Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2021-05-10

Re: [PATCH v2] ARC: Use max_high_pfn as a HIGHMEM zone border

From: Vineet Gupta <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-10 19:50:33
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On 4/27/21 5:13 AM, Vladimir Isaev wrote:
Commit 4af22ded0ecf ("arc: fix memory initialization for systems
with two memory banks") fixed highmem, but for the PAE case it causes
bug messages:

BUG: Bad page state in process swapper  pfn:80000
page:(ptrval) refcount:0 mapcount:1 mapping:00000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x80000
flags: 0x0()
raw: 00000000 00000100 00000122 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
raw: 00000000
page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.12.0-rc5-00003-g1e43c377a79f #1

Stack Trace:
   arc_unwind_core+0xe8/0x118
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

This is because the fix expects highmem to be always less than
lowmem and uses min_low_pfn as an upper zone border for highmem.

max_high_pfn should be ok for both highmem and highmem+PAE cases.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Isaev <redacted>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <redacted>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <redacted>
Applied to for-curr.

Thx,
-Vineet
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
Changes for v2:
  - Revised commit message and added comment to code
---
  arch/arc/mm/init.c | 11 ++++++++++-
  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arc/mm/init.c b/arch/arc/mm/init.c
index ce07e697916c..1bcc6985b9a0 100644
--- a/arch/arc/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arc/mm/init.c
@@ -157,7 +157,16 @@ void __init setup_arch_memory(void)
  	min_high_pfn = PFN_DOWN(high_mem_start);
  	max_high_pfn = PFN_DOWN(high_mem_start + high_mem_sz);
  
-	max_zone_pfn[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = min_low_pfn;
+	/*
+	 * max_high_pfn should be ok here for both HIGHMEM and HIGHMEM+PAE.
+	 * For HIGHMEM without PAE max_high_pfn should be less than
+	 * min_low_pfn to guarantee that these two regions don't overlap.
+	 * For PAE case highmem is greater than lowmem, so it is natural
+	 * to use max_high_pfn.
+	 *
+	 * In both cases, holes should be handled by pfn_valid().
+	 */
+	max_zone_pfn[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = max_high_pfn;
  
  	high_memory = (void *)(min_high_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
  
  
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