mm: enforce pageblock_order < MAX_ORDER
authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 04:31:17 +0000 (15:31 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 04:31:17 +0000 (15:31 +1100)
commit2a034a7529c30785c81e672e1af5f8aabafe6932
treeffa4bbe76f4a4963df16a55d7d08420f75589b27
parentf7242481486b005f28940a5b9baa3aada53b634a
mm: enforce pageblock_order < MAX_ORDER

Some places in the kernel don't really expect pageblock_order >=
MAX_ORDER, and it looks like this is only possible in corner cases:

1) CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT we'll end up freeing pageblock_order
   pages via __free_pages_core(), which cannot possibly work.

2) find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes() will roundup the ZONE_MOVABLE
   