From: "Gupta, Pankaj" <pankaj.gupta@amd.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/cma: accept memory of multi-range CMA areas
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 15:55:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c88652a-0b0a-4092-9c4e-d4db8f89bd74@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <auM56dTOXCb70vzz@kernel.org>
>>> On systems with unaccepted memory, memblock allocations accept the
>>> allocated range, but when cma_declare_contiguous_multi() uses open coded
>>> allocation of multiple ranges, it reserves them with memblock_reserve()
>>> and they are never accepted.
>>>
>>> These pages are released to the buddy allocator by cma_activate_area()
>>> with __free_pages() that does not check for unaccepted memory, so the
>>> first access to such a page in a TDX or SEV-SNP guest is fatal.
>>>
>>> Accept the memory of each range when it is reserved.
>> Fix looks correct to me.
>>
>> Any easy way to reproduce and test on SEV SNP?
> I think running a VM with 16G or ram on a single node and with
>
> hugetlb_cma=8G memmap=2M\$0x2ffe00000 init_on_free=1
This triggered an unrelated issue for me, I sent a fix here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261102113127.161823-1-pankaj.gupta@amd.com/
I was able to verify this series with:
hugetlb_cma=8G cma=2G@0x200000000 init_on_free=1
Thanks,
Pankaj
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-02 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-29 10:18 [PATCH 0/2] mm/cma: accept memory of CMA areas reserved with memblock_reserve() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-10-29 10:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/cma: accept memory of multi-range CMA areas Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-10-29 10:52 ` Gupta, Pankaj
2026-10-29 12:19 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-11-02 14:55 ` Gupta, Pankaj [this message]
2026-10-29 10:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/cma: accept memory of CMA areas reserved at a fixed address Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-10-29 12:27 ` [PATCH 0/2] mm/cma: accept memory of CMA areas reserved with memblock_reserve() Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-10-29 12:40 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-10-29 13:17 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-10-29 15:03 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-10-29 15:39 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-11-02 14:41 ` Gupta, Pankaj
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