Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix the problem of mips architecture Oops

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Fri Jun 25 2021 - 09:39:36 EST


On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 11:22:12AM +0800, zhanglianjie wrote:
> The cause of the problem is as follows:
> 1. when cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory0/valid_zones,
> test_pages_in_a_zone() will be called.
> 2. test_pages_in_a_zone() finds the zone according to stat_pfn = 0.
> The smallest pfn of the numa node in the mips architecture is 128,
> and the page corresponding to the previous 0~127 pfn is not
> initialized (page->flags is 0xFFFFFFFF)
> 3. The nid and zonenum obtained using page_zone(pfn_to_page(0)) are out
> of bounds in the corresponding array,
> &NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page))->node_zones[page_zonenum(page)],
> access to the out-of-bounds zone member variables appear abnormal,
> resulting in Oops.
> Therefore, it is necessary to keep the page between 0 and the minimum
> pfn to prevent Oops from appearing.
>
> Signed-off-by: zhanglianjie <zhanglianjie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
> index 23a140327a0b..f1da2b2ba5e9 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -653,6 +653,8 @@ static void __init arch_mem_init(char **cmdline_p)
> */
> memblock_set_current_limit(PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn));
>
> + memblock_reserve(0, PAGE_SIZE * NODE_DATA(0)->node_start_pfn);
> +

which platform needs this ? This look it should be better fixed in
the platform memory registration code.

Thomas.

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