[PATCH v3 04/19] mm/hugetlb: Initialize gigantic bootmem hugepage struct pages earlier
From: Muchun Song
Date: Tue Jun 02 2026 - 06:28:10 EST
Gigantic bootmem HugeTLB pages are currently initialized from hugetlb_init(),
but page_alloc_init_late() runs earlier and walks pageblocks to determine
zone contiguity.
If a bootmem HugeTLB region is marked noinit, set_zone_contiguous() can
observe still-uninitialized struct pages through __pageblock_pfn_to_page().
This may not trigger an immediate failure, but it can make
set_zone_contiguous() compute the wrong zone contiguity state. If extra
poisoned-page checks are added in this path, such as PF_POISONED_CHECK()
in page_zone_id(), it can also trigger an early boot panic.
Initialize gigantic bootmem HugeTLB struct pages from page_alloc_init_late(),
before zone contiguity is evaluated, so later page allocator setup only
sees valid struct page state. This also makes the initialization order
more natural, as struct pages should be initialized before later code
inspects them.
Fixes: fde1c4ecf916 ("mm: hugetlb: skip initialization of gigantic tail struct pages if freed by HVO")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
---
v2->v3:
- rename the helper to hugetlb_bootmem_struct_page_init() to make the
bootmem-only scope explicit (per Oscar Salvador)
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 5 +++++
mm/hugetlb.c | 5 ++---
mm/mm_init.c | 1 +
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 2abaf99321e9..3700c0a1f6ff 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ extern int movable_gigantic_pages __read_mostly;
extern int sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group __read_mostly;
extern struct list_head huge_boot_pages[MAX_NUMNODES];
+void hugetlb_bootmem_struct_page_init(void);
void hugetlb_bootmem_alloc(void);
extern nodemask_t hugetlb_bootmem_nodes;
void hugetlb_bootmem_set_nodes(void);
@@ -1293,6 +1294,10 @@ static inline bool hugetlbfs_pagecache_present(
static inline void hugetlb_bootmem_alloc(void)
{
}
+
+static inline void hugetlb_bootmem_struct_page_init(void)
+{
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
static inline spinlock_t *huge_pte_lock(struct hstate *h,
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index cd55524c7e30..2bf9fe16abb9 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3353,7 +3353,7 @@ static void __init gather_bootmem_prealloc_parallel(unsigned long start,
gather_bootmem_prealloc_node(nid);
}
-static void __init gather_bootmem_prealloc(void)
+void __init hugetlb_bootmem_struct_page_init(void)
{
struct padata_mt_job job = {
.thread_fn = gather_bootmem_prealloc_parallel,
@@ -3582,7 +3582,7 @@ static unsigned long __init hugetlb_pages_alloc_boot(struct hstate *h)
* - For gigantic pages, this is called early in the boot process and
* pages are allocated from memblock allocated or something similar.
* Gigantic pages are actually added to pools later with the routine
- * gather_bootmem_prealloc.
+ * hugetlb_bootmem_struct_page_init.
* - For non-gigantic pages, this is called later in the boot process after
* all of mm is up and functional. Pages are allocated from buddy and
* then added to hugetlb pools.
@@ -4152,7 +4152,6 @@ static int __init hugetlb_init(void)
}
hugetlb_init_hstates();
- gather_bootmem_prealloc();
report_hugepages();
hugetlb_sysfs_init();
diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
index 6de3a77eb9ae..1890bda948b8 100644
--- a/mm/mm_init.c
+++ b/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -2338,6 +2338,7 @@ void __init page_alloc_init_late(void)
/* Reinit limits that are based on free pages after the kernel is up */
files_maxfiles_init();
#endif
+ hugetlb_bootmem_struct_page_init();
/* Accounting of total+free memory is stable at this point. */
mem_init_print_info();
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index 8f41b73fb674..db9cfe57e827 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -342,8 +342,8 @@ static __meminit struct page *vmemmap_get_tail(unsigned int order, struct zone *
*
* Any initialization done here will be overwritten by memmap_init().
*
- * gather_bootmem_prealloc() will take care of initialization after
- * memmap_init().
+ * hugetlb_bootmem_struct_page_init() will take care of initialization
+ * after memmap_init().
*/
p = vmemmap_alloc_block_zero(PAGE_SIZE, node);
--
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