This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64/mm: Fix pfn_valid() for ZONE_DEVICE based memory to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm64-mm-fix-pfn_valid-for-zone_device-based-memory.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 10f985db4ffe320f01a1ba1ef9b1805c91208973 Author: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 5 10:54:57 2021 +0530 arm64/mm: Fix pfn_valid() for ZONE_DEVICE based memory [ Upstream commit eeb0753ba27b26f609e61f9950b14f1b934fe429 ] pfn_valid() validates a pfn but basically it checks for a valid struct page backing for that pfn. It should always return positive for memory ranges backed with struct page mapping. But currently pfn_valid() fails for all ZONE_DEVICE based memory types even though they have struct page mapping. pfn_valid() asserts that there is a memblock entry for a given pfn without MEMBLOCK_NOMAP flag being set. The problem with ZONE_DEVICE based memory is that they do not have memblock entries. Hence memblock_is_map_memory() will invariably fail via memblock_search() for a ZONE_DEVICE based address. This eventually fails pfn_valid() which is wrong. memblock_is_map_memory() needs to be skipped for such memory ranges. As ZONE_DEVICE memory gets hotplugged into the system via memremap_pages() called from a driver, their respective memory sections will not have SECTION_IS_EARLY set. Normal hotplug memory will never have MEMBLOCK_NOMAP set in their memblock regions. Because the flag MEMBLOCK_NOMAP was specifically designed and set for firmware reserved memory regions. memblock_is_map_memory() can just be skipped as its always going to be positive and that will be an optimization for the normal hotplug memory. Like ZONE_DEVICE based memory, all normal hotplugged memory too will not have SECTION_IS_EARLY set for their sections Skipping memblock_is_map_memory() for all non early memory sections would fix pfn_valid() problem for ZONE_DEVICE based memory and also improve its performance for normal hotplug memory as well. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 73b20c84d42d ("arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support") Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1614921898-4099-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c index 709d98fea90c..1141075e4d53 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c @@ -230,6 +230,18 @@ int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn) if (!valid_section(__pfn_to_section(pfn))) return 0; + + /* + * ZONE_DEVICE memory does not have the memblock entries. + * memblock_is_map_memory() check for ZONE_DEVICE based + * addresses will always fail. Even the normal hotplugged + * memory will never have MEMBLOCK_NOMAP flag set in their + * memblock entries. Skip memblock search for all non early + * memory sections covering all of hotplug memory including + * both normal and ZONE_DEVICE based. + */ + if (!early_section(__pfn_to_section(pfn))) + return pfn_section_valid(__pfn_to_section(pfn), pfn); #endif return memblock_is_map_memory(addr); }