On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 01:33:20PM +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-05-11 at 13:24 +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 05:31:14PM +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> > > In current implementation of node_data, if CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=y,
> > > node_data is allocated by kzmalloc. If CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=n,
> > > we use a global variable named "contig_page_data".
> > >
> > > If CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is not enabled. __pa() can handle both kzalloc and
> > > symbol cases. But if CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is set, we will have the
> > > "virt_to_phys used for non-linear address" warning when booting.
> >
> > Maybe we'll just allocate pgdat for CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=n (which is
> > essentially !NUMA) case in, say, free_area_init()?
>
>
> thanks for your comment.
>
> I check the source tree and found that contig_page_data is used by
> crash_core.c as a symbol. I am not familiar with crash_core but I guess
> allocate pgdat may break this crash_core users.
>
> For example: some userspace scripts want to read the address of
> contig_page_data symbol from a corefile.
>
> kernel/crash_core.c:460: VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(contig_page_data);
>
> #ifndef CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
> VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(mem_map);
> VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(contig_page_data);
> #endif
My understanding is that VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL() should correspond to actual
symbol. If there is no contig_page_data symbol, there is no need for
VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL() either.
> Perhaps we should use current simple approach?
>
>
> >
> > > To fix it, create a small function to handle both translation.
> > >
> > > Warning message:
> > > [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > [ 0.000000] virt_to_phys used for non-linear address: (____ptrval____) (contig_page_data+0x0/0x1c00)
> > > [ 0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:15 __virt_to_phys+0x58/0x68
> > > [ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
> > > [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W 5.13.0-rc1-00074-g1140ab592e2e #3
> > > [ 0.000000] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> > > [ 0.000000] pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
> > > [ 0.000000] pc : __virt_to_phys+0x58/0x68
> > > [ 0.000000] lr : __virt_to_phys+0x54/0x68
> > > [ 0.000000] sp : ffff800011833e70
> > > [ 0.000000] x29: ffff800011833e70 x28: 00000000418a0018 x27: 0000000000000000
> > > [ 0.000000] x26: 000000000000000a x25: ffff800011b70000 x24: ffff800011b70000
> > > [ 0.000000] x23: fffffc0001c00000 x22: ffff800011b70000 x21: 0000000047ffffb0
> > > [ 0.000000] x20: 0000000000000008 x19: ffff800011b082c0 x18: ffffffffffffffff
> > > [ 0.000000] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff800011833bf9 x15: 0000000000000004
> > > [ 0.000000] x14: 0000000000000fff x13: ffff80001186a548 x12: 0000000000000000
> > > [ 0.000000] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 00000000ffffffff x9 : 0000000000000000
> > > [ 0.000000] x8 : ffff8000115c9000 x7 : 737520737968705f x6 : ffff800011b62ef8
> > > [ 0.000000] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 0000000000000000
> > > [ 0.000000] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff80001159585e x0 : 0000000000000058
> > > [ 0.000000] Call trace:
> > > [ 0.000000] __virt_to_phys+0x58/0x68
> > > [ 0.000000] check_usemap_section_nr+0x50/0xfc
> > > [ 0.000000] sparse_init_nid+0x1ac/0x28c
> > > [ 0.000000] sparse_init+0x1c4/0x1e0
> > > [ 0.000000] bootmem_init+0x60/0x90
> > > [ 0.000000] setup_arch+0x184/0x1f0
> > > [ 0.000000] start_kernel+0x78/0x488
> > > [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace f68728a0d3053b60 ]---
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > mm/sparse.c | 13 +++++++++++--
> > > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> > > index b2ada9dc00cb..55c18aff3e42 100644
> > > --- a/mm/sparse.c
> > > +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> > > @@ -344,6 +344,15 @@ size_t mem_section_usage_size(void)
> > > return sizeof(struct mem_section_usage) + usemap_size();
> > > }
> > >
> > > +static inline phys_addr_t pgdat_to_phys(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
> > > +{
> > > +#ifndef CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
> > > + return __pa_symbol(pgdat);
> > > +#else
> > > + return __pa(pgdat);
> > > +#endif
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
> > > static struct mem_section_usage * __init
> > > sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> > > @@ -362,7 +371,7 @@ sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> > > * from the same section as the pgdat where possible to avoid
> > > * this problem.
> > > */
> > > - goal = __pa(pgdat) & (PAGE_SECTION_MASK << PAGE_SHIFT);
> > > + goal = pgdat_to_phys(pgdat) & (PAGE_SECTION_MASK << PAGE_SHIFT);
> > > limit = goal + (1UL << PA_SECTION_SHIFT);
> > > nid = early_pfn_to_nid(goal >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > > again:
> > > @@ -390,7 +399,7 @@ static void __init check_usemap_section_nr(int nid,
> > > }
> > >
> > > usemap_snr = pfn_to_section_nr(__pa(usage) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > > - pgdat_snr = pfn_to_section_nr(__pa(pgdat) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > > + pgdat_snr = pfn_to_section_nr(pgdat_to_phys(pgdat) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > > if (usemap_snr == pgdat_snr)
> > > return;
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.18.0
> >
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
