kernel/git/stable/linux.git/mm/page_alloc.c, branch linux-5.17.y

mm/page_alloc: always attempt to allocate at least one page during bulk allocation

2022-06-09T08:26:27+00:00

commit c572e4888ad1be123c1516ec577ad30a700bbec4 upstream. Peter Pavlisko reported the following problem on kernel bugzilla 216007. When I try to extract an uncompressed tar archive (2.6 milion files, 760.3 GiB in size) on newly created (empty) XFS file system, after first low tens of gigabytes extracted the process hangs in iowait indefinitely. One CPU core is 100% occupied with iowait, the other CPU core is idle (on 2-core Intel Celeron G1610T). It was bisected to c9fa563072e1 ("xfs: use alloc_pages_bulk_array() for buffers") but XFS is only the messenger. The problem is that nothing is waking kswapd to reclaim some pages at a time the PCP lists cannot be refilled until some reclaim happens. The bulk allocator checks that there are some pages in the array and the original intent was that a bulk allocator did not necessarily need all the requested pages and it was best to return as quickly as possible. This was fine for the first user of the API but both NFS and XFS require the requested number of pages be available before making progress. Both could be adjusted to call the page allocator directly if a bulk allocation fails but it puts a burden on users of the API. Adjust the semantics to attempt at least one allocation via __alloc_pages() before returning so kswapd is woken if necessary. It was reported via bugzilla that the patch addressed the problem and that the tar extraction completed successfully. This may also address bug 215975 but has yet to be confirmed. BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216007 BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215975 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220526091210.GC3441@techsingularity.net Fixes: 387ba26fb1cb ("mm/page_alloc: add a bulk page allocator") Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Cc: Chuck Lever Cc: [5.13+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, page_alloc: fix build_zonerefs_node()

2022-04-20T07:36:23+00:00

commit e553f62f10d93551eb883eca227ac54d1a4fad84 upstream. Since commit 6aa303defb74 ("mm, vmscan: only allocate and reclaim from zones with pages managed by the buddy allocator") only zones with free memory are included in a built zonelist. This is problematic when e.g. all memory of a zone has been ballooned out when zonelists are being rebuilt. The decision whether to rebuild the zonelists when onlining new memory is done based on populated_zone() returning 0 for the zone the memory will be added to. The new zone is added to the zonelists only, if it has free memory pages (managed_zone() returns a non-zero value) after the memory has been onlined. This implies, that onlining memory will always free the added pages to the allocator immediately, but this is not true in all cases: when e.g. running as a Xen guest the onlined new memory will be added only to the ballooned memory list, it will be freed only when the guest is being ballooned up afterwards. Another problem with using managed_zone() for the decision whether a zone is being added to the zonelists is, that a zone with all memory used will in fact be removed from all zonelists in case the zonelists happen to be rebuilt. Use populated_zone() when building a zonelist as it has been done before that commit. There was a report that QubesOS (based on Xen) is hitting this problem. Xen has switched to use the zone device functionality in kernel 5.9 and QubesOS wants to use memory hotplugging for guests in order to be able to start a guest with minimal memory and expand it as needed. This was the report leading to the patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220407120637.9035-1-jgross@suse.com Fixes: 6aa303defb74 ("mm, vmscan: only allocate and reclaim from zones with pages managed by the buddy allocator") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/pages_alloc.c: don't create ZONE_MOVABLE beyond the end of a node

2022-04-08T11:57:19+00:00

commit ddbc84f3f595cf1fc8234a191193b5d20ad43938 upstream. ZONE_MOVABLE uses the remaining memory in each node. Its starting pfn is also aligned to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES. It is possible for the remaining memory in a node to be less than MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES, meaning there is not enough room for ZONE_MOVABLE on that node. Unfortunately this condition is not checked for. This leads to zone_movable_pfn[] getting set to a pfn greater than the last pfn in a node. calculate_node_totalpages() then sets zone->present_pages to be greater than zone->spanned_pages which is invalid, as spanned_pages represents the maximum number of pages in a zone assuming no holes. Subsequently it is possible free_area_init_core() will observe a zone of size zero with present pages. In this case it will skip setting up the zone, including the initialisation of free_lists[]. However populated_zone() checks zone->present_pages to see if a zone has memory available. This is used by iterators such as walk_zones_in_node(). pagetypeinfo_showfree() uses this to walk the free_list of each zone in each node, which are assumed to be initialised due to the zone not being empty. As free_area_init_core() never initialised the free_lists[] this results in the following kernel crash when trying to read /proc/pagetypeinfo: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NOPTI CPU: 0 PID: 456 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.16.0 #461 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:pagetypeinfo_show+0x163/0x460 Code: 9e 82 e8 80 57 0e 00 49 8b 06 b9 01 00 00 00 4c 39 f0 75 16 e9 65 02 00 00 48 83 c1 01 48 81 f9 a0 86 01 00 0f 84 48 02 00 00 <48> 8b 00 4c 39 f0 75 e7 48 c7 c2 80 a2 e2 82 48 c7 c6 79 ef e3 82 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001c4bd10 EFLAGS: 00010003 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88801105f638 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000000000000068b RDI: ffff8880163dc68b RBP: ffffc90001c4bd90 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8880163dc67e R10: 656c6261766f6d6e R11: 6c6261766f6d6e55 R12: ffff88807ffb4a00 R13: ffff88807ffb49f8 R14: ffff88807ffb4580 R15: ffff88807ffb3000 FS: 00007f9c83eff5c0(0000) GS:ffff88807dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000013c8e000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0 Call Trace: seq_read_iter+0x128/0x460 proc_reg_read_iter+0x51/0x80 new_sync_read+0x113/0x1a0 vfs_read+0x136/0x1d0 ksys_read+0x70/0xf0 __x64_sys_read+0x1a/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Fix this by checking that the aligned zone_movable_pfn[] does not exceed the end of the node, and if it does skip creating a movable zone on this node. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220215025831.2113067-1-apopple@nvidia.com Fixes: 2a1e274acf0b ("Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone") Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2022-01-20T08:41:01+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "55 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: percpu, procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, get_maintainer, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, nilfs2, hfs, fat, adfs, panic, delayacct, kconfig, kcov, and ubsan" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (55 commits) lib: remove redundant assignment to variable ret ubsan: remove CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE kcov: fix generic Kconfig dependencies if ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR lib/Kconfig.debug: make TEST_KMOD depend on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB btrfs: use generic Kconfig option for 256kB page size limit arch/Kconfig: split PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB from PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB configs: introduce debug.config for CI-like setup delayacct: track delays from memory compact Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst: add thrashing page cache and direct compact delayacct: cleanup flags in struct task_delay_info and functions use it delayacct: fix incomplete disable operation when switch enable to disable delayacct: support swapin delay accounting for swapping without blkio panic: remove oops_id panic: use error_report_end tracepoint on warnings fs/adfs: remove unneeded variable make code cleaner FAT: use io_schedule_timeout() instead of congestion_wait() hfsplus: use struct_group_attr() for memcpy() region nilfs2: remove redundant pointer sbufs fs/binfmt_elf: use PT_LOAD p_align values for static PIE const_structs.checkpatch: add frequently used ops structs ...

delayacct: track delays from memory compact

2022-01-20T06:52:55+00:00

Delay accounting does not track the delay of memory compact. When there is not enough free memory, tasks can spend a amount of their time waiting for compact. To get the impact of tasks in direct memory compact, measure the delay when allocating memory through memory compact. Also update tools/accounting/getdelays.c: / # ./getdelays_next -di -p 304 print delayacct stats ON printing IO accounting PID 304 CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average 277 780000000 849039485 18877296 0.068ms IO count delay total delay average 0 0 0ms SWAP count delay total delay average 0 0 0ms RECLAIM count delay total delay average 5 11088812685 2217ms THRASHING count delay total delay average 0 0 0ms COMPACT count delay total delay average 3 72758 0ms watch: read=0, write=0, cancelled_write=0 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1638619795-71451-1-git-send-email-wang.yong12@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: wangyong Reviewed-by: Jiang Xuexin Reviewed-by: Zhang Wenya Reviewed-by: Yang Yang Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/hwpoison: fix unpoison_memory()

