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    arm64/mm: Fix pfn_valid() for ZONE_DEVICE based memory · eeb0753b
    Anshuman Khandual authored
    pfn_valid() validates a pfn but basically it checks for a valid struct page
    backing for that pfn. It should always return positive for memory ranges
    backed with struct page mapping. But currently pfn_valid() fails for all
    ZONE_DEVICE based memory types even though they have struct page mapping.
    
    pfn_valid() asserts that there is a memblock entry for a given pfn without
    MEMBLOCK_NOMAP flag being set. The problem with ZONE_DEVICE based memory is
    that they do not have memblock entries. Hence memblock_is_map_memory() will
    invariably fail via memblock_search() for a ZONE_DEVICE based address. This
    eventually fails pfn_valid() which is wrong. memblock_is_map_memory() needs
    to be skipped for such memory ranges. As ZONE_DEVICE memory gets hotplugged
    into the system via memremap_pages() called from a driver, their respective
    memory sections will not have SECTION_IS_EARLY set.
    
    Normal hotplug memory will never have MEMBLOCK_NOMAP set in their memblock
    regions. Because the flag MEMBLOCK_NOMAP was specifically designed and set
    for firmware reserved memory regions. memblock_is_map_memory() can just be
    skipped as its always going to be positive and that will be an optimization
    for the normal hotplug memory. Like ZONE_DEVICE based memory, all normal
    hotplugged memory too will not have SECTION_IS_EARLY set for their sections
    
    Skipping memblock_is_map_memory() for all non early memory sections would
    fix pfn_valid() problem for ZONE_DEVICE based memory and also improve its
    performance for normal hotplug memory as well.
    
    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
    Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
    Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Fixes: 73b20c84 ("arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1614921898-4099-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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