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mm: don't defer struct page initialization for Xen pv guests
Commit f7f9910 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap") broke Xen pv domains in some configurations, as the "Pinned" information in struct page of early page tables could get lost. This will lead to the kernel trying to write directly into the page tables instead of asking the hypervisor to do so. The result is a crash like the following: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8801ead19008 IP: xen_set_pud+0x4e/0xd0 PGD 1c0a067 P4D 1c0a067 PUD 23a0067 PMD 1e9de0067 PTE 80100001ead19065 Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.14.0-default+ #271 Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E6440/0159N7, BIOS A07 06/26/2014 task: ffffffff81c10480 task.stack: ffffffff81c00000 RIP: e030:xen_set_pud+0x4e/0xd0 Call Trace: __pmd_alloc+0x128/0x140 ioremap_page_range+0x3f4/0x410 __ioremap_caller+0x1c3/0x2e0 acpi_os_map_iomem+0x175/0x1b0 acpi_tb_acquire_table+0x39/0x66 acpi_tb_validate_table+0x44/0x7c acpi_tb_verify_temp_table+0x45/0x304 acpi_reallocate_root_table+0x12d/0x141 acpi_early_init+0x4d/0x10a start_kernel+0x3eb/0x4a1 xen_start_kernel+0x528/0x532 Code: 48 01 e8 48 0f 42 15 a2 fd be 00 48 01 d0 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 ea ff ff 48 c1 e8 0c 48 c1 e0 06 48 01 d0 48 8b 00 f6 c4 02 75 5d <4c> 89 65 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 65 8b 05 52 9f fe 7e 89 c0 48 0f a3 RIP: xen_set_pud+0x4e/0xd0 RSP: ffffffff81c03cd8 CR2: ffff8801ead19008 ---[ end trace 38eca2e56f1b642e ]--- Avoid this problem by not deferring struct page initialization when running as Xen pv guest. Pavel said: : This is unique for Xen, so this particular issue won't effect other : configurations. I am going to investigate if there is a way to : re-enable deferred page initialization on xen guests. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: explicitly include xen.h] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180216154101.22865-1-jgross@suse.com Fixes: f7f9910 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.15.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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