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<title>mm, memory_hotplug: test_pages_in_a_zone do not pass the end of zone</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T07:44:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikhail Zaslonko</name>
<email>zaslonko@linux.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2019-02-01T22:20:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 24feb47c5fa5b825efb0151f28906dfdad027e61 ]

If memory end is not aligned with the sparse memory section boundary,
the mapping of such a section is only partly initialized.  This may lead
to VM_BUG_ON due to uninitialized struct pages access from
test_pages_in_a_zone() function triggered by memory_hotplug sysfs
handlers.

Here are the the panic examples:
 CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS=y
 kernel parameter mem=2050M
 --------------------------
 page:000003d082008000 is uninitialized and poisoned
 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p))
 Call Trace:
   test_pages_in_a_zone+0xde/0x160
   show_valid_zones+0x5c/0x190
   dev_attr_show+0x34/0x70
   sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xc8/0x148
   seq_read+0x204/0x480
   __vfs_read+0x32/0x178
   vfs_read+0x82/0x138
   ksys_read+0x5a/0xb0
   system_call+0xdc/0x2d8
 Last Breaking-Event-Address:
   test_pages_in_a_zone+0xde/0x160
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops

Fix this by checking whether the pfn to check is within the zone.

[mhocko@suse.com: separated this change from http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105150401.97287-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128144506.15603-3-mhocko@kernel.org

[mhocko@suse.com: separated this change from
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105150401.97287-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko &lt;zaslonko@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov &lt;mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mikhail Gavrilov &lt;mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 24feb47c5fa5b825efb0151f28906dfdad027e61 ]

If memory end is not aligned with the sparse memory section boundary,
the mapping of such a section is only partly initialized.  This may lead
to VM_BUG_ON due to uninitialized struct pages access from
test_pages_in_a_zone() function triggered by memory_hotplug sysfs
handlers.

Here are the the panic examples:
 CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS=y
 kernel parameter mem=2050M
 --------------------------
 page:000003d082008000 is uninitialized and poisoned
 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p))
 Call Trace:
   test_pages_in_a_zone+0xde/0x160
   show_valid_zones+0x5c/0x190
   dev_attr_show+0x34/0x70
   sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xc8/0x148
   seq_read+0x204/0x480
   __vfs_read+0x32/0x178
   vfs_read+0x82/0x138
   ksys_read+0x5a/0xb0
   system_call+0xdc/0x2d8
 Last Breaking-Event-Address:
   test_pages_in_a_zone+0xde/0x160
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops

Fix this by checking whether the pfn to check is within the zone.

[mhocko@suse.com: separated this change from http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105150401.97287-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128144506.15603-3-mhocko@kernel.org

[mhocko@suse.com: separated this change from
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105150401.97287-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko &lt;zaslonko@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov &lt;mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mikhail Gavrilov &lt;mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm, memory_hotplug: is_mem_section_removable do not pass the end of a zone</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T07:44:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-01T22:20:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit efad4e475c312456edb3c789d0996d12ed744c13 ]

Patch series "mm, memory_hotplug: fix uninitialized pages fallouts", v2.

Mikhail Zaslonko has posted fixes for the two bugs quite some time ago
[1].  I have pushed back on those fixes because I believed that it is
much better to plug the problem at the initialization time rather than
play whack-a-mole all over the hotplug code and find all the places
which expect the full memory section to be initialized.

We have ended up with commit 2830bf6f05fb ("mm, memory_hotplug:
initialize struct pages for the full memory section") merged and cause a
regression [2][3].  The reason is that there might be memory layouts
when two NUMA nodes share the same memory section so the merged fix is
simply incorrect.

In order to plug this hole we really have to be zone range aware in
those handlers.  I have split up the original patch into two.  One is
unchanged (patch 2) and I took a different approach for `removable'
crash.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105150401.97287-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1666948
[3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190125163938.GA20411@dhcp22.suse.cz

This patch (of 2):

Mikhail has reported the following VM_BUG_ON triggered when reading sysfs
removable state of a memory block:

 page:000003d08300c000 is uninitialized and poisoned
 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p))
 Call Trace:
   is_mem_section_removable+0xb4/0x190
   show_mem_removable+0x9a/0xd8
   dev_attr_show+0x34/0x70
   sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xc8/0x148
   seq_read+0x204/0x480
   __vfs_read+0x32/0x178
   vfs_read+0x82/0x138
   ksys_read+0x5a/0xb0
   system_call+0xdc/0x2d8
 Last Breaking-Event-Address:
   is_mem_section_removable+0xb4/0x190
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops

The reason is that the memory block spans the zone boundary and we are
stumbling over an unitialized struct page.  Fix this by enforcing zone
range in is_mem_section_removable so that we never run away from a zone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128144506.15603-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mikhail Zaslonko &lt;zaslonko@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Debugged-by: Mikhail Zaslonko &lt;zaslonko@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov &lt;mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit efad4e475c312456edb3c789d0996d12ed744c13 ]

Patch series "mm, memory_hotplug: fix uninitialized pages fallouts", v2.

Mikhail Zaslonko has posted fixes for the two bugs quite some time ago
[1].  I have pushed back on those fixes because I believed that it is
much better to plug the problem at the initialization time rather than
play whack-a-mole all over the hotplug code and find all the places
which expect the full memory section to be initialized.

We have ended up with commit 2830bf6f05fb ("mm, memory_hotplug:
initialize struct pages for the full memory section") merged and cause a
regression [2][3].  The reason is that there might be memory layouts
when two NUMA nodes share the same memory section so the merged fix is
simply incorrect.

In order to plug this hole we really have to be zone range aware in
those handlers.  I have split up the original patch into two.  One is
unchanged (patch 2) and I took a different approach for `removable'
crash.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105150401.97287-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1666948
[3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190125163938.GA20411@dhcp22.suse.cz

This patch (of 2):

Mikhail has reported the following VM_BUG_ON triggered when reading sysfs
removable state of a memory block:

 page:000003d08300c000 is uninitialized and poisoned
 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p))
 Call Trace:
   is_mem_section_removable+0xb4/0x190
   show_mem_removable+0x9a/0xd8
   dev_attr_show+0x34/0x70
   sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xc8/0x148
   seq_read+0x204/0x480
   __vfs_read+0x32/0x178
   vfs_read+0x82/0x138
   ksys_read+0x5a/0xb0
   system_call+0xdc/0x2d8
 Last Breaking-Event-Address:
   is_mem_section_removable+0xb4/0x190
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops

The reason is that the memory block spans the zone boundary and we are
stumbling over an unitialized struct page.  Fix this by enforcing zone
range in is_mem_section_removable so that we never run away from a zone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128144506.15603-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mikhail Zaslonko &lt;zaslonko@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Debugged-by: Mikhail Zaslonko &lt;zaslonko@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov &lt;mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>hwpoison, memory_hotplug: allow hwpoisoned pages to be offlined</title>
<updated>2019-01-13T09:05:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T08:38:01+00:00</published>
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commit b15c87263a69272423771118c653e9a1d0672caa upstream.

We have received a bug report that an injected MCE about faulty memory
prevents memory offline to succeed on 4.4 base kernel.  The underlying
reason was that the HWPoison page has an elevated reference count and the
migration keeps failing.  There are two problems with that.  First of all
it is dubious to migrate the poisoned page because we know that accessing
that memory is possible to fail.  Secondly it doesn't make any sense to
migrate a potentially broken content and preserve the memory corruption
over to a new location.

Oscar has found out that 4.4 and the current upstream kernels behave
slightly differently with his simply testcase

===

int main(void)
{
        int ret;
        int i;
        int fd;
        char *array = malloc(4096);
        char *array_locked = malloc(4096);

        fd = open("/tmp/data", O_RDONLY);
        read(fd, array, 4095);

        for (i = 0; i &lt; 4096; i++)
                array_locked[i] = 'd';

        ret = mlock((void *)PAGE_ALIGN((unsigned long)array_locked), sizeof(array_locked));
        if (ret)
                perror("mlock");

        sleep (20);

        ret = madvise((void *)PAGE_ALIGN((unsigned long)array_locked), 4096, MADV_HWPOISON);
        if (ret)
                perror("madvise");

        for (i = 0; i &lt; 4096; i++)
                array_locked[i] = 'd';

        return 0;
}
===

+ offline this memory.

