This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/vmem: split pages when debug pagealloc is enabled to the 6.4-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: s390-vmem-split-pages-when-debug-pagealloc-is-enable.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 80f6a4e001711ee634ac53beabb5f3d10de1c561 Author: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 26 11:10:19 2023 +0200 s390/vmem: split pages when debug pagealloc is enabled [ Upstream commit edc1e4b6e26536868ef819a735e04a5b32c10589 ] Since commit bb1520d581a3 ("s390/mm: start kernel with DAT enabled") the kernel crashes early during boot when debug pagealloc is enabled: mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off addressing exception: 0005 ilc:2 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3-09759-gc5666c912155 #630 [..] Krnl Code: 00000000001325f6: ec5600248064 cgrj %r5,%r6,8,000000000013263e 00000000001325fc: eb880002000c srlg %r8,%r8,2 #0000000000132602: b2210051 ipte %r5,%r1,%r0,0 >0000000000132606: b90400d1 lgr %r13,%r1 000000000013260a: 41605008 la %r6,8(%r5) 000000000013260e: a7db1000 aghi %r13,4096 0000000000132612: b221006d ipte %r6,%r13,%r0,0 0000000000132616: e3d0d0000171 lay %r13,4096(%r13) Call Trace: __kernel_map_pages+0x14e/0x320 __free_pages_ok+0x23a/0x5a8) free_low_memory_core_early+0x214/0x2c8 memblock_free_all+0x28/0x58 mem_init+0xb6/0x228 mm_core_init+0xb6/0x3b0 start_kernel+0x1d2/0x5a8 startup_continue+0x36/0x40 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops This is caused by using large mappings on machines with EDAT1/EDAT2. Add the code to split the mappings into 4k pages if debug pagealloc is enabled by CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT or the debug_pagealloc kernel command line option. Fixes: bb1520d581a3 ("s390/mm: start kernel with DAT enabled") Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c b/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c index b9dcb4ae6c59a..05f4912380fac 100644 --- a/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c +++ b/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c @@ -761,6 +761,8 @@ void __init vmem_map_init(void) if (static_key_enabled(&cpu_has_bear)) set_memory_nx(0, 1); set_memory_nx(PAGE_SIZE, 1); + if (debug_pagealloc_enabled()) + set_memory_4k(0, ident_map_size >> PAGE_SHIFT); pr_info("Write protected kernel read-only data: %luk\n", (unsigned long)(__end_rodata - _stext) >> 10);