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From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
	aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com, joao.m.martins@oracle.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/6] mm/sparse-vmemmap: Fix missing architecture-specific page table sync
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:14:11 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260415111412.1003526-6-songmuchun@bytedance.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260415111412.1003526-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com>

On x86-64, vmemmap_populate() normally calls sync_global_pgds() to
keep the page tables in sync. However, when vmemmap optimization for
compound devmaps is enabled, vmemmap_populate_compound_pages() is called
directly from __populate_section_memmap(), bypassing the architecture-
specific vmemmap_populate() entirely. This skips the sync on x86-64
and can later trigger vmemmap-access faults.

Fix this by moving the vmemmap_can_optimize() dispatch from
__populate_section_memmap() into the generic helpers --
vmemmap_populate_basepages() and vmemmap_populate_hugepages(). This way,
the architecture vmemmap_populate() is always invoked first, ensuring
any arch-specific post-population steps (e.g. sync_global_pgds()) are
executed before returning.

Architectures that override vmemmap_populate() (e.g. powerpc) handle
the optimization dispatch in their own implementation instead.

Fixes: 4917f55b4ef9 ("mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h |  6 ------
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c   | 16 ++++++++++-----
 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c                        | 24 +++++++++++-----------
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h
index bde07c6f900f..2600defa2dc2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h
@@ -357,11 +357,5 @@ int radix__remove_section_mapping(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 #define vmemmap_can_optimize vmemmap_can_optimize
 bool vmemmap_can_optimize(struct vmem_altmap *altmap, struct dev_pagemap *pgmap);
 #endif
-
-#define vmemmap_populate_compound_pages vmemmap_populate_compound_pages
-int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
-					      unsigned long start,
-					      unsigned long end, int node,
-					      struct dev_pagemap *pgmap);
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
index 568500343e5f..21fece355fbb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c
@@ -1109,7 +1109,10 @@ static inline pte_t *vmemmap_pte_alloc(pmd_t *pmdp, int node,
 	return pte_offset_kernel(pmdp, address);
 }
 
-
+static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
+						    unsigned long start,
+						    unsigned long end, int node,
+						    struct dev_pagemap *pgmap);
 
 int __meminit radix__vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
 				      struct vmem_altmap *altmap, struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
@@ -1122,6 +1125,9 @@ int __meminit radix__vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, in
 	pmd_t *pmd;
 	pte_t *pte;
 
+	if (vmemmap_can_optimize(altmap, pgmap))
+		return vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(page_to_pfn((struct page *)start),
+						       start, end, node, pgmap);
 	/*
 	 * If altmap is present, Make sure we align the start vmemmap addr
 	 * to PAGE_SIZE so that we calculate the correct start_pfn in
@@ -1303,10 +1309,10 @@ static pte_t * __meminit vmemmap_compound_tail_page(unsigned long addr,
 	return pte;
 }
 
-int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
-					      unsigned long start,
-					      unsigned long end, int node,
-					      struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
+static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
+						     unsigned long start,
+						     unsigned long end, int node,
+						     struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
 {
 	/*
 	 * we want to map things as base page size mapping so that
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index f5245647afee..7f684ed3479e 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -296,10 +296,16 @@ static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_range(unsigned long start,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start,
+						     unsigned long end, int node,
+						     struct dev_pagemap *pgmap);
+
 int __meminit vmemmap_populate_basepages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 					 int node, struct vmem_altmap *altmap,
 					 struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
 {
+	if (vmemmap_can_optimize(altmap, pgmap))
+		return vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(start, end, node, pgmap);
 	return vmemmap_populate_range(start, end, node, altmap, -1, 0);
 }
 
@@ -411,6 +417,9 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate_hugepages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 	pud_t *pud;
 	pmd_t *pmd;
 
+	if (vmemmap_can_optimize(altmap, pgmap))
+		return vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(start, end, node, pgmap);
+
 	for (addr = start; addr < end; addr = next) {
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
 
@@ -453,7 +462,6 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate_hugepages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#ifndef vmemmap_populate_compound_pages
 /*
  * For compound pages bigger than section size (e.g. x86 1G compound
  * pages with 2M subsection size) fill the rest of sections as tail
@@ -491,14 +499,14 @@ static pte_t * __meminit compound_section_tail_page(unsigned long addr)
 	return pte;
 }
 
-static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
-						     unsigned long start,
+static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start,
 						     unsigned long end, int node,
 						     struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
 {
 	unsigned long size, addr;
 	pte_t *pte;
 	int rc;
+	unsigned long start_pfn = page_to_pfn((struct page *)start);
 
 	if (reuse_compound_section(start_pfn, pgmap)) {
 		pte = compound_section_tail_page(start);
@@ -544,26 +552,18 @@ static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#endif
-
 struct page * __meminit __populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
 		unsigned long nr_pages, int nid, struct vmem_altmap *altmap,
 		struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
 {
 	unsigned long start = (unsigned long) pfn_to_page(pfn);
 	unsigned long end = start + nr_pages * sizeof(struct page);
-	int r;
 
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED(pfn, PAGES_PER_SUBSECTION) ||
 		!IS_ALIGNED(nr_pages, PAGES_PER_SUBSECTION)))
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (vmemmap_can_optimize(altmap, pgmap))
-		r = vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(pfn, start, end, nid, pgmap);
-	else
-		r = vmemmap_populate(start, end, nid, altmap, pgmap);
-
-	if (r < 0)
+	if (vmemmap_populate(start, end, nid, altmap, pgmap))
 		return NULL;
 
 	return pfn_to_page(pfn);
-- 
2.20.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-15 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-15 11:14 [PATCH v2 0/6] mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and initialization Muchun Song
2026-04-15 11:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] mm/sparse-vmemmap: Fix vmemmap accounting underflow Muchun Song
2026-04-15 11:26   ` Muchun Song
2026-04-15 15:53   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-15 11:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] mm/sparse-vmemmap: Pass @pgmap argument to memory deactivation paths Muchun Song
2026-04-15 15:55   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-15 11:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] mm/sparse-vmemmap: Fix DAX vmemmap accounting with optimization Muchun Song
2026-04-15 15:58   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-15 11:14 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] mm/sparse-vmemmap: Pass @pgmap argument to arch vmemmap_populate() Muchun Song
2026-04-15 12:13   ` Joao Martins
2026-04-15 12:21     ` Muchun Song
2026-04-15 11:14 ` Muchun Song [this message]
2026-04-15 11:14 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] mm/mm_init: Fix pageblock migratetype for ZONE_DEVICE compound pages Muchun Song

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