11:05 a.m.
Hello Atsushi,
I've recently had a couple 4.5-era vmcores issues reported to me as crash bugs
because they generate numerous initialization-time errors of the type:
crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: ffff880075459000 type:
"fill_task_struct"
Initially I thought it was related to this crash-7.1.4 fix that you posted:
Fix for the handling of dynamically-sized task_struct structures in
Linux 4.2 and later kernels, which contain these commits:
commit 5aaeb5c01c5b6c0be7b7aadbf3ace9f3a4458c3d
x86/fpu, sched: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT and
use it on x86
commit 0c8c0f03e3a292e031596484275c14cf39c0ab7a
x86/fpu, sched: Dynamically allocate 'struct fpu'
Without the patch, when running on a filtered kdump dumpfile, it is
possible that error messages like this will be seen when gathering
the tasks running on a system: "crash: page excluded: kernel virtual
address: <task_struct address> type: "fill_task_struct".
(ats-kumagai(a)wm.jp.nec.com)
But upon further investigation of a suspect vmcore, there are many other
"page excluded" errors for several other data structure types. Joe Lawrence
of Stratus did some kernel-bisecting, and narrowed it down to this recent
4.5 commit:
commit 1c290f642101e64f379e38ea0361d097c08e824d
Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov(a)linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri Jan 15 16:52:07 2016 -0800
mm: sanitize page->mapping for tail pages
We don't define meaning of page->mapping for tail pages. Currently it's
always NULL, which can be inconsistent with head page and potentially
lead to problems.
Let's poison the pointer to catch all illigal uses.
page_rmapping(), page_mapping() and page_anon_vma() are changed to look
on head page.
The only illegal use I've caught so far is __GPF_COMP pages from sound
subsystem, mapped with PTEs. do_shared_fault() is changed to use
page_rmapping() instead of direct access to fault_page->mapping.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov(a)linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse(a)redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange(a)redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd(a)google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen(a)intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman(a)suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka(a)suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl(a)linux.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi(a)ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper(a)linaro.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes(a)cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko(a)suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan(a)redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org>
And related to the above, and the one that affects makedumpfile, is this one:
commit 822cdd1152265d87fcfc974e06c3b68f762987fd
Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov(a)linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri Jan 15 16:52:03 2016 -0800
page-flags: look at head page if the flag is encoded in page->mapping
PageAnon() and PageKsm() look at lower bits of page->mapping to check if
the page is Anon or KSM. page->mapping can be overloaded in tail pages.
Let's always look at head page to avoid false-positives.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov(a)linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange(a)redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd(a)google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen(a)intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman(a)suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka(a)suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl(a)linux.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi(a)ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper(a)linaro.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes(a)cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko(a)suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan(a)redhat.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse(a)redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 818fa39..190f191 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static inline int PageCompound(struct page *page)
#define PF_NO_TAIL(page, enforce) ({ \
VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(enforce && PageTail(page), page); \
compound_head(page);})
-#define PF_NO_COMPOUND(page, enforce) ({ \
+#define PF_NO_COMPOUND(page, enforce) ({ \
VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(enforce && PageCompound(page), page); \
page;})
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ PAGEFLAG(Idle, idle, PF_ANY)
static inline int PageAnon(struct page *page)
{
+ page = compound_head(page);
return ((unsigned long)page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON) != 0;
}
@@ -393,6 +394,7 @@ static inline int PageAnon(struct page *page)
*/
static inline int PageKsm(struct page *page)
{
+ page = compound_head(page);
return ((unsigned long)page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS) ==
(PAGE_MAPPING_ANON | PAGE_MAPPING_KSM);
}
Note that PAGE_MAPPING_ANON is now only set in the compound_head page,
so when makedumpfile walks though the pages, it will have to look
at each page's head page for the bit setting.
As it is now, makedumpfile runs amok filtering pages that still have
stuff left in page->mapping. For example, all of the addresses in
my "filtered.list" input file are those of legitimate kernel data
structures that have been incorrectly filtered because PAGE_MAPPING_ANON
(bit 1) has been left set:
crash> kmem -p < filtered.list
PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS
ffffea0011b29040 46ca41000 dead0000ffffffff 0 0 3ffff800000000
PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS
ffffea0011b29040 46ca41000 dead0000ffffffff 0 0 3ffff800000000
PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS
ffffea0011b29640 46ca59000 dead0000ffffffff 0 0 3ffff800000000
PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS
ffffea0011b29640 46ca59000 dead0000ffffffff 0 0 3ffff800000000
PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS
ffffea0001d51640 75459000 dead0000ffffffff 0 0 1ffff800000000
...
In earlier kernels, the page->mapping fields above would not have
their PAGE_MAPPING_ANON set.
Dave