Recently a customer of ours experienced a crash when booting the
system while enabling memory-hotplug.
The problem is that Normal zones on different nodes don't get their private
zone->pageset allocated, and keep sharing the initial boot_pageset.
The sharing between zones is normally safe as explained by the comment for
boot_pageset - it's a percpu structure, and manipulations are done with
disabled interrupts, and boot_pageset is set up in a way that any page placed
on its pcplist is immediately flushed to shared zone's freelist, because
pcp->high == 1.
However, the hotplug operation updates pcp->high to a higher value as it
expects to be operating on a private pageset.
The problem is in build_all_zonelists(), which is called when the first range
of pages is onlined for the Normal zone of node X or Y:
if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING) {
build_all_zonelists_init();
} else {
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
if (zone)
setup_zone_pageset(zone);
#endif
/* we have to stop all cpus to guarantee there is no user
of zonelist */
stop_machine(__build_all_zonelists, pgdat, NULL);
/* cpuset refresh routine should be here */
}
When called during hotplug, it should execute the setup_zone_pageset(zone)
which allocates the private pageset.
However, with memhp_default_state=online, this happens early while
system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING is still true, hence this step is skipped.
(and build_all_zonelists_init() is probably unsafe anyway at this point).
Another hotplug operation on the same zone then leads to zone_pcp_update(zone)
called from online_pages(), which updates the pcp->high for the shared
boot_pageset to a value higher than 1.
At that point, pages freed from Node X and Y Normal zones can end up on the same
pcplist and from there they can be freed to the wrong zone's freelist,
leading to the corruption and crashes.
Please, note that upstream has fixed that differently (and unintentionally) by
adding another boot state (SYSTEM_SCHEDULING), which is set before smp_init().
That should happen before memory hotplug events even with memhp_default_state=online.
Backporting that would be too intrusive.
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Debugged-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 ++-
init/main.c | 2 +-
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 10 +++++-----
mm/page_alloc.c | 7 ++++---
4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index e3d7754f25f0..5c7645e156a5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -756,7 +756,8 @@ static inline bool is_dev_zone(const struct zone *zone)
#include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
extern struct mutex zonelists_mutex;
-void build_all_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct zone *zone);
+void build_all_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct zone *zone,
+ bool hotplug_context);
void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx);
bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, unsigned int order, unsigned long mark,
int classzone_idx, unsigned int alloc_flags,
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index d47860dbe896..7ad08957dd18 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void)
smp_prepare_boot_cpu(); /* arch-specific boot-cpu hooks */
boot_cpu_hotplug_init();
- build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL);
+ build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL, false);
page_alloc_init();
pr_notice("Kernel command line: %s\n", boot_command_line);
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 449999657c0b..a4ffe5996317 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, int online_typ
mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex);
if (!populated_zone(zone)) {
need_zonelists_rebuild = 1;
- build_all_zonelists(NULL, zone);
+ build_all_zonelists(NULL, zone, true);
}
ret = walk_system_ram_range(pfn, nr_pages, &onlined_pages,
@@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, int online_typ
if (onlined_pages) {
node_states_set_node(nid, &arg);
if (need_zonelists_rebuild)
- build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL);
+ build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL, true);
else
zone_pcp_update(zone);
}
@@ -1220,7 +1220,7 @@ static pg_data_t __ref *hotadd_new_pgdat(int nid, u64 start)
* to access not-initialized zonelist, build here.
*/
mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex);
- build_all_zonelists(pgdat, NULL);
+ build_all_zonelists(pgdat, NULL, true);
mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
/*
@@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ int try_online_node(int nid)
if (pgdat->node_zonelists->_zonerefs->zone == NULL) {
mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex);
- build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL);
+ build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL, true);
mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
}
@@ -2016,7 +2016,7 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
if (!populated_zone(zone)) {
zone_pcp_reset(zone);
mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex);
- build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL);
+ build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL, true);
mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
} else
zone_pcp_update(zone);
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index de00e0fec484..f394dd87fa03 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4608,7 +4608,7 @@ int numa_zonelist_order_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
user_zonelist_order = oldval;
} else if (oldval != user_zonelist_order) {
mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex);
- build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL);
+ build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL, false);
mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
}
}
@@ -4988,11 +4988,12 @@ build_all_zonelists_init(void)
* (2) call of __init annotated helper build_all_zonelists_init
* [protected by SYSTEM_BOOTING].
*/
-void __ref build_all_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct zone *zone)
+void __ref build_all_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct zone *zone,
+ bool hotplug_context)
{
set_zonelist_order();
- if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING) {
+ if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING && !hotplug_context) {
build_all_zonelists_init();
} else {
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
--
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