In move_freepages() a BUG_ON() can be triggered on uninitialized page structures
due to pageblock alignment. Aligning the skipped pfns in memmap_init_zone() the
same way as in move_freepages_block() simply fixes those crashes.
Fixes: b92df1de5d28 ("[mm] page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns where possible")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vacek <neelx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index cb416723538f..9edee36e6a74 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5359,9 +5359,14 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
/*
* Skip to the pfn preceding the next valid one (or
* end_pfn), such that we hit a valid pfn (or end_pfn)
- * on our next iteration of the loop.
+ * on our next iteration of the loop. Note that it needs
+ * to be pageblock aligned even when the region itself
+ * is not as move_freepages_block() can shift ahead of
+ * the valid region but still depends on correct page
+ * metadata.
*/
- pfn = memblock_next_valid_pfn(pfn, end_pfn) - 1;
+ pfn = (memblock_next_valid_pfn(pfn, end_pfn) &
+ ~(pageblock_nr_pages-1)) - 1;
#endif
continue;
}
--
2.16.2
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