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    mm: Always release pages to the buddy allocator in memblock_free_late(). · 115d9d77
    Aaron Thompson authored
    If CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is enabled, memblock_free_pages()
    only releases pages to the buddy allocator if they are not in the
    deferred range. This is correct for free pages (as defined by
    for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone()) because free pages in the
    deferred range will be initialized and released as part of the deferred
    init process. memblock_free_pages() is called by memblock_free_late(),
    which is used to free reserved ranges after memblock_free_all() has
    run. All pages in reserved ranges have been initialized at that point,
    and accordingly, those pages are not touched by the deferred init
    process. This means that currently, if the pages that
    memblock_free_late() intends to release are in the deferred range, they
    will never be released to the buddy allocator. They will forever be
    reserved.
    
    In addition, memblock_free_pages() calls kmsan_memblock_free_pages(),
    which is also correct for free pages but is not correct for reserved
    pages. KMSAN metadata for reserved pages is initialized by
    kmsan_init_shadow(), which runs shortly before memblock_free_all().
    
    For both of these reasons, memblock_free_pages() should only be called
    for free pages, and memblock_free_late() should call __free_pages_core()
    directly instead.
    
    One case where this issue can occur in the wild is EFI boot on
    x86_64. The x86 EFI code reserves all EFI boot services memory ranges
    via memblock_reserve() and frees them later via memblock_free_late()
    (efi_reserve_boot_services() and efi_free_boot_services(),
    respectively). If any of those ranges happens to fall within the
    deferred init range, the pages will not be released and that memory will
    be unavailable.
    
    For example, on an Amazon EC2 t3.micro VM (1 GB) booting via EFI:
    
    v6.2-rc2:
      # grep -E 'Node|spanned|present|managed' /proc/zoneinfo
      Node 0, zone      DMA
              spanned  4095
              present  3999
              managed  3840
      Node 0, zone    DMA32
              spanned  246652
              present  245868
              managed  178867
    
    v6.2-rc2 + patch:
      # grep -E 'Node|spanned|present|managed' /proc/zoneinfo
      Node 0, zone      DMA
              spanned  4095
              present  3999
              managed  3840
      Node 0, zone    DMA32
              spanned  246652
              present  245868
              managed  222816   # +43,949 pages
    
    Fixes: 3a80a7fa ("mm: meminit: initialise a subset of struct pages if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAaron Thompson <dev@aaront.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/01010185892de53e-e379acfb-7044-4b24-b30a-e2657c1ba989-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.comSigned-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
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