Re: [PATCH v6 04/10] mm/memory_hotplug: Don't access uninitialized memmaps in shrink_zone_span()

[David Hildenbrand]

On 06.10.19 10:56, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Let's limit shrinking to !ZONE_DEVICE so we can fix the current code. We
> should never try to touch the memmap of offline sections where we could
> have uninitialized memmaps and could trigger BUGs when calling
> page_to_nid() on poisoned pages.
>
> There is no reliable way to distinguish an uninitialized memmap from an
> initialized memmap that belongs to ZONE_DEVICE, as we don't have
> anything like SECTION_IS_ONLINE we can use similar to
> pfn_to_online_section() for !ZONE_DEVICE memory. E.g.,
> set_zone_contiguous() similarly relies on pfn_to_online_section() and
> will therefore never set a ZONE_DEVICE zone consecutive. Stopping to
> shrink the ZONE_DEVICE therefore results in no observable changes,
> besides /proc/zoneinfo indicating different boundaries - something we
> can totally live with.
>
> Before commit d0dc12e86b31 ("mm/memory_hotplug: optimize memory
> hotplug"), the memmap was initialized with 0 and the node with the
> right value. So the zone might be wrong but not garbage. After that
> commit, both the zone and the node will be garbage when touching
> uninitialized memmaps.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: d0dc12e86b31 ("mm/memory_hotplug: optimize memory hotplug")

@Andrew, can you convert that to

Fixes: f1dd2cd13c4b ("mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded 
memory to zones until online") # visible after d0dc12e86b319

and add

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.13+


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb