[PATCH v4 07/12] mm: enable lazy_mmu sections to nest
David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
davidhildenbrandkernel at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 02:30:27 PST 2025
> So without in_lazy_mmu_mode() check above the arch-specific set_pte()
> implementation enters a wrong branch, which ends up in:
>
> [ 394.503134] Call Trace:
> [ 394.503137] [<00007fffe01333f4>] dump_stack_lvl+0xbc/0xf0
> [ 394.503143] [<00007fffe010298c>] vpanic+0x1cc/0x418
> [ 394.503149] [<00007fffe0102c7a>] panic+0xa2/0xa8
> [ 394.503154] [<00007fffe01e7a8a>] check_panic_on_warn+0x8a/0xb0
> [ 394.503160] [<00007fffe082d122>] end_report+0x72/0x110
> [ 394.503166] [<00007fffe082d3e6>] kasan_report+0xc6/0x100
> [ 394.503171] [<00007fffe01b9556>] ipte_batch_ptep_get+0x146/0x150
> [ 394.503176] [<00007fffe0830096>] kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte+0xe6/0x1e0
> [ 394.503183] [<00007fffe0718050>] apply_to_pte_range+0x1a0/0x570
> [ 394.503189] [<00007fffe07260fa>] __apply_to_page_range+0x3ca/0x8f0
> [ 394.503195] [<00007fffe0726648>] apply_to_page_range+0x28/0x40
> [ 394.503201] [<00007fffe082fe34>] __kasan_populate_vmalloc+0x324/0x340
> [ 394.503207] [<00007fffe076954e>] alloc_vmap_area+0x31e/0xbf0
> [ 394.503213] [<00007fffe0770106>] __get_vm_area_node+0x1a6/0x2d0
> [ 394.503218] [<00007fffe07716fa>] __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0xba/0x260
> [ 394.503224] [<00007fffe0771970>] __vmalloc_node_noprof+0xd0/0x110
> [ 394.503229] [<00007fffe0771a22>] vmalloc_noprof+0x32/0x40
> [ 394.503234] [<00007fff604eaa42>] full_fit_alloc_test+0xb2/0x3e0 [test_vmalloc]
> [ 394.503241] [<00007fff604eb478>] test_func+0x488/0x760 [test_vmalloc]
> [ 394.503247] [<00007fffe025ad68>] kthread+0x368/0x630
> [ 394.503253] [<00007fffe01391e0>] __ret_from_fork+0xd0/0x490
> [ 394.503259] [<00007fffe24e468a>] ret_from_fork+0xa/0x30
>
> I could have cached lazy_mmu_state::active as arch-specific data
> and check it, but then what is the point to have it generalized?
Do you mean we should set ->active before calling into the arch
callback? We could do that I think.
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