2022-01-15T14:30:31+00:00

After recent soft-offline rework, error pages can be taken off from buddy allocator, but the existing unpoison_memory() does not properly undo the operation. Moreover, due to the recent change on __get_hwpoison_page(), get_page_unless_zero() is hardly called for hwpoisoned pages. So __get_hwpoison_page() highly likely returns -EBUSY (meaning to fail to grab page refcount) and unpoison just clears PG_hwpoison without releasing a refcount. That does not lead to a critical issue like kernel panic, but unpoisoned pages never get back to buddy (leaked permanently), which is not good. To (partially) fix this, we need to identify "taken off" pages from other types of hwpoisoned pages. We can't use refcount or page flags for this purpose, so a pseudo flag is defined by hacking ->private field. Someone might think that put_page() is enough to cancel taken-off pages, but the normal free path contains some operations not suitable for the current purpose, and can fire VM_BUG_ON(). Note that unpoison_memory() is now supposed to be cancel hwpoison events injected only by madvise() or /sys/devices/system/memory/{hard,soft}_offline_page, not by MCE injection, so please don't try to use unpoison when testing with MCE injection. [lkp@intel.com: report build failure for ARCH=i386] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211115084006.3728254-4-naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi Reviewed-by: Yang Shi Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Ding Hui Cc: Tony Luck Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Peter Xu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc.c: do not warn allocation failure on zone DMA if no managed pages

2022-01-15T14:30:29+00:00

In kdump kernel of x86_64, page allocation failure is observed: kworker/u2:2: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xcc1(GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0 CPU: 0 PID: 55 Comm: kworker/u2:2 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc4+ #5 Hardware name: AMD Dinar/Dinar, BIOS RDN1505B 06/05/2013 Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x5e warn_alloc.cold+0x72/0xd6 __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0xc69/0xcd0 __alloc_pages+0x1df/0x210 new_slab+0x389/0x4d0 ___slab_alloc+0x58f/0x770 __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x4a/0x80 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x24b/0x2c0 sr_probe+0x1db/0x620 ...... device_add+0x405/0x920 ...... __scsi_add_device+0xe5/0x100 ata_scsi_scan_host+0x97/0x1d0 async_run_entry_fn+0x30/0x130 process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3c0 worker_thread+0x50/0x3b0 ? rescuer_thread+0x350/0x350 kthread+0x16b/0x190 ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 Mem-Info: ...... The above failure happened when calling kmalloc() to allocate buffer with GFP_DMA. It requests to allocate slab page from DMA zone while no managed pages at all in there. sr_probe() --> get_capabilities() --> buffer = kmalloc(512, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA); Because in the current kernel, dma-kmalloc will be created as long as CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is enabled. However, kdump kernel of x86_64 doesn't have managed pages on DMA zone since commit 6f599d84231f ("x86/kdump: Always reserve the low 1M when the crashkernel option is specified"). The failure can be always reproduced. For now, let's mute the warning of allocation failure if requesting pages from DMA zone while no managed pages. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211223094435.248523-4-bhe@redhat.com Fixes: 6f599d84231f ("x86/kdump: Always reserve the low 1M when the crashkernel option is specified") Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Acked-by: John Donnelly Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Laight Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Robin Murphy Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm_zone: add function to check if managed dma zone exists

