[PATCH v2] x86/e820: discard high memory that can't be addressed by 32-bit systems
From: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2025 - 03:36:17 EST
Dave Hansen reports the following crash on a 32-bit system with
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y and CONFIG_X86_PAE=y:
> 0xf75fe000 is the mem_map[] entry for the first page >4GB. It
> obviously wasn't allocated, thus the oops.
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: f75fe000
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
*pdpt = 0000000002da2001 *pde = 000000000300c067 *pte = 0000000000000000
Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1-00288-ge618ee89561b-dirty #311 PREEMPT(undef)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
EIP: __free_pages_core+0x3c/0x74
Code: c3 d3 e6 83 ec 10 89 44 24 08 89 74 24 04 c7 04 24 c6 32 3a c2 89 55 f4 e8 a9 11 45 fe 85 f6 8b 55 f4 74 19 89 d8 31 c9 66 90 <0f> ba 30 0d c7 40 1c 00 00 00 00 41 83 c0 28 39 ce 75 ed 8b
EAX: f75fe000 EBX: f75fe000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 0000000a
ESI: 00000400 EDI: 00500000 EBP: c247becc ESP: c247beb4
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00210046
CR0: 80050033 CR2: f75fe000 CR3: 02da6000 CR4: 000000b0
Call Trace:
memblock_free_pages+0x11/0x2c
memblock_free_all+0x2ce/0x3a0
mm_core_init+0xf5/0x320
start_kernel+0x296/0x79c
? set_init_arg+0x70/0x70
? load_ucode_bsp+0x13c/0x1a8
i386_start_kernel+0xad/0xb0
startup_32_smp+0x151/0x154
Modules linked in:
CR2: 00000000f75fe000
The mem_map[] is allocated up to the end of ZONE_HIGHMEM which is defined
by max_pfn.
Before 6faea3422e3b ("arch, mm: streamline HIGHMEM freeing") freeing of
high memory was also clamped to the end of ZONE_HIGHMEM but after
6faea3422e3b memblock_free_all() tries to free memory above the of
ZONE_HIGHMEM as well and that causes access to mem_map[] entries beyond
the end of the memory map.
Discard the memory after MAX_NONPAE_PFN from memblock on 32-bit systems
so that core MM would be aware only of actually usable memory.
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index 57120f0749cc..5e6b1034e6f1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -1300,6 +1300,13 @@ void __init e820__memblock_setup(void)
memblock_add(entry->addr, entry->size);
}
+ /*
+ * Discard memory above 4GB because 32-bit systems are limited to 4GB
+ * of memory even with HIGHMEM.
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_32))
+ memblock_remove(PFN_PHYS(MAX_NONPAE_PFN), -1);
+
/* Throw away partial pages: */
memblock_trim_memory(PAGE_SIZE);
--
2.47.2
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.