In 4.4 kernels he saw the hwpoisoned page to be returned back to the LRU
list
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81019ac9&gt;] dump_trace+0x59/0x340
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81019e9a&gt;] show_stack_log_lvl+0xea/0x170
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8101ac71&gt;] show_stack+0x21/0x40
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8132bb90&gt;] dump_stack+0x5c/0x7c
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff810815a1&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xb0
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff811a275c&gt;] __pagevec_lru_add_fn+0x14c/0x160
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff811a2eed&gt;] pagevec_lru_move_fn+0xad/0x100
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff811a334c&gt;] __lru_cache_add+0x6c/0xb0
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81195236&gt;] add_to_page_cache_lru+0x46/0x70
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffffa02b4373&gt;] extent_readpages+0xc3/0x1a0 [btrfs]
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff811a16d7&gt;] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x177/0x200
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff811a18c8&gt;] ondemand_readahead+0x168/0x2a0
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8119673f&gt;] generic_file_read_iter+0x41f/0x660
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8120e50d&gt;] __vfs_read+0xcd/0x140
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8120e9ea&gt;] vfs_read+0x7a/0x120
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8121404b&gt;] kernel_read+0x3b/0x50
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81215c80&gt;] do_execveat_common.isra.29+0x490/0x6f0
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81215f08&gt;] do_execve+0x28/0x30
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81095ddb&gt;] call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0xfb/0x130
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8161c045&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x55/0x80

And that latter confuses the hotremove path because an LRU page is
attempted to be migrated and that fails due to an elevated reference
count.  It is quite possible that the reuse of the HWPoisoned page is some
kind of fixed race condition but I am not really sure about that.

With the upstream kernel the failure is slightly different.  The page
doesn't seem to have LRU bit set but isolate_movable_page simply fails and
do_migrate_range simply puts all the isolated pages back to LRU and
therefore no progress is made and scan_movable_pages finds same set of
pages over and over again.

Fix both cases by explicitly checking HWPoisoned pages before we even try
to get reference on the page, try to unmap it if it is still mapped.  As
explained by Naoya:

: Hwpoison code never unmapped those for no big reason because
: Ksm pages never dominate memory, so we simply didn't have strong
: motivation to save the pages.

Also put WARN_ON(PageLRU) in case there is a race and we can hit LRU
HWPoison pages which shouldn't happen but I couldn't convince myself about
that.  Naoya has noted the following:

: Theoretically no such gurantee, because try_to_unmap() doesn't have a
: guarantee of success and then memory_failure() returns immediately
: when hwpoison_user_mappings fails.
: Or the following code (comes after hwpoison_user_mappings block) also impli=
: es
: that the target page can still have PageLRU flag.
:
:         /*
:          * Torn down by someone else?
:          */
:         if (PageLRU(p) &amp;&amp; !PageSwapCache(p) &amp;&amp; p-&gt;mapping =3D=3D NULL) {
:                 action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_TRUNCATED_LRU, MF_IGNORED);
:                 res =3D -EBUSY;
:                 goto out;
:         }
:
: So I think it's OK to keep "if (WARN_ON(PageLRU(page)))" block in
: current version of your patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181206120135.14079-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.com&gt;
Debugged-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b15c87263a69272423771118c653e9a1d0672caa upstream.

We have received a bug report that an injected MCE about faulty memory
prevents memory offline to succeed on 4.4 base kernel.  The underlying
reason was that the HWPoison page has an elevated reference count and the
migration keeps failing.  There are two problems with that.  First of all
it is dubious to migrate the poisoned page because we know that accessing
that memory is possible to fail.  Secondly it doesn't make any sense to
migrate a potentially broken content and preserve the memory corruption
over to a new location.

Oscar has found out that 4.4 and the current upstream kernels behave
slightly differently with his simply testcase

===

int main(void)
{
        int ret;
        int i;
        int fd;
        char *array = malloc(4096);
        char *array_locked = malloc(4096);

        fd = open("/tmp/data", O_RDONLY);
        read(fd, array, 4095);

        for (i = 0; i &lt; 4096; i++)
                array_locked[i] = 'd';

        ret = mlock((void *)PAGE_ALIGN((unsigned long)array_locked), sizeof(array_locked));
        if (ret)
                perror("mlock");

        sleep (20);

        ret = madvise((void *)PAGE_ALIGN((unsigned long)array_locked), 4096, MADV_HWPOISON);
        if (ret)
                perror("madvise");

        for (i = 0; i &lt; 4096; i++)
                array_locked[i] = 'd';

        return 0;
}
===

+ offline this memory.

In 4.4 kernels he saw the hwpoisoned page to be returned back to the LRU
list
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81019ac9&gt;] dump_trace+0x59/0x340
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81019e9a&gt;] show_stack_log_lvl+0xea/0x170
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8101ac71&gt;] show_stack+0x21/0x40
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8132bb90&gt;] dump_stack+0x5c/0x7c
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff810815a1&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xb0
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff811a275c&gt;] __pagevec_lru_add_fn+0x14c/0x160
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff811a2eed&gt;] pagevec_lru_move_fn+0xad/0x100
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff811a334c&gt;] __lru_cache_add+0x6c/0xb0
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81195236&gt;] add_to_page_cache_lru+0x46/0x70
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffffa02b4373&gt;] extent_readpages+0xc3/0x1a0 [btrfs]
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff811a16d7&gt;] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x177/0x200
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff811a18c8&gt;] ondemand_readahead+0x168/0x2a0
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8119673f&gt;] generic_file_read_iter+0x41f/0x660
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8120e50d&gt;] __vfs_read+0xcd/0x140
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8120e9ea&gt;] vfs_read+0x7a/0x120
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8121404b&gt;] kernel_read+0x3b/0x50
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81215c80&gt;] do_execveat_common.isra.29+0x490/0x6f0
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81215f08&gt;] do_execve+0x28/0x30
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff81095ddb&gt;] call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0xfb/0x130
kernel:  [&lt;ffffffff8161c045&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x55/0x80

And that latter confuses the hotremove path because an LRU page is
attempted to be migrated and that fails due to an elevated reference
count.  It is quite possible that the reuse of the HWPoisoned page is some
kind of fixed race condition but I am not really sure about that.

With the upstream kernel the failure is slightly different.  The page
doesn't seem to have LRU bit set but isolate_movable_page simply fails and
do_migrate_range simply puts all the isolated pages back to LRU and
therefore no progress is made and scan_movable_pages finds same set of
pages over and over again.

Fix both cases by explicitly checking HWPoisoned pages before we even try
to get reference on the page, try to unmap it if it is still mapped.  As
explained by Naoya:

: Hwpoison code never unmapped those for no big reason because
: Ksm pages never dominate memory, so we simply didn't have strong
: motivation to save the pages.

Also put WARN_ON(PageLRU) in case there is a race and we can hit LRU
HWPoison pages which shouldn't happen but I couldn't convince myself about
that.  Naoya has noted the following:

: Theoretically no such gurantee, because try_to_unmap() doesn't have a
: guarantee of success and then memory_failure() returns immediately
: when hwpoison_user_mappings fails.
: Or the following code (comes after hwpoison_user_mappings block) also impli=
: es
: that the target page can still have PageLRU flag.
:
:         /*
:          * Torn down by someone else?
:          */
:         if (PageLRU(p) &amp;&amp; !PageSwapCache(p) &amp;&amp; p-&gt;mapping =3D=3D NULL) {
:                 action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_TRUNCATED_LRU, MF_IGNORED);
:                 res =3D -EBUSY;
:                 goto out;
:         }
:
: So I think it's OK to keep "if (WARN_ON(PageLRU(page)))" block in
: current version of your patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181206120135.14079-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.com&gt;
Debugged-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>base/memory, hotplug: fix a kernel oops in show_valid_zones()</title>
<updated>2017-02-09T07:02:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshi Kani</name>
<email>toshi.kani@hpe.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-03T21:13:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=87ebcc534d47dd924327daa651c36f876db76f72'/>
<id>87ebcc534d47dd924327daa651c36f876db76f72</id>
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commit a96dfddbcc04336bbed50dc2b24823e45e09e80c upstream.

Reading a sysfs "memoryN/valid_zones" file leads to the following oops
when the first page of a range is not backed by struct page.
show_valid_zones() assumes that 'start_pfn' is always valid for
page_zone().

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea017a000000
 IP: show_valid_zones+0x6f/0x160

This issue may happen on x86-64 systems with 64GiB or more memory since
their memory block size is bumped up to 2GiB.  [1] An example of such
systems is desribed below.  0x3240000000 is only aligned by 1GiB and
this memory block starts from 0x3200000000, which is not backed by
struct page.

 BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000003240000000-0x000000603fffffff] usable

Since test_pages_in_a_zone() already checks holes, fix this issue by
extending this function to return 'valid_start' and 'valid_end' for a
given range.  show_valid_zones() then proceeds with the valid range.

[1] 'Commit bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on
    large-memory x86-64 systems")'

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127222149.30893-3-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Zhang Zhen &lt;zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Reza Arbab &lt;arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a96dfddbcc04336bbed50dc2b24823e45e09e80c upstream.

Reading a sysfs "memoryN/valid_zones" file leads to the following oops
when the first page of a range is not backed by struct page.
show_valid_zones() assumes that 'start_pfn' is always valid for
page_zone().

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea017a000000
 IP: show_valid_zones+0x6f/0x160

This issue may happen on x86-64 systems with 64GiB or more memory since
their memory block size is bumped up to 2GiB.  [1] An example of such
systems is desribed below.  0x3240000000 is only aligned by 1GiB and
this memory block starts from 0x3200000000, which is not backed by
struct page.

 BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000003240000000-0x000000603fffffff] usable

Since test_pages_in_a_zone() already checks holes, fix this issue by
extending this function to return 'valid_start' and 'valid_end' for a
given range.  show_valid_zones() then proceeds with the valid range.

[1] 'Commit bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on
    large-memory x86-64 systems")'

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127222149.30893-3-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Zhang Zhen &lt;zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Reza Arbab &lt;arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/memory_hotplug.c: check start_pfn in test_pages_in_a_zone()</title>
<updated>2017-02-09T07:02:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshi Kani</name>
<email>toshi.kani@hpe.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-03T21:13:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e86a8769579e945828d834964d09477e9b2e7d0e'/>
<id>e86a8769579e945828d834964d09477e9b2e7d0e</id>
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commit deb88a2a19e85842d79ba96b05031739ec327ff4 upstream.

Patch series "fix a kernel oops when reading sysfs valid_zones", v2.

A sysfs memory file is created for each 2GiB memory block on x86-64 when
the system has 64GiB or more memory.  [1] When the start address of a
memory block is not backed by struct page, i.e.  a memory range is not
aligned by 2GiB, reading its 'valid_zones' attribute file leads to a
kernel oops.  This issue was observed on multiple x86-64 systems with
more than 64GiB of memory.  This patch-set fixes this issue.

Patch 1 first fixes an issue in test_pages_in_a_zone(), which does not
test the start section.

Patch 2 then fixes the kernel oops by extending test_pages_in_a_zone()
to return valid [start, end).

Note for stable kernels: The memory block size change was made by commit
bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on large-memory x86-64
systems"), which was accepted to 3.9.  However, this patch-set depends
on (and fixes) the change to test_pages_in_a_zone() made by commit
5f0f2887f4de ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: check for missing sections in
test_pages_in_a_zone()"), which was accepted to 4.4.

So, I recommend that we backport it up to 4.4.

[1] 'Commit bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on
    large-memory x86-64 systems")'

This patch (of 2):

test_pages_in_a_zone() does not check 'start_pfn' when it is aligned by
section since 'sec_end_pfn' is set equal to 'pfn'.  Since this function
is called for testing the range of a sysfs memory file, 'start_pfn' is
always aligned by section.