2022-01-15T14:30:29+00:00

Patch series "Handle warning of allocation failure on DMA zone w/o managed pages", v4. **Problem observed: On x86_64, when crash is triggered and entering into kdump kernel, page allocation failure can always be seen. --------------------------------- DMA: preallocated 128 KiB GFP_KERNEL pool for atomic allocations swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:5, mode:0xcc1(GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x7f/0xa1 warn_alloc.cold+0x72/0xd6 ...... __alloc_pages+0x24d/0x2c0 ...... dma_atomic_pool_init+0xdb/0x176 do_one_initcall+0x67/0x320 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x3f/0x80 kernel_init_freeable+0x290/0x2dc ? rest_init+0x24f/0x24f kernel_init+0xa/0x111 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 Mem-Info: ------------------------------------ ***Root cause: In the current kernel, it assumes that DMA zone must have managed pages and try to request pages if CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is enabled. While this is not always true. E.g in kdump kernel of x86_64, only low 1M is presented and locked down at very early stage of boot, so that this low 1M won't be added into buddy allocator to become managed pages of DMA zone. This exception will always cause page allocation failure if page is requested from DMA zone. ***Investigation: This failure happens since below commit merged into linus's tree. 1a6a9044b967 x86/setup: Remove CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW and reservelow= options 23721c8e92f7 x86/crash: Remove crash_reserve_low_1M() f1d4d47c5851 x86/setup: Always reserve the first 1M of RAM 7c321eb2b843 x86/kdump: Remove the backup region handling 6f599d84231f x86/kdump: Always reserve the low 1M when the crashkernel option is specified Before them, on x86_64, the low 640K area will be reused by kdump kernel. So in kdump kernel, the content of low 640K area is copied into a backup region for dumping before jumping into kdump. Then except of those firmware reserved region in [0, 640K], the left area will be added into buddy allocator to become available managed pages of DMA zone. However, after above commits applied, in kdump kernel of x86_64, the low 1M is reserved by memblock, but not released to buddy allocator. So any later page allocation requested from DMA zone will fail. At the beginning, if crashkernel is reserved, the low 1M need be locked down because AMD SME encrypts memory making the old backup region mechanims impossible when switching into kdump kernel. Later, it was also observed that there are BIOSes corrupting memory under 1M. To solve this, in commit f1d4d47c5851, the entire region of low 1M is always reserved after the real mode trampoline is allocated. Besides, recently, Intel engineer mentioned their TDX (Trusted domain extensions) which is under development in kernel also needs to lock down the low 1M. So we can't simply revert above commits to fix the page allocation failure from DMA zone as someone suggested. ***Solution: Currently, only DMA atomic pool and dma-kmalloc will initialize and request page allocation with GFP_DMA during bootup. So only initializ DMA atomic pool when DMA zone has available managed pages, otherwise just skip the initialization. For dma-kmalloc(), for the time being, let's mute the warning of allocation failure if requesting pages from DMA zone while no manged pages. Meanwhile, change code to use dma_alloc_xx/dma_map_xx API to replace kmalloc(GFP_DMA), or do not use GFP_DMA when calling kmalloc() if not necessary. Christoph is posting patches to fix those under drivers/scsi/. Finally, we can remove the need of dma-kmalloc() as people suggested. This patch (of 3): In some places of the current kernel, it assumes that dma zone must have managed pages if CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is enabled. While this is not always true. E.g in kdump kernel of x86_64, only low 1M is presented and locked down at very early stage of boot, so that there's no managed pages at all in DMA zone. This exception will always cause page allocation failure if page is requested from DMA zone. Here add function has_managed_dma() and the relevant helper functions to check if there's DMA zone with managed pages. It will be used in later patches. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211223094435.248523-1-bhe@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211223094435.248523-2-bhe@redhat.com Fixes: 6f599d84231f ("x86/kdump: Always reserve the low 1M when the crashkernel option is specified") Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: John Donnelly Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Laight Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Robin Murphy Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc.c: modify the comment section for alloc_contig_pages()

2022-01-15T14:30:29+00:00

Clarify that the alloc_contig_pages() allocated range will always be aligned to the requested nr_pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1639545478-12160-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Cc: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: page_alloc: fix building error on -Werror=array-compare

2022-01-15T14:30:29+00:00

Arthur Marsh reported we would hit the error below when building kernel with gcc-12: CC mm/page_alloc.o mm/page_alloc.c: In function `mem_init_print_info': mm/page_alloc.c:8173:27: error: comparison between two arrays [-Werror=array-compare] 8173 | if (start <= pos && pos < end && size > adj) \ | In C++20, the comparision between arrays should be warned. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211125130928.32465-1-sxwjean@me.com Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song Reported-by: Arthur Marsh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds