Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] "Bad page state" while freeing gigantic pages

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Tue Dec 08 2020 - 13:36:23 EST




On 08.12.20 19:28, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> The following "Bad page state" occurs on s390 when freeing gigantic pages:
>
> [ 276.681603] BUG: Bad page state in process bash pfn:380001
> [ 276.681614] page:00000000c35f0856 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000126b68aa index:0x0 pfn:0x380001
> [ 276.681620] aops:0x0
> [ 276.681622] flags: 0x3ffff00000000000()
> [ 276.681626] raw: 3ffff00000000000 0000000000000100 0000000000000122 0000000100000000
> [ 276.681628] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff00000000 0000000000000000
> [ 276.681630] page dumped because: non-NULL mapping
> [ 276.681632] Modules linked in:
> [ 276.681637] CPU: 6 PID: 616 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.10.0-rc7-next-20201208 #1
> [ 276.681639] Hardware name: IBM 3906 M03 703 (LPAR)
> [ 276.681641] Call Trace:
> [ 276.681648] [<0000000458c252b6>] show_stack+0x6e/0xe8
> [ 276.681652] [<000000045971cf60>] dump_stack+0x90/0xc8
> [ 276.681656] [<0000000458e8b186>] bad_page+0xd6/0x130
> [ 276.681658] [<0000000458e8cdea>] free_pcppages_bulk+0x26a/0x800
> [ 276.681661] [<0000000458e8e67e>] free_unref_page+0x6e/0x90
> [ 276.681663] [<0000000458e8ea6c>] free_contig_range+0x94/0xe8
> [ 276.681666] [<0000000458ea5e54>] update_and_free_page+0x1c4/0x2c8
> [ 276.681669] [<0000000458ea784e>] free_pool_huge_page+0x11e/0x138
> [ 276.681671] [<0000000458ea8530>] set_max_huge_pages+0x228/0x300
> [ 276.681673] [<0000000458ea86c0>] nr_hugepages_store_common+0xb8/0x130
> [ 276.681678] [<0000000458fd5b6a>] kernfs_fop_write+0xd2/0x218
> [ 276.681681] [<0000000458ef9da0>] vfs_write+0xb0/0x2b8
> [ 276.681684] [<0000000458efa15c>] ksys_write+0xac/0xe0
> [ 276.681687] [<000000045972c5ca>] system_call+0xe6/0x288
> [ 276.681730] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
>
> I bisected it to commit 1378a5ee451a ("mm: store compound_nr as well as
> compound_order"), and it seems that the new compound_nr overlaying
> page->mapping is not properly cleared, which then triggers the non-NULL
> mapping warning.
>
> This is because only the compound_order is cleared in
> destroy_compound_gigantic_page(), and compound_nr is set to 1U << order == 1
> for order 0 in set_compound_order(page, 0).
>
> For some reason, I can not reproduce this on x86, but I do not see where
> this could be an arch-sepcific issue. Still, I might be missing something,
> and my proposed patch also looks a bit ugly (at least to me), hence this
> RFC. Any comments?
>
> BTW, for "normal sized" hugepages, this is not an issue, as page->mapping
> seems to be cleared explicitly in this case, in free_tail_pages_check(),
> but the freeing path for normal hugepages is quite different from that for
> gigantic pages using free_contig_range(). So a "page[1].mapping = NULL"
> might also be an option, instead of the "page[1].compound_nr = 0" in my
> patch, but that looks even more ugly, since it would clear more than
> needed.
>
> Gerald Schaefer (1):
> mm/hugetlb: clear compound_nr before freeing gigantic pages
>
> mm/hugetlb.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

I cant see the patch?