On Tue 13-02-18 14:31:58, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> During boot we poison struct page memory in order to ensure that no one is
> accessing this memory until the struct pages are initialized in
> __init_single_page().
>
> This patch adds more scrutiny to this checking, by making sure that flags
> do not equal to poison pattern when the are accessed. The pattern is all
s@the are@they are@
> ones.
>
> Since, node id is also stored in struct page, and may be accessed quiet
s@quiet@quite@
> early we add the enforcement into page_to_nid() function as well.
It would be worth adding that this applies only to
NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS=n
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Other than that it looks like a reasonable debugging feature.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 4 +++-
> include/linux/page-flags.h | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
> mm/memblock.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index ad06d42adb1a..ad71136a6494 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -896,7 +896,9 @@ extern int page_to_nid(const struct page *page);
> #else
> static inline int page_to_nid(const struct page *page)
> {
> - return (page->flags >> NODES_PGSHIFT) & NODES_MASK;
> + struct page *p = (struct page *)page;
> +
> + return (PF_POISONED_CHECK(p)->flags >> NODES_PGSHIFT) & NODES_MASK;
> }
> #endif
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> index 50c2b8786831..5d5493e1f7ba 100644
> --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
> +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> @@ -156,9 +156,18 @@ static __always_inline int PageCompound(struct page *page)
> return test_bit(PG_head, &page->flags) || PageTail(page);
> }
>
> +#define PAGE_POISON_PATTERN ~0ul
> +static inline int PagePoisoned(const struct page *page)
> +{
> + return page->flags == PAGE_POISON_PATTERN;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Page flags policies wrt compound pages
> *
> + * PF_POISONED_CHECK
> + * check if this struct page poisoned/uninitialized
> + *
> * PF_ANY:
> * the page flag is relevant for small, head and tail pages.
> *
> @@ -176,17 +185,20 @@ static __always_inline int PageCompound(struct page *page)
> * PF_NO_COMPOUND:
> * the page flag is not relevant for compound pages.
> */
> -#define PF_ANY(page, enforce) page
> -#define PF_HEAD(page, enforce) compound_head(page)
> +#define PF_POISONED_CHECK(page) ({ \
> + VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(PagePoisoned(page), page); \
> + page;})
> +#define PF_ANY(page, enforce) PF_POISONED_CHECK(page)
> +#define PF_HEAD(page, enforce) PF_POISONED_CHECK(compound_head(page))
> #define PF_ONLY_HEAD(page, enforce) ({ \
> VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(PageTail(page), page); \
> - page;})
> + PF_POISONED_CHECK(page);})
> #define PF_NO_TAIL(page, enforce) ({ \
> VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(enforce && PageTail(page), page); \
> - compound_head(page);})
> + PF_POISONED_CHECK(compound_head(page));})
> #define PF_NO_COMPOUND(page, enforce) ({ \
> VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(enforce && PageCompound(page), page); \
> - page;})
> + PF_POISONED_CHECK(page);})
>
> /*
> * Macros to create function definitions for page flags
> diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> index 5a9ca2a1751b..d85c8754e0ce 100644
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -1373,7 +1373,7 @@ void * __init memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw(
> min_addr, max_addr, nid);
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
> if (ptr && size > 0)
> - memset(ptr, 0xff, size);
> + memset(ptr, PAGE_POISON_PATTERN, size);
> #endif
> return ptr;
> }
> --
> 2.16.1
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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