Fix it by properly setting 'sec_end_pfn' to the next section pfn.

Also make sure that this function returns 1 only when the range belongs
to a zone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127222149.30893-2-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Banman &lt;abanman@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Reza Arbab &lt;arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit deb88a2a19e85842d79ba96b05031739ec327ff4 upstream.

Patch series "fix a kernel oops when reading sysfs valid_zones", v2.

A sysfs memory file is created for each 2GiB memory block on x86-64 when
the system has 64GiB or more memory.  [1] When the start address of a
memory block is not backed by struct page, i.e.  a memory range is not
aligned by 2GiB, reading its 'valid_zones' attribute file leads to a
kernel oops.  This issue was observed on multiple x86-64 systems with
more than 64GiB of memory.  This patch-set fixes this issue.

Patch 1 first fixes an issue in test_pages_in_a_zone(), which does not
test the start section.

Patch 2 then fixes the kernel oops by extending test_pages_in_a_zone()
to return valid [start, end).

Note for stable kernels: The memory block size change was made by commit
bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on large-memory x86-64
systems"), which was accepted to 3.9.  However, this patch-set depends
on (and fixes) the change to test_pages_in_a_zone() made by commit
5f0f2887f4de ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: check for missing sections in
test_pages_in_a_zone()"), which was accepted to 4.4.

So, I recommend that we backport it up to 4.4.

[1] 'Commit bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on
    large-memory x86-64 systems")'

This patch (of 2):

test_pages_in_a_zone() does not check 'start_pfn' when it is aligned by
section since 'sec_end_pfn' is set equal to 'pfn'.  Since this function
is called for testing the range of a sysfs memory file, 'start_pfn' is
always aligned by section.

Fix it by properly setting 'sec_end_pfn' to the next section pfn.

Also make sure that this function returns 1 only when the range belongs
to a zone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127222149.30893-2-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Banman &lt;abanman@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Reza Arbab &lt;arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/memory_hotplug.c: check for missing sections in test_pages_in_a_zone()</title>
<updated>2015-12-30T01:45:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Banman</name>
<email>abanman@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-29T22:54:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5f0f2887f4de9508dcf438deab28f1de8070c271'/>
<id>5f0f2887f4de9508dcf438deab28f1de8070c271</id>
<content type='text'>
test_pages_in_a_zone() does not account for the possibility of missing
sections in the given pfn range.  pfn_valid_within always returns 1 when
CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is not set, allowing invalid pfns from missing
sections to pass the test, leading to a kernel oops.

Wrap an additional pfn loop with PAGES_PER_SECTION granularity to check
for missing sections before proceeding into the zone-check code.

This also prevents a crash from offlining memory devices with missing
sections.  Despite this, it may be a good idea to keep the related patch
'[PATCH 3/3] drivers: memory: prohibit offlining of memory blocks with
missing sections' because missing sections in a memory block may lead to
other problems not covered by the scope of this fix.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Banman &lt;abanman@sgi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Russ Anderson &lt;rja@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Seth Jennings &lt;sjennings@variantweb.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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test_pages_in_a_zone() does not account for the possibility of missing
sections in the given pfn range.  pfn_valid_within always returns 1 when
CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is not set, allowing invalid pfns from missing
sections to pass the test, leading to a kernel oops.

Wrap an additional pfn loop with PAGES_PER_SECTION granularity to check
for missing sections before proceeding into the zone-check code.

