On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 02:44:30PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com> writes:
On 04.01.19 15:19, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
Hyper-V memory hotplug protocol has 2M granularity and in Linux x86 we use
128M. To deal with it we implement partial section onlining by registering
custom page onlining callback (hv_online_page()). Later, when more memory
arrives we try to online the 'tail' (see hv_bring_pgs_online()).

It was found that in some cases this 'tail' onlining causes issues:

 BUG: Bad page state in process kworker/0:2  pfn:109e3a
 page:ffffe08344278e80 count:0 mapcount:1 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0
 flags: 0xfffff80000000()
 raw: 000fffff80000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000200 0000000000000000
 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
 ...
 Workqueue: events hot_add_req [hv_balloon]
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x5c/0x80
  bad_page.cold.112+0x7f/0xb2
  free_pcppages_bulk+0x4b8/0x690
  free_unref_page+0x54/0x70
  hv_page_online_one+0x5c/0x80 [hv_balloon]
  hot_add_req.cold.24+0x182/0x835 [hv_balloon]
  ...

Turns out that we now have deferred struct page initialization for memory
hotplug so e.g. memory_block_action() in drivers/base/memory.c does
pages_correctly_probed() check and in that check it avoids inspecting
struct pages and checks sections instead. But in Hyper-V balloon driver we
do PageReserved(pfn_to_page()) check and this is now wrong.

Switch to checking online_section_nr() instead.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuzn...@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
index 5301fef16c31..7c6349a50ef1 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
@@ -888,12 +888,14 @@ static unsigned long handle_pg_range(unsigned long 
pg_start,
                        pfn_cnt -= pgs_ol;
                        /*
                         * Check if the corresponding memory block is already
-                        * online by checking its last previously backed page.
-                        * In case it is we need to bring rest (which was not
-                        * backed previously) online too.
+                        * online. It is possible to observe struct pages still
+                        * being uninitialized here so check section instead.
+                        * In case the section is online we need to bring the
+                        * rest of pfns (which were not backed previously)
+                        * online too.
                         */
                        if (start_pfn > has->start_pfn &&
-                           !PageReserved(pfn_to_page(start_pfn - 1)))
+                           online_section_nr(pfn_to_section_nr(start_pfn)))
                                hv_bring_pgs_online(has, start_pfn, pgs_ol);

                }


I wonder if you should use pfn_to_online_page() and check for PageOffline().

(I guess online_section_nr() should also do the trick)

I'm worried a bit about racing with mm code here as we're not doing
mem_hotplug_begin()/done() so I'd slightly prefer keeping
online_section_nr() (pfn_to_online_page() also uses it but then it gets
to the particular struct page). Moreover, with pfn_to_online_page() we
will be looking at some other pfn - because the start_pfn is definitelly
offline (pre-patch we were looking at start_pfn-1). Just looking at the
whole section seems cleaner.

P.S. I still think about bringing mem_hotplug_begin()/done() to
hv_balloon but that's going to be a separate discussion, here I want to
have a small fix backportable to stable.

This should probably be marked for stable then :)

--
Thanks,
Sasha
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