Re: [PATCH] mm, hugetlb: Increment the number of pages to be reset on HVO

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Apr 15 2025 - 09:03:03 EST


On 15.04.25 13:18, Oscar Salvador wrote:
commit 4eeec8c89a0c ("mm: move hugetlb specific things in folio to page[3]")
shifted hugetlb specific stuff, and now mapping overlaps _hugetlb_cgroup field.

Upon restoring the vmemmap for HVO, only the first two tail pages are reset, and
this causes the check in free_tail_page_prepare() to fail as it finds
an unexpected mapping value in some tails.

Increment the number of pages to be reset to 4 (head + 3 tail pages)

Fixes: 4eeec8c89a0c ("mm: move hugetlb specific things in folio to page[3]")
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index 9a99dfa3c495..27245e86df25 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -238,11 +238,11 @@ static void vmemmap_remap_pte(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr,
* struct page, the special metadata (e.g. page->flags or page->mapping)
* cannot copy to the tail struct page structs. The invalid value will be
* checked in the free_tail_page_prepare(). In order to avoid the message
- * of "corrupted mapping in tail page". We need to reset at least 3 (one
- * head struct page struct and two tail struct page structs) struct page
+ * of "corrupted mapping in tail page". We need to reset at least 4 (one
+ * head struct page struct and three tail struct page structs) struct page
* structs.
*/
-#define NR_RESET_STRUCT_PAGE 3
+#define NR_RESET_STRUCT_PAGE 4
static inline void reset_struct_pages(struct page *start)
{

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>


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Cheers,

David / dhildenb