
> 	
Ignore it, I don't know what I was thinking...
>
>
>>> +    /* update max_pfn, max_low_pfn and high_memory */
>>> +    update_end_of_memory_vars(start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
>>> +                  nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT);
>>> +
>>> +    return ret;
>>> +}
>>> +
>> and could we only call update_end_of_memory_vars() in arch_add_memory()?
>>>    int __ref arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
>>>                  struct mhp_params *params)
>>>    {
>>> @@ -115,7 +146,7 @@ int __ref arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
>>>        rc = arch_create_linear_mapping(nid, start, size, params);
>>>        if (rc)
>>>            return rc;
>>> -    rc = __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
>>> +    rc = add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
>>>        if (rc)
>>>            arch_remove_linear_mapping(start, size);
>> if (!rc)
>>
>>      update_end_of_memory_vars(start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT);
>>
>> else
>>
>>      arch_remove_linear_mapping(start, size);
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> commit 3072e413e305 goes into the details of why it is done in add_pages
>
> mm/memory_hotplug: introduce add_pages
>
> There are new users of memory hotplug emerging.  Some of them require
> different subset of arch_add_memory.  There are some which only require
> allocation of struct pages without mapping those pages to the kernel
> address space.  We currently have __add_pages for that purpose.  But this
> is rather lowlevel and not very suitable for the code outside of the
> memory hotplug.  E.g.  x86_64 wants to update max_pfn which should be done
> by the caller.  Introduce add_pages() which should care about those
> details if they are needed.  Each architecture should define its
> implementation and select CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES.  All others use the
> currently existing __add_pages.
>
> We could debate whether max_pfn/high_memory should encompass device private memory too.
> But the current code on x86 does that and I would also expect virt_addr_valid to return
> true for the address mapping private device memory.
>
OK, I see for private device memory will call add_pages(), which should 
update
the max_pfn/high_memory, not only for arch_add_memory(). Maybe some 
other archs
have the same problem.
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>


>
>>>        return rc;
> .


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