[PATCH] mm/hugetlb: init tails before init_migratetype

From: Michal Clapinski

Date: Mon Jun 22 2026 - 06:19:30 EST


Currently, if you enable HVO, DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT and VM_DEBUG
the kernel will crash with the following stack trace

get_pfnblock_bitmap_bitidx
__set_pfnblock_flags_mask
hugetlb_bootmem_init_migratetype
prep_and_add_bootmem_folios
gather_bootmem_prealloc_node
gather_bootmem_prealloc_parallel
padata_do_multithreaded
gather_bootmem_prealloc
hugetlb_init

on this code

VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!zone_spans_pfn(page_zone(page), pfn), page);

This code looks inside the struct page which will be uninitialized
for hugetlb tail pages, which will cause a false positive.

So let's initialize the tail pages before this happens.

Fixes: 622026e87c40 ("mm/hugetlb: remove fake head pages")
Signed-off-by: Michal Clapinski <mclapinski@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
I think this one check is the only thing that fails, so I can probably
just remove it instead.
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 1 +
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 14 +++++++++-----
mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.h | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 571212b80835..de5e7c104c10 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -4127,6 +4127,7 @@ static int __init hugetlb_init(void)
}

hugetlb_init_hstates();
+ hugetlb_vmemmap_init_tails();
gather_bootmem_prealloc();
report_hugepages();

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index 133b46dfb09f..cf485c101926 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -867,14 +867,10 @@ static const struct ctl_table hugetlb_vmemmap_sysctls[] = {
},
};

-static int __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init(void)
+void __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init_tails(void)
{
- const struct hstate *h;
struct zone *zone;

- /* HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_SIZE should cover all used struct pages */
- BUILD_BUG_ON(__NR_USED_SUBPAGE > HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_PAGES);
-
for_each_zone(zone) {
for (int i = 0; i < NR_VMEMMAP_TAILS; i++) {
struct page *tail, *p;
@@ -890,6 +886,14 @@ static int __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init(void)
init_compound_tail(p + j, NULL, order, zone);
}
}
+}
+
+static int __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init(void)
+{
+ const struct hstate *h;
+
+ /* HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_SIZE should cover all used struct pages */
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(__NR_USED_SUBPAGE > HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_PAGES);

for_each_hstate(h) {
if (hugetlb_vmemmap_optimizable(h)) {
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.h b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.h
index 18b490825215..91cdb28969fa 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.h
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#define HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_PAGES (HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page))

#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
+void hugetlb_vmemmap_init_tails(void);
int hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(const struct hstate *h, struct folio *folio);
long hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folios(const struct hstate *h,
struct list_head *folio_list,
@@ -72,6 +73,10 @@ static inline void hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios(struct hstate *h, struct list
{
}

+static inline void hugetlb_vmemmap_init_tails(void)
+{
+}
+
static inline void hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_bootmem_folios(struct hstate *h,
struct list_head *folio_list)
{
--
2.55.0.rc0.799.gd6f94ed593-goog