From: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 9/9] mm/page_alloc: check pageblock pfns under span seqlock
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:46:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261027-pgalloc-ai-hotfixes-v1-9-9c7d1aca801e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261027-pgalloc-ai-hotfixes-v1-0-9c7d1aca801e@kernel.org>
From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Whenever the flags of a pageblock are read or written, a kernel with
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM makes sure that the pfn lies within the zone of the page.
Unlike bad_range(), that check reads zone->zone_start_pfn and
zone->spanned_pages without zone->span_seqlock.
Memory hotplug changes the two fields one after the other. If the lower
end of a zone moves, the zone seems to end before its last pages in
between. A page of that part which is freed at that moment, on another
CPU, ends in
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!zone_spans_pfn(page_zone(page), pfn))
kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:372!
free_unref_folios+0x55e/0xed0
folios_put_refs+0x2b5/0x530
Read the span in a read section of the seqlock.
Fixes: 86051ca5eaf5 ("mm: fix usemap initialization")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 8f8885165045..f7bb0d59efc8 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -357,6 +357,21 @@ static __always_inline bool is_standalone_pb_bit(enum pageblock_bits pb_bit)
return pb_bit >= PB_compact_skip && pb_bit < __NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS;
}
+/* Memory hotplug can resize the zone while we look at its span */
+static bool __maybe_unused zone_spans_pfn_stable(struct zone *zone,
+ unsigned long pfn)
+{
+ unsigned int seq;
+ bool ret;
+
+ do {
+ seq = zone_span_seqbegin(zone);
+ ret = zone_spans_pfn(zone, pfn);
+ } while (zone_span_seqretry(zone, seq));
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
static __always_inline void
get_pfnblock_bitmap_bitidx(const struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
unsigned long **bitmap_word, unsigned long *bitidx)
@@ -370,7 +385,7 @@ get_pfnblock_bitmap_bitidx(const struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
BUILD_BUG_ON(NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS != 4);
#endif
BUILD_BUG_ON(__MIGRATE_TYPE_END > PAGEBLOCK_MIGRATETYPE_MASK);
- VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!zone_spans_pfn(page_zone(page), pfn), page);
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!zone_spans_pfn_stable(page_zone(page), pfn), page);
bitmap = get_pageblock_bitmap(page, pfn);
*bitidx = pfn_to_bitidx(page, pfn);
--
2.56.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-27 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-27 15:46 [PATCH 0/9] mm, page_alloc: several stable fixes Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm/page_alloc: don't undo a racing start_isolate_page_range() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:48 ` Zi Yan
2026-10-27 18:31 ` Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 2/9] mm/page_alloc: clear ->private of deferred free pages Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 18:38 ` Zi Yan
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 3/9] mm: page_frag: refill the cache for large fragments Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 4/9] mm/page_alloc: keep the pagesets of an empty zone Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 5/9] mm, page_alloc: pass zone pointer to trace_reclaim_retry_zone Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 18:35 ` Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 18:39 ` Zi Yan
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 6/9] mm/compaction: trust zone->contiguous only in the span Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 7/9] mm: page_isolation: do not take slab pages for free Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 21:04 ` Zi Yan
2026-10-27 15:46 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm/memory_hotplug: resize zones under their seqlock Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 15:46 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) [this message]
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