The changelog for commit 6a6dccba2f ("mm: cma: don't replace lowmem
pages with highmem") mentioned that lowmem pages can be replaced by
highmem pages during CMA migration. 6a6dccba2f fixed that issue.
Quote from that changelog:
: The filesystem layer expects pages in the block device's mapping to not
: be in highmem (the mapping's gfp mask is set in bdget()), but CMA can
: currently replace lowmem pages with highmem pages, leading to crashes in
: filesystem code such as the one below:
:
: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000400
: pgd = c0c98000
: [00000400] *pgd=00c91831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
: Internal error: Oops: 817 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
: CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.5.0-rc5+ #80)
: PC is at __memzero+0x24/0x80
: ...
: Process fsstress (pid: 323, stack limit = 0xc0cbc2f0)
: Backtrace:
: [<c010e3f0>] (ext4_getblk+0x0/0x180) from [<c010e58c>] (ext4_bread+0x1c/0x98)
: [<c010e570>] (ext4_bread+0x0/0x98) from [<c0117944>] (ext4_mkdir+0x160/0x3bc)
: r4:c15337f0
: [<c01177e4>] (ext4_mkdir+0x0/0x3bc) from [<c00c29e0>] (vfs_mkdir+0x8c/0x98)
: [<c00c2954>] (vfs_mkdir+0x0/0x98) from [<c00c2a60>] (sys_mkdirat+0x74/0xac)
: r6:00000000 r5:c152eb40 r4:000001ff r3:c14b43f0
: [<c00c29ec>] (sys_mkdirat+0x0/0xac) from [<c00c2ab8>] (sys_mkdir+0x20/0x24)
: r6:beccdcf0 r5:00074000 r4:beccdbbc
: [<c00c2a98>] (sys_mkdir+0x0/0x24) from [<c000e3c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)
Memory-hotplug has same problem as CMA has so the same fix can be applied
to memory-hotplug as well.
Fix it by reusing.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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