On Thu, Nov 27 2025, [email protected] wrote: > From: Ran Xiaokai <[email protected]> > > When booting with debug_pagealloc=on while having: > CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_ENABLE_DEFAULT=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=n > the system fails to boot due to page faults during kmemleak scanning. > > This occurs because: > With debug_pagealloc is enabled, __free_pages() invokes > debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages(), clearing the _PAGE_PRESENT bit for > freed pages in the kernel page table. > KHO scratch areas are allocated from memblock and noted by kmemleak. But > these areas don't remain reserved but released later to the page allocator > using init_cma_reserved_pageblock(). This causes subsequent kmemleak scans > access non-PRESENT pages, leading to fatal page faults. > > Mark scratch areas with kmemleak_ignore_phys() after they are allocated > from memblock to exclude them from kmemleak scanning before they are > released to buddy allocator to fix this. > > Fixes: 3dc92c311498 ("kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers") > Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <[email protected]> Thanks! [...] -- Regards, Pratyush Yadav
