Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 4 authors, 2021-06-30

Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm: extend pfn_valid to take into accound freed memory map alignment

From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Date: 2021-06-29 08:54:11
Also in: linux-mm, linux-omap, lkml, regressions

Hi,

* Mike Rapoport [off-list ref] [210629 05:33]:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 06:26:26PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
quoted
* Mike Rapoport [off-list ref] [210628 14:07]:
quoted
Can you please send log with 'memblock=debug' added to the command line?
Sure, log now available at:

http://muru.com/beagle-x15.txt
Hmm, no clues yet :(

Do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS and
CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING enabled in your config?
If not, can you please enable them and see if any of VM_BUG_* triggers?
OK enabled, and no errors or warnings are triggered.
Do you use FLATMEM or SPARSEMEM in your config?
Looks like make omap2plus_defconfig enables FLATMEM:

$ grep -e SPARSEMEM -e FLATMEM .config
CONFIG_ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
# CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set
CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
Let's try seeing what PFNs get false results from pfn_valid, maybe this
will give a better lead.
With your patch below, system boots with lots of the following:

[   13.058654] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 1024K
...
[   13.129211] pfn_valid(__sync_icache_dcache+0x2c/0x138): pfn: fffb6: is_map: 1 overlaps: 0
[   13.137481] pfn_valid(__sync_icache_dcache+0x2c/0x138): pfn: fffb7: is_map: 1 overlaps: 0
[   13.145751] pfn_valid(__sync_icache_dcache+0x2c/0x138): pfn: fffb8: is_map: 1 overlaps: 0
[   13.153991] pfn_valid(__sync_icache_dcache+0x2c/0x138): pfn: fffb9: is_map: 1 overlaps: 0
[   13.162200] pfn_valid(__sync_icache_dcache+0x2c/0x138): pfn: fffba: is_map: 1 overlaps: 0
[   13.170440] pfn_valid(__sync_icache_dcache+0x2c/0x138): pfn: fffbb: is_map: 1 overlaps: 0
[   13.178680] pfn_valid(__sync_icache_dcache+0x2c/0x138): pfn: fffbc: is_map: 1 overlaps: 0
[   13.186920] pfn_valid(__sync_icache_dcache+0x2c/0x138): pfn: fffbd: is_map: 1 overlaps: 0
[   13.195159] pfn_valid(__sync_icache_dcache+0x2c/0x138): pfn: fffbe: is_map: 1 overlaps: 0
[   13.203399] pfn_valid(__sync_icache_dcache+0x2c/0x138): pfn: fffbf: is_map: 1 overlaps: 0
[   13.211639] pfn_valid(__sync_icache_dcache+0x2c/0x138): pfn: fff00: is_map: 1 overlaps: 0
...

Then changing console loglevel to 0 boots system to login prompt. But I'm
seeing some init processes segfaulting during start-up.

Regards,

Tony

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index 6162a070a410..66985fc3e730 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -126,10 +126,16 @@ int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
 {
 	phys_addr_t addr = __pfn_to_phys(pfn);
 	unsigned long pageblock_size = PAGE_SIZE * pageblock_nr_pages;
+	bool overlaps = memblock_overlaps_region(&memblock.memory,
+				     ALIGN_DOWN(addr, pageblock_size),
+				     pageblock_size);
 
 	if (__phys_to_pfn(addr) != pfn)
 		return 0;
 
+	if (memblock_is_map_memory(addr) != overlaps)
+		pr_info("%s(%pS): pfn: %lx: is_map: %d overlaps: %d\n", __func__, (void *)_RET_IP_, pfn, memblock_is_map_memory(addr), overlaps);
+
 	/*
 	 * If address less than pageblock_size bytes away from a present
 	 * memory chunk there still will be a memory map entry for it
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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