Re: [PATCH] memcgroup: check and initialize page->cgroup in memmap_init_zone

From: Shi Weihua
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 23:50:31 EST


Balbir Singh wrote::
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:46:30 +0800 Shi Weihua <shiwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> When we test memory controller in Fujitsu PrimeQuest(arch: ia64),
>>> the compiled kernel boots failed, the following message occured on
>>> the telnet terminal.
>>> -------------------------------------
>>> ..........
>>> ELILO boot: Uncompressing Linux... done
>>> Loading file initrd-2.6.25-rc9-00067-gb87e81e.img...done
>>> _ (system freezed)
>>> -------------------------------------
>>>
>>> We found commit 9442ec9df40d952b0de185ae5638a74970388e01
>>> causes this boot failure by git-bisect.
>>> And, we found the following change caused the boot failure.
>>> -------------------------------------
>>> @@ -2528,7 +2535,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zon
>>> set_page_links(page, zone, nid, pfn);
>>> init_page_count(page);
>>> reset_page_mapcount(page);
>>> - page_assign_page_cgroup(page, NULL);
>>> SetPageReserved(page);
>>>
>>> /*
>>> -------------------------------------
>>> In this patch, the Author Hugh Dickins said
>>> "...memmap_init_zone doesn't need it either, ...
>>> Linux assumes pointers in zeroed structures are NULL pointers."
>
>
>
>>> But it seems it's not always the case, so we should check and initialize
>>> page->cgroup anyways.
>>>
>
> The comment from Hugh is correct, which implies that in this case page->cgroup
> is not zeroed.
>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua <shiwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> index 402a504..506d4cf 100644
>>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> @@ -2518,6 +2518,7 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
>>> struct page *page;
>>> unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + size;
>>> unsigned long pfn;
>>> + void *pc;
>>>
>>> for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
>>> /*
>>> @@ -2535,6 +2536,9 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
>>> set_page_links(page, zone, nid, pfn);
>>> init_page_count(page);
>>> reset_page_mapcount(page);
>>> + pc = page_get_page_cgroup(page);
>>> + if (pc)
>>> + page_reset_bad_cgroup(page);
>>> SetPageReserved(page);
>>>
>> hm, fishy. Perhaps the architecture isn't zeroing the memmap arrays?
>>
>
> The mem_map array should be cleared. I need to see the code to check where the
> clearing takes place.
>
>> Or perhaps that page was used and then later freed before we got to
>> memmap_init_zone() and was freed with a non-zero ->page_cgroup. Which is
>> unlikely given that page.page_cgroup was only just added and is only
>> present if CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR.
>
> Please share your .config? Is this a kexec/kdump reboot by any chance?
>

.config is shared in previous mails.
kexec/kdump has not been used.

Thanks
-Shi

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