Revision efad4e475c312456edb3c789d0996d12ed744c13 authored by Michal Hocko on 01 February 2019, 22:20:34 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 01 February 2019, 23:46:23 UTC
Patch series "mm, memory_hotplug: fix uninitialized pages fallouts", v2.
Mikhail Zaslonko has posted fixes for the two bugs quite some time ago
[1]. I have pushed back on those fixes because I believed that it is
much better to plug the problem at the initialization time rather than
play whack-a-mole all over the hotplug code and find all the places
which expect the full memory section to be initialized.
We have ended up with commit 2830bf6f05fb ("mm, memory_hotplug:
initialize struct pages for the full memory section") merged and cause a
regression [2][3]. The reason is that there might be memory layouts
when two NUMA nodes share the same memory section so the merged fix is
simply incorrect.
In order to plug this hole we really have to be zone range aware in
those handlers. I have split up the original patch into two. One is
unchanged (patch 2) and I took a different approach for `removable'
crash.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105150401.97287-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1666948
[3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190125163938.GA20411@dhcp22.suse.cz
This patch (of 2):
Mikhail has reported the following VM_BUG_ON triggered when reading sysfs
removable state of a memory block:
page:000003d08300c000 is uninitialized and poisoned
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p))
Call Trace:
is_mem_section_removable+0xb4/0x190
show_mem_removable+0x9a/0xd8
dev_attr_show+0x34/0x70
sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xc8/0x148
seq_read+0x204/0x480
__vfs_read+0x32/0x178
vfs_read+0x82/0x138
ksys_read+0x5a/0xb0
system_call+0xdc/0x2d8
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
is_mem_section_removable+0xb4/0x190
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops
The reason is that the memory block spans the zone boundary and we are
stumbling over an unitialized struct page. Fix this by enforcing zone
range in is_mem_section_removable so that we never run away from a zone.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128144506.15603-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Debugged-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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IRQ.txt
===============
What is an IRQ?
===============
An IRQ is an interrupt request from a device.
Currently they can come in over a pin, or over a packet.
Several devices may be connected to the same pin thus
sharing an IRQ.
An IRQ number is a kernel identifier used to talk about a hardware
interrupt source. Typically this is an index into the global irq_desc
array, but except for what linux/interrupt.h implements the details
are architecture specific.
An IRQ number is an enumeration of the possible interrupt sources on a
machine. Typically what is enumerated is the number of input pins on
all of the interrupt controller in the system. In the case of ISA
what is enumerated are the 16 input pins on the two i8259 interrupt
controllers.
Architectures can assign additional meaning to the IRQ numbers, and
are encouraged to in the case where there is any manual configuration
of the hardware involved. The ISA IRQs are a classic example of
assigning this kind of additional meaning.
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