Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/shuffle: don't move pages between zones and don't read garbage memmaps

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On Fri, 2020-06-19 at 14:59 +-0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
+AD4- Especially with memory hotplug, we can have offline sections (with a
+AD4- garbage memmap) and overlapping zones. We have to make sure to only
+AD4- touch initialized memmaps (online sections managed by the buddy) and
+AD4- that
+AD4- the zone matches, to not move pages between zones.
+AD4- 
+AD4- To test if this can actually happen, I added a simple
+AD4- 	BUG+AF8-ON(page+AF8-zone(page+AF8-i) +ACEAPQ- page+AF8-zone(page+AF8-j))+ADs-
+AD4- right before the swap. When hotplugging a 256M DIMM to a 4G x86-64 VM
+AD4- and
+AD4- onlining the first memory block +ACI-online+AF8-movable+ACI- and the second
+AD4- memory
+AD4- block +ACI-online+AF8-kernel+ACI-, it will trigger the BUG, as both zones (NORMAL
+AD4- and MOVABLE) overlap.
+AD4- 
+AD4- This might result in all kinds of weird situations (e.g., double
+AD4- allocations, list corruptions, unmovable allocations ending up in the
+AD4- movable zone).
+AD4- 
+AD4- Fixes: e900a918b098 (+ACI-mm: shuffle initial free memory to improve
+AD4- memory-side-cache utilization+ACI-)
+AD4- Acked-by: Michal Hocko +ADw-mhocko+AEA-suse.com+AD4-
+AD4- Cc: stable+AEA-vger.kernel.org +ACM- v5.2+-
+AD4- Cc: Andrew Morton +ADw-akpm+AEA-linux-foundation.org+AD4-
+AD4- Cc: Johannes Weiner +ADw-hannes+AEA-cmpxchg.org+AD4-
+AD4- Cc: Michal Hocko +ADw-mhocko+AEA-suse.com+AD4-
+AD4- Cc: Minchan Kim +ADw-minchan+AEA-kernel.org+AD4-
+AD4- Cc: Huang Ying +ADw-ying.huang+AEA-intel.com+AD4-
+AD4- Cc: Wei Yang +ADw-richard.weiyang+AEA-gmail.com+AD4-
+AD4- Cc: Mel Gorman +ADw-mgorman+AEA-techsingularity.net+AD4-
+AD4- Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand +ADw-david+AEA-redhat.com+AD4-

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Dan Williams +ADw-dan.j.williams+AEA-intel.com+AD4-





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