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Patch series "mm: ensure consistency of memory map poisoning". Currently memory map allocation for FLATMEM case does not poison the struct pages regardless of CONFIG_PAGE_POISON setting. This happens because allocation of the memory map for FLATMEM and SPARSMEM use different memblock functions and those that are used for SPARSMEM case (namely memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw() and memblock_alloc_exact_nid_raw()) implicitly poison the allocated memory. Another side effect of this implicit poisoning is that early setup code that uses the same functions to allocate memory burns cycles for the memory poisoning even if it was not intended. These patches introduce memmap_alloc() wrapper that ensure that the memory map allocation is consistent for different memory models. This patch (of 4): Currently memory map for the holes is initialized only when SPARSEMEM memory model is used. Yet, even with FLATMEM there could be holes in the physical memory layout that have memory map entries. For instance, the memory reserved using e820 API on i386 or "reserved-memory" nodes in device tree would not appear in memblock.memory and hence the struct pages for such holes will be skipped during memory map initialization. These struct pages will be zeroed because the memory map for FLATMEM systems is allocated with memblock_alloc_node() that clears the allocated memory. While zeroed struct pages do not cause immediate problems, the correct behaviour is to initialize every page using __init_single_page(). Besides, enabling page poison for FLATMEM case will trigger PF_POISONED_CHECK() unless the memory map is properly initialized. Make sure init_unavailable_range() is called for both SPARSEMEM and FLATMEM so that struct pages representing memory holes would appear as PG_Reserved with any memory layout. [rppt@kernel.org: fix microblaze] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YQWW3RCE4eWBuMu/@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714123739.16493-1-rppt@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714123739.16493-2-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
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