linux/mm
Mel Gorman e80d6a2482 [ARM] Skip memory holes in FLATMEM when reading /proc/pagetypeinfo
Ordinarily, memory holes in flatmem still have a valid memmap and is safe
to use. However, an architecture (ARM) frees up the memmap backing memory
holes on the assumption it is never used. /proc/pagetypeinfo reads the
whole range of pages in a zone believing that the memmap is valid and that
pfn_valid will return false if it is not. On ARM, freeing the memmap breaks
the page->zone linkages even though pfn_valid() returns true and the kernel
can oops shortly afterwards due to accessing a bogus struct zone *.

This patch lets architectures say when FLATMEM can have holes in the
memmap. Rather than an expensive check for valid memory, /proc/pagetypeinfo
will confirm that the page linkages are still valid by checking page->zone
is still the expected zone. The lookup of page_zone is safe as there is a
limited range of memory that is accessed when calling page_zone.  Even if
page_zone happens to return the correct zone, the impact is that the counters
in /proc/pagetypeinfo are slightly off but fragmentation monitoring is
unlikely to be relevant on an embedded system.

Reported-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-27 20:09:28 +01:00
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allocpercpu.c mm/allocpercpu.c: make 4 functions static 2008-07-26 12:00:12 -07:00
backing-dev.c
bootmem.c bootmem: fix aligning of node-relative indexes and offsets 2008-08-20 15:40:31 -07:00
bounce.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
filemap_xip.c mm: xip/ext2 fix block allocation race 2008-08-20 15:40:32 -07:00
filemap.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
fremap.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
highmem.c
hugetlb.c allocate structures for reservation tracking in hugetlbfs outside of spinlocks v2 2008-08-12 16:07:28 -07:00
internal.h
Kconfig mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL it 2008-08-12 17:52:53 +10:00
maccess.c
madvise.c madvise: update function comment of madvise_dontneed 2008-07-30 09:41:45 -07:00
Makefile mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: fix oops in mem_cgroup_shrink_usage 2008-08-12 16:07:28 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c
memory.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
mempolicy.c do_migrate_pages(): remove unused variable 2008-08-12 16:07:29 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
mincore.c
mlock.c mlock() fix return values 2008-08-04 16:58:45 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'core/locking' into core/urgent 2008-08-12 00:11:49 +02:00
mmu_notifier.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mremap.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
msync.c
nommu.c nommu: Provide vmalloc_exec(). 2008-08-04 16:01:47 +09:00
oom_kill.c security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable() 2008-08-14 22:59:43 +10:00
page_alloc.c page allocator: use no-panic variant of alloc_bootmem() in alloc_large_system_hash() 2008-08-12 16:07:27 -07:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c mm: spinlock tree_lock 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
pagewalk.c
pdflush.c
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: readahead scan lockless 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
rmap.c mm: dirty page tracking race fix 2008-08-20 15:40:32 -07:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype 2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00
shmem.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
slab.c mm: unexport ksize 2008-07-29 23:44:26 +03:00
slob.c mm: unexport ksize 2008-07-29 23:44:26 +03:00
slub.c SLUB: dynamic per-cache MIN_PARTIAL 2008-08-05 09:28:47 +03:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c mm/sparse.c: removed duplicated include 2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: show free swap as signed 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
swap.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c
truncate.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
util.c mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL it 2008-08-12 17:52:53 +10:00
vmalloc.c Use WARN() in mm/vmalloc.c 2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
vmstat.c [ARM] Skip memory holes in FLATMEM when reading /proc/pagetypeinfo 2008-08-27 20:09:28 +01:00