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Michal Hocko 9b2e022c79 Revert "mm, memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory section"
commit 4aa9fc2a43 upstream.

This reverts commit 2830bf6f05.

The underlying assumption that one sparse section belongs into a single
numa node doesn't hold really. Robert Shteynfeld has reported a boot
failure. The boot log was not captured but his memory layout is as
follows:

  Early memory node ranges
    node   1: [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000090fff]
    node   1: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000dbdf8fff]
    node   1: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x0000001423ffffff]
    node   0: [mem 0x0000001424000000-0x0000002023ffffff]

This means that node0 starts in the middle of a memory section which is
also in node1.  memmap_init_zone tries to initialize padding of a
section even when it is outside of the given pfn range because there are
code paths (e.g.  memory hotplug) which assume that the full worth of
memory section is always initialized.

In this particular case, though, such a range is already intialized and
most likely already managed by the page allocator.  Scribbling over
those pages corrupts the internal state and likely blows up when any of
those pages gets used.

Reported-by: Robert Shteynfeld <robert.shteynfeld@gmail.com>
Fixes: 2830bf6f05 ("mm, memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory section")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2019-01-31 08:15:45 +01:00
arch x86/entry/64/compat: Fix stack switching for XEN PV 2019-01-31 08:15:42 +01:00
block block: use rcu_work instead of call_rcu to avoid sleep in softirq 2019-01-22 21:09:57 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: ecc - regularize scalar for scalar multiplication 2019-01-26 09:20:41 +01:00
Documentation mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc/<pid>/smaps 2019-01-26 09:20:51 +01:00
drivers vmbus: fix subchannel removal 2019-01-31 08:15:45 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs smb3: add credits we receive from oplock/break PDUs 2019-01-31 08:15:40 +01:00
include Drivers: hv: vmbus: Remove the useless API vmbus_get_outgoing_channel() 2019-01-31 08:15:45 +01:00
init kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 2019-01-22 21:09:54 +01:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel bpf: fix inner map masking to prevent oob under speculation 2019-01-31 08:15:45 +01:00
lib fix int_sqrt64() for very large numbers 2019-01-22 21:09:55 +01:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm Revert "mm, memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory section" 2019-01-31 08:15:45 +01:00
net can: bcm: check timer values before ktime conversion 2019-01-31 08:15:43 +01:00
samples samples: bpf: fix: error handling regarding kprobe_events 2019-01-26 09:20:42 +01:00
scripts kconfig: fix memory leak when EOF is encountered in quotation 2019-01-26 09:20:46 +01:00
security selinux: always allow mounting submounts 2019-01-26 09:20:42 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda - Add mute LED support for HP ProBook 470 G5 2019-01-31 08:15:38 +01:00
tools x86/selftests/pkeys: Fork() to check for state being preserved 2019-01-31 08:15:42 +01:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Fix off-by-one bug in vgic_get_irq() 2019-01-09 17:46:04 +01:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: Update email for Punit Agrawal 2018-11-05 10:02:11 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update entry for MMP platform 2018-12-03 12:39:57 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-12-21 14:21:17 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.20.5 2019-01-26 09:20:52 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.