Re: [PATCH 4/4] memblock: stop poisoning raw allocations

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Tue Aug 03 2021 - 03:58:51 EST


On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 10:13:04AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-07-14 at 15:37 +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Functions memblock_alloc_exact_nid_raw() and memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw()
> > are intended for early memory allocation without overhead of zeroing the
> > allocated memory. Since these functions were used to allocate the memory
> > map, they have ended up with addition of a call to page_init_poison() that
> > poisoned the allocated memory when CONFIG_PAGE_POISON was set.
> >
> > Since the memory map is allocated using a dedicated memmep_alloc() function
> > that takes care of the poisoning, remove page poisoning from the
> > memblock_alloc_*_raw() functions.
> []
> > diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> []
> > @@ -1490,18 +1490,12 @@ void * __init memblock_alloc_exact_nid_raw(
> >   phys_addr_t min_addr, phys_addr_t max_addr,
> >   int nid)
> >  {
> > - void *ptr;
> > -
> >   memblock_dbg("%s: %llu bytes align=0x%llx nid=%d from=%pa max_addr=%pa %pS\n",
> >   __func__, (u64)size, (u64)align, nid, &min_addr,
> >   &max_addr, (void *)_RET_IP_);
>
> unassociated trivia:
>
> casting _RET_IP_ back to void * seems odd as the define is
> include/linux/kernel.h:#define _RET_IP_ (unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0)
>
> It's probably easier to understand as just __builtin_return_address(0)

Maybe, but I'm not sure it's worth the churn.

> > @@ -1528,18 +1522,12 @@ void * __init memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(
> >   phys_addr_t min_addr, phys_addr_t max_addr,
> >   int nid)
> >  {
> > - void *ptr;
> > -
> >   memblock_dbg("%s: %llu bytes align=0x%llx nid=%d from=%pa max_addr=%pa %pS\n",
> >   __func__, (u64)size, (u64)align, nid, &min_addr,
> >   &max_addr, (void *)_RET_IP_);
>
> here too
>

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Sincerely yours,
Mike.