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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2009-01-06 14:40:09 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-06 15:59:07 -0800
commit22b31eec63e5f2e219a3ee15f456897272bc73e8 (patch)
tree906e4975a0e2cdef15ef071b4890e3b28e36cf39 /mm/page_alloc.c
parent3dc147414ccad81dc33edb80774b1fed12a38c08 (diff)
downloadlinux-22b31eec63e5f2e219a3ee15f456897272bc73e8.tar.bz2
badpage: vm_normal_page use print_bad_pte
print_bad_pte() is so far being called only when zap_pte_range() finds negative page_mapcount, or there's a fault on a pte_file where it does not belong. That's weak coverage when we suspect pagetable corruption. Originally, it was called when vm_normal_page() found an invalid pfn: but pfn_valid is expensive on some architectures and configurations, so 2.6.24 put that under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM (which doesn't help in the field), then 2.6.26 replaced it by a VM_BUG_ON (likewise). Reinstate the print_bad_pte() in vm_normal_page(), but use a cheaper test than pfn_valid(): memmap_init_zone() (used in bootup and hotplug) keep a __read_mostly note of the highest_memmap_pfn, vm_normal_page() then check pfn against that. We could call this pfn_plausible() or pfn_sane(), but I doubt we'll need it elsewhere: of course it's not reliable, but gives much stronger pagetable validation on many boxes. Also use print_bad_pte() when the pte_special bit is found outside a VM_PFNMAP or VM_MIXEDMAP area, instead of VM_BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3acb216e9a78..755c99a0ac71 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_states);
unsigned long totalram_pages __read_mostly;
unsigned long totalreserve_pages __read_mostly;
+unsigned long highest_memmap_pfn __read_mostly;
int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE
@@ -2597,6 +2598,9 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
unsigned long pfn;
struct zone *z;
+ if (highest_memmap_pfn < end_pfn - 1)
+ highest_memmap_pfn = end_pfn - 1;
+
z = &NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones[zone];
for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
/*