e577c8b64d
When we have holes in a normal memory zone, we could endup having
cached_migrate_pfns which may not necessarily be valid, under heavy memory
pressure with swapping enabled ( via __reset_isolation_suitable(),
triggered by kswapd).
Later if we fail to find a page via fast_isolate_freepages(), we may end
up using the migrate_pfn we started the search with, as valid page. This
could lead to accessing NULL pointer derefernces like below, due to an
invalid mem_section pointer.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 [47/1825]
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x96000004
Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
CM = 0, WnR = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = 0000000082f94ae9
[0000000000000008] pgd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
...
CPU: 10 PID: 6080 Comm: qemu-system-aar Not tainted 510-rc1+ #6
Hardware name: AmpereComputing(R) OSPREY EV-883832-X3-0001/OSPREY, BIOS 4819 09/25/2018
pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO)
pc : set_pfnblock_flags_mask+0x58/0xe8
lr : compaction_alloc+0x300/0x950
[...]
Process qemu-system-aar (pid: 6080, stack limit = 0x0000000095070da5)
Call trace:
set_pfnblock_flags_mask+0x58/0xe8
compaction_alloc+0x300/0x950
migrate_pages+0x1a4/0xbb0
compact_zone+0x750/0xde8
compact_zone_order+0xd8/0x118
try_to_compact_pages+0xb4/0x290
__alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x84/0x1e0
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5e0/0xe18
alloc_pages_vma+0x1cc/0x210
do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x108/0x7c8
__handle_mm_fault+0xdd4/0x1190
handle_mm_fault+0x114/0x1c0
__get_user_pages+0x198/0x3c0
get_user_pages_unlocked+0xb4/0x1d8
__gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0x12c/0x3b8
gfn_to_pfn_prot+0x4c/0x60
kvm_handle_guest_abort+0x4b0/0xcd8
handle_exit+0x140/0x1b8
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x260/0x768
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x490/0x898
do_vfs_ioctl+0xc4/0x898
ksys_ioctl+0x8c/0xa0
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0x28/0x38
el0_svc_common+0x74/0x118
el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78
el0_svc+0x8/0xc
Code: f8607840 f100001f 8b011401 9a801020 (f9400400)
---[ end trace af6a35219325a9b6 ]---
The issue was reported on an arm64 server with 128GB with holes in the
zone (e.g, [32GB@4GB, 96GB@544GB]), with a swap device enabled, while
running 100 KVM guest instances.
This patch fixes the issue by ensuring that the page belongs to a valid
PFN when we fallback to using the lower limit of the scan range upon
failure in fast_isolate_freepages().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1558711908-15688-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
Fixes:
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.