Commit f7f99100d8 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in
vmemmap") broke Xen pv domains in some configurations, as the "Pinned"
information in struct page of early page tables could get lost.
This will lead to the kernel trying to write directly into the page
tables instead of asking the hypervisor to do so. The result is a crash
like the following:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8801ead19008
IP: xen_set_pud+0x4e/0xd0
PGD 1c0a067 P4D 1c0a067 PUD 23a0067 PMD 1e9de0067 PTE 80100001ead19065
Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.14.0-default+ #271
Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E6440/0159N7, BIOS A07 06/26/2014
task: ffffffff81c10480 task.stack: ffffffff81c00000
RIP: e030:xen_set_pud+0x4e/0xd0
Call Trace:
__pmd_alloc+0x128/0x140
ioremap_page_range+0x3f4/0x410
__ioremap_caller+0x1c3/0x2e0
acpi_os_map_iomem+0x175/0x1b0
acpi_tb_acquire_table+0x39/0x66
acpi_tb_validate_table+0x44/0x7c
acpi_tb_verify_temp_table+0x45/0x304
acpi_reallocate_root_table+0x12d/0x141
acpi_early_init+0x4d/0x10a
start_kernel+0x3eb/0x4a1
xen_start_kernel+0x528/0x532
Code: 48 01 e8 48 0f 42 15 a2 fd be 00 48 01 d0 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 ea ff ff 48 c1 e8 0c 48 c1 e0 06 48 01 d0 48 8b 00 f6 c4 02 75 5d <4c> 89 65 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 65 8b 05 52 9f fe 7e 89 c0 48 0f a3
RIP: xen_set_pud+0x4e/0xd0 RSP: ffffffff81c03cd8
CR2: ffff8801ead19008
---[ end trace 38eca2e56f1b642e ]---
Avoid this problem by not deferring struct page initialization when
running as Xen pv guest.
Pavel said:
: This is unique for Xen, so this particular issue won't effect other
: configurations. I am going to investigate if there is a way to
: re-enable deferred page initialization on xen guests.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explicitly include xen.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180216154101.22865-1-jgross@suse.com
Fixes: f7f99100d8 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.15.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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