[PATCH v2 0/3] memblock, arm: fixes for freeing of the memory map

[Kefeng Wang]

On 2021/5/19 22:14, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The coordination between freeing of unused memory map, pfn_valid() and core
> mm assumptions about validity of the memory map in various ranges was not
> designed for complex layouts of the physical memory with a lot of holes all
> over the place.
> 
> Kefen Wang reported crashes in move_freepages() on a system with the
> following memory layout:
> 
>    node   0: [mem 0x0000000080a00000-0x00000000855fffff]
>    node   0: [mem 0x0000000086a00000-0x0000000087dfffff]
>    node   0: [mem 0x000000008bd00000-0x000000008c4fffff]
>    node   0: [mem 0x000000008e300000-0x000000008ecfffff]
>    node   0: [mem 0x0000000090d00000-0x00000000bfffffff]
>    node   0: [mem 0x00000000cc000000-0x00000000dc9fffff]
>    node   0: [mem 0x00000000de700000-0x00000000de9fffff]
>    node   0: [mem 0x00000000e0800000-0x00000000e0bfffff]
>    node   0: [mem 0x00000000f4b00000-0x00000000f6ffffff]
>    node   0: [mem 0x00000000fda00000-0x00000000ffffefff]
> 
> The crashes can be mitigated by enabling CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE and
> essentially turning pfn_valid_within() to pfn_valid() instead of having it
> hardwired to 1.
> 
> Alternatively, we can update ARM's implementation of pfn_valid() to take
> into accounting rounding of the freed memory map to pageblock boundaries
> and make sure it returns true for PFNs that have memory map entries even if
> there is no physical memory.
> 
> I can take the entire series via memblock tree.
> 
> @Kefen, I didn't add your Tested-by yet because the patch is slightly
> different from the version you've tested.

Backport this version(also with link[2]) and oom test could pass too.

> 
> v2:
> * Use single memblock_overlaps_region() instead of several
> memblock_is_map_memory() lookups. This makes this series depend on update
> of MEMBLOCK_NOMAP handling in the memory map [2]
> 
> v1: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210518090613.21519-1-rppt@kernel.org
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2a1592ad-bc9d-4664-fd19-f7448a37edc0@huawei.com
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210511100550.28178-1-rppt@kernel.org
> 
> Mike Rapoport (3):
>    memblock: free_unused_memmap: use pageblock units instead of MAX_ORDER
>    memblock: align freed memory map on pageblock boundaries with SPARSEMEM
>    arm: extend pfn_valid to take into accound freed memory map alignment
> 
>   arch/arm/mm/init.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
>   mm/memblock.c      | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
>   2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: d07f6ca923ea0927a1024dfccafc5b53b61cfecc
>