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Juergen Gross bb7645c338 mm, page_alloc: fix build_zonerefs_node() 
commit e553f62f10 upstream.

Since commit 6aa303defb ("mm, vmscan: only allocate and reclaim from
zones with pages managed by the buddy allocator") only zones with free
memory are included in a built zonelist.  This is problematic when e.g.
all memory of a zone has been ballooned out when zonelists are being
rebuilt.

The decision whether to rebuild the zonelists when onlining new memory
is done based on populated_zone() returning 0 for the zone the memory
will be added to.  The new zone is added to the zonelists only, if it
has free memory pages (managed_zone() returns a non-zero value) after
the memory has been onlined.  This implies, that onlining memory will
always free the added pages to the allocator immediately, but this is
not true in all cases: when e.g. running as a Xen guest the onlined new
memory will be added only to the ballooned memory list, it will be freed
only when the guest is being ballooned up afterwards.

Another problem with using managed_zone() for the decision whether a
zone is being added to the zonelists is, that a zone with all memory
used will in fact be removed from all zonelists in case the zonelists
happen to be rebuilt.

Use populated_zone() when building a zonelist as it has been done before
that commit.

There was a report that QubesOS (based on Xen) is hitting this problem.
Xen has switched to use the zone device functionality in kernel 5.9 and
QubesOS wants to use memory hotplugging for guests in order to be able
to start a guest with minimal memory and expand it as needed.  This was
the report leading to the patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220407120637.9035-1-jgross@suse.com
Fixes: 6aa303defb ("mm, vmscan: only allocate and reclaim from zones with pages managed by the buddy allocator")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-04-20 09:34:18 +02:00
arch arm64: alternatives: mark patch_alternative() as noinstr 2022-04-20 09:34:16 +02:00
block block: fix offset/size check in bio_trim() 2022-04-20 09:34:14 +02:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto crypto: xts - Add softdep on ecb 2022-04-08 14:23:55 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: qcom,ipa: add optional qcom,qmp property 2022-04-20 09:34:04 +02:00
drivers perf/imx_ddr: Fix undefined behavior due to shift overflowing the constant 2022-04-20 09:34:18 +02:00
fs io_uring: use nospec annotation for more indexes 2022-04-20 09:34:17 +02:00
include tlb: hugetlb: Add more sizes to tlb_remove_huge_tlb_entry 2022-04-20 09:34:16 +02:00
init init/main.c: return 1 from handled __setup() functions 2022-04-13 20:59:10 +02:00
ipc ipc/sem: do not sleep with a spin lock held 2022-02-08 18:34:03 +01:00
kernel stacktrace: move filter_irq_stacks() to kernel/stacktrace.c 2022-04-13 20:59:28 +02:00
lib stacktrace: move filter_irq_stacks() to kernel/stacktrace.c 2022-04-13 20:59:28 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm, page_alloc: fix build_zonerefs_node() 2022-04-20 09:34:18 +02:00
net nfc: nci: add flush_workqueue to prevent uaf 2022-04-20 09:34:13 +02:00
samples samples/bpf, xdpsock: Fix race when running for fix duration of time 2022-04-08 14:23:40 +02:00
scripts ubsan: remove CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE 2022-04-13 20:59:27 +02:00
security Fix incorrect type in assignment of ipv6 port for audit 2022-04-08 14:23:55 +02:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Limit max buffer and period sizes per time 2022-04-20 09:34:13 +02:00
tools perf tools: Fix misleading add event PMU debug message 2022-04-20 09:34:13 +02:00
usr usr/include/Makefile: add linux/nfc.h to the compile-test coverage 2022-02-01 17:27:15 +01:00
virt KVM: avoid NULL pointer dereference in kvm_dirty_ring_push 2022-04-13 20:59:26 +02:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Daniel Drake to credits 2021-09-21 08:34:58 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: adjust file entry for of_net.c after movement 2022-03-08 19:12:53 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.15.34 2022-04-13 20:59:28 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.