While playing with gigantic hugepages and memory_hotplug, I triggered the following #PF when "cat memoryX/removable": BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 #PF error: [normal kernel read fault] PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 1 PID: 1481 Comm: cat Tainted: G E 4.20.0-rc6-mm1-1-default+ #18 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:has_unmovable_pages+0x154/0x210 Call Trace: is_mem_section_removable+0x7d/0x100 removable_show+0x90/0xb0 dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x50 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xca/0x1b0 seq_read+0x133/0x380 __vfs_read+0x26/0x180 vfs_read+0x89/0x140 ksys_read+0x42/0x90 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x180 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 The reason is we do not pass the Head to page_hstate(), and so, the call to compound_order() in page_hstate() returns 0, so we end up checking all hstates's size to match PAGE_SIZE. Obviously, we do not find any hstate matching that size, and we return NULL. Then, we dereference that NULL pointer in hugepage_migration_supported() and we got the #PF from above. Fix that by getting the head page before calling page_hstate(). Also, since gigantic pages span several pageblocks, re-adjust the logic for skipping pages. While are it, we can also get rid of the round_up(). [osalvador@suse.de: remove round_up(), adjust skip pages logic per Michal] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181221062809.31771-1-osalvador@suse.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181217225113.17864-1-osalvador@suse.de Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.