Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/memunmap: Use the correct start and end pfn when removing pages from zone

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On 27.09.19 03:51, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On 9/27/19 4:15 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:55:51 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> With altmap, all the resource pfns are not initialized. While initializing
>>> pfn, altmap reserve space is skipped. Hence when removing pfn from zone skip
>>> pfns that were never initialized.
>>>
>>> Update memunmap_pages to calculate start and end pfn based on altmap
>>> values. This fixes a kernel crash that is observed when destroying namespace.
>>>
>>> [   74.745056] BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access at 0xc00c000001400000
>>> [   74.745256] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000000b58b0
>>> cpu 0x2: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000026ea93580]
>>>      pc: c0000000000b58b0: memset+0x68/0x104
>>>      lr: c0000000003eb008: page_init_poison+0x38/0x50
>>>      ...
>>>    current = 0xc000000271c67d80
>>>    paca    = 0xc00000003fffd680   irqmask: 0x03   irq_happened: 0x01
>>>      pid   = 3665, comm = ndctl
>>> [link register   ] c0000000003eb008 page_init_poison+0x38/0x50
>>> [c00000026ea93830] c0000000004754d4 remove_pfn_range_from_zone+0x64/0x3e0
>>> [c00000026ea938a0] c0000000004b8a60 memunmap_pages+0x300/0x400
>>> [c00000026ea93930] c0000000009e32a0 devm_action_release+0x30/0x50
>>
>> Doesn't apply to mainline or -next.  Which tree is this against?
>>
> 
> After applying the patches from David on mainline. That is the reason I 
> replied to this thread. I should have mentioned in the email that it is 
> based on patch series "[PATCH v4 0/8] mm/memory_hotplug: Shrink zones 
> before removing memory"

So if I am not wrong, my patch "[PATCH v4 4/8] mm/memory_hotplug: Poison
memmap in remove_pfn_range_from_zone()" makes it show up that we
actually call _remove_pages() with wrong parameters, right?

If so, I guess it would be better for you to fix it before my series and
I will rebase my series on top of that.

-- 

Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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