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Commit 475a4307 authored by Anshuman Khandual's avatar Anshuman Khandual Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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arm64/mm: Fix pfn_valid() for ZONE_DEVICE based memory

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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.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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