This also prevents a crash from offlining memory devices with missing
sections.  Despite this, it may be a good idea to keep the related patch
'[PATCH 3/3] drivers: memory: prohibit offlining of memory blocks with
missing sections' because missing sections in a memory block may lead to
other problems not covered by the scope of this fix.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Banman &lt;abanman@sgi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Russ Anderson &lt;rja@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Seth Jennings &lt;sjennings@variantweb.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/page_alloc: remove unused parameter in init_currently_empty_zone()</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yaowei Bai</name>
<email>bywxiaobai@163.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T02:47:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b171e4093017d4d6e411f5e97823e5e4a21266a2'/>
<id>b171e4093017d4d6e411f5e97823e5e4a21266a2</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit a2f3aa025766 ("[PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell") fixed an oops
experienced on the Cell architecture when init-time functions,
early_*(), are called at runtime by introducing an 'enum memmap_context'
parameter to memmap_init_zone() and init_currently_empty_zone().  This
parameter is intended to be used to tell whether the call of these two
functions is being made on behalf of a hotplug event, or happening at
boot-time.  However, init_currently_empty_zone() does not use this
parameter at all, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai &lt;bywxiaobai@163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit a2f3aa025766 ("[PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell") fixed an oops
experienced on the Cell architecture when init-time functions,
early_*(), are called at runtime by introducing an 'enum memmap_context'
parameter to memmap_init_zone() and init_currently_empty_zone().  This
parameter is intended to be used to tell whether the call of these two
functions is being made on behalf of a hotplug event, or happening at
boot-time.  However, init_currently_empty_zone() does not use this
parameter at all, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai &lt;bywxiaobai@163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: memory hotplug with an existing resource</title>
<updated>2015-10-23T13:19:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T15:35:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=62cedb9f135794ec26a93ae29e5f0231ab263c84'/>
<id>62cedb9f135794ec26a93ae29e5f0231ab263c84</id>
<content type='text'>
Add add_memory_resource() to add memory using an existing "System RAM"
resource.  This is useful if the memory region is being located by
finding a free resource slot with allocate_resource().

Xen guests will make use of this in their balloon driver to hotplug
arbitrary amounts of memory in response to toolstack requests.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
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Add add_memory_resource() to add memory using an existing "System RAM"
resource.  This is useful if the memory region is being located by
finding a free resource slot with allocate_resource().

Xen guests will make use of this in their balloon driver to hotplug
arbitrary amounts of memory in response to toolstack requests.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T21:35:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T21:35:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=12f03ee606914317e7e6a0815e53a48205c31dae'/>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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<entry>
<title>memory-hotplug: add hot-added memory ranges to memblock before allocate node_data for a node.</title>
<updated>2015-09-04T23:54:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tang Chen</name>
<email>tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-04T22:42:32+00:00</published>
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Commit f9126ab9241f ("memory-hotplug: fix wrong edge when hot add a new
node") hot-added memory range to memblock, after creating pgdat for new
node.

But there is a problem:

  add_memory()
  |--&gt; hotadd_new_pgdat()
       |--&gt; free_area_init_node()
            |--&gt; get_pfn_range_for_nid()
                 |--&gt; find start_pfn and end_pfn in memblock
  |--&gt; ......
  |--&gt; memblock_add_node(start, size, nid)    --------    Here, just too late.

get_pfn_range_for_nid() will find that start_pfn and end_pfn are both 0.
As a result, when adding memory, dmesg will give the following wrong
message.

  Initmem setup node 5 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff]
  On node 5 totalpages: 0
  Built 5 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 32588823
  Policy zone: Normal
  init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x60000000000-0x607ffffffff]

The solution is simple, just add the memory range to memblock a little
earlier, before hotadd_new_pgdat().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Taku Izumi &lt;izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.2.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Commit f9126ab9241f ("memory-hotplug: fix wrong edge when hot add a new
node") hot-added memory range to memblock, after creating pgdat for new
node.

But there is a problem:

  add_memory()
  |--&gt; hotadd_new_pgdat()
       |--&gt; free_area_init_node()
            |--&gt; get_pfn_range_for_nid()
                 |--&gt; find start_pfn and end_pfn in memblock
  |--&gt; ......
  |--&gt; memblock_add_node(start, size, nid)    --------    Here, just too late.

get_pfn_range_for_nid() will find that start_pfn and end_pfn are both 0.
As a result, when adding memory, dmesg will give the following wrong
message.

  Initmem setup node 5 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff]
  On node 5 totalpages: 0
  Built 5 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 32588823
  Policy zone: Normal
  init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x60000000000-0x607ffffffff]

The solution is simple, just add the memory range to memblock a little
earlier, before hotadd_new_pgdat().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Taku Izumi &lt;izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.2.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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