[PATCH RFC] mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: introduce HAS_STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_POWER_OF_2

From: Muchun Song
Date: Sat Mar 12 2022 - 01:58:32 EST


If the size of "struct page" is not the power of two and this
feature is enabled, then the vmemmap pages of HugeTLB will be
corrupted after remapping (panic is about to happen in theory).
But this only exists when !CONFIG_MEMCG && !CONFIG_SLUB on
x86_64. However, it is not a conventional configuration nowadays.
So it is not a real word issue, just the result of a code review.
But we have to prevent anyone from configuring that combined
configuration. In order to avoid many checks like "is_power_of_2
(sizeof(struct page))" through mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c. Introduce
HAS_STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_POWER_OF_2 to detect if the size of struct
page is power of 2 and make this feature depends on this new
config. Then we could prevent anyone do any unexpected
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Thanks Luis for proposing this idea. The initial implementation is as
follows. I found it could work properly at the first time after creating
.config. Then, if we use "make menuconfig" to disable CONFIG_MEMCG and
CONFIG_SLOB meaning the size of "struct page" becomes not power of 2,
whereas HAS_STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_POWER_OF_2 will not be changed to "n"
accordingly. I don't know how to make HAS_STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_POWER_OF_2
realize the potential change of the size of "struct page" since I am not
familiar with the Kconfig and how to detect this dependency. If you have
any suggestions, comments are really welcome.

Kbuild | 11 +++++++++++
fs/Kconfig | 5 ++++-
include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 ++
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 6 ------
mm/struct_page_size.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
scripts/check_struct_page_po2.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++++
6 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 mm/struct_page_size.c
create mode 100755 scripts/check_struct_page_po2.sh

diff --git a/Kbuild b/Kbuild
index fa441b98c9f6..7885e1211135 100644
--- a/Kbuild
+++ b/Kbuild
@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ $(bounds-file): kernel/bounds.s FORCE
$(call filechk,offsets,__LINUX_BOUNDS_H__)

#####
+# Generate struct_page_size.h. Must follows bounds.h.
+
+struct_page_size-file := include/generated/struct_page_size.h
+
+always-y := $(struct_page_size-file)
+targets := mm/struct_page_size.s
+
+$(struct_page_size-file): mm/struct_page_size.s FORCE
+ $(call filechk,offsets,__LINUX_STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_H__)
+
+#####
# Generate timeconst.h

timeconst-file := include/generated/timeconst.h
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 7f2455e8e18a..d663f600c608 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -245,10 +245,13 @@ config HUGETLBFS
config HUGETLB_PAGE
def_bool HUGETLBFS

+config HAS_STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_POWER_OF_2
+ def_bool $(success,test "$(shell, $(srctree)/scripts/check_struct_page_po2.sh)" = y)
+
config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
def_bool HUGETLB_PAGE
depends on X86_64
- depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
+ depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP && HAS_STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_POWER_OF_2

config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON
bool "Default freeing vmemmap pages of HugeTLB to on"
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 11dc4586464d..5da7dfa26596 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ struct page {
#endif
} _struct_page_alignment;

+#ifndef __GENERATING_STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_H
/**
* struct folio - Represents a contiguous set of bytes.
* @flags: Identical to the page flags.
@@ -849,5 +850,6 @@ enum fault_flag {
FAULT_FLAG_INSTRUCTION = 1 << 8,
FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE = 1 << 9,
};
+#endif /* !__GENERATING_STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_H */

#endif /* _LINUX_MM_TYPES_H */
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index b3118dba0518..d9e6b8b0af30 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -28,12 +28,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled_key);

static int __init early_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_param(char *buf)
{
- /* We cannot optimize if a "struct page" crosses page boundaries. */
- if (!is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page))) {
- pr_warn("cannot free vmemmap pages because \"struct page\" crosses page boundaries\n");
- return 0;
- }
-
if (!buf)
return -EINVAL;

diff --git a/mm/struct_page_size.c b/mm/struct_page_size.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6022a95ffc8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/struct_page_size.c
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Generate definitions needed by the preprocessor.
+ * This code generates raw asm output which is post-processed
+ * to extract and format the required data.
+ */
+
+#define __GENERATING_STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_H
+/* Include headers that define the enum constants of interest */
+#include <linux/kbuild.h>
+#include <linux/log2.h>
+#include <linux/mm_types.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ DEFINE(STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_POWER_OF_2, is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page)));
+
+ return 0;
+}
diff --git a/scripts/check_struct_page_po2.sh b/scripts/check_struct_page_po2.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..cf54c6b16cd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/check_struct_page_po2.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
+# Check if the size of "struct page" is power of 2
+
+file="include/generated/struct_page_size.h"
+if [ ! -f "$file" ]; then
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+struct_page_po2=$(grep STRUCT_PAGE_SIZE_POWER_OF_2 "$file" | cut -d' ' -f3)
+if [ "$struct_page_po2" = "1" ]; then
+ echo y
+else
+ echo n
+fi
--
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