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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] arm64/mm: fix incorrect file_map_count for invalid pmd/pud
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On 16.11.22 09:38, Liu Shixin wrote:
> The page table check trigger BUG_ON() unexpectedly when split hugepage:
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at mm/page_table_check.c:119!
> Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
> Dumping ftrace buffer:
> (ftrace buffer empty)
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 7 PID: 210 Comm: transhuge-stres Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3+ #748
> Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> pc : page_table_check_set.isra.0+0x398/0x468
> lr : page_table_check_set.isra.0+0x1c0/0x468
> [...]
> Call trace:
> page_table_check_set.isra.0+0x398/0x468
> __page_table_check_pte_set+0x160/0x1c0
> __split_huge_pmd_locked+0x900/0x1648
> __split_huge_pmd+0x28c/0x3b8
> unmap_page_range+0x428/0x858
> unmap_single_vma+0xf4/0x1c8
> zap_page_range+0x2b0/0x410
> madvise_vma_behavior+0xc44/0xe78
> do_madvise+0x280/0x698
> __arm64_sys_madvise+0x90/0xe8
> invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0xdc/0x1d8
> do_el0_svc+0xf4/0x3f8
> el0_svc+0x58/0x120
> el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
> el0t_64_sync+0x19c/0x1a0
> [...]
>
> On arm64, pmd_present() will return true even if the pmd is invalid.

I assume that's because of the pmd_present_invalid() check.

... I wonder why that behavior was chosen. Sounds error-prone to me.

Fix LGHTM, but I am not an arm64 pgtable expert.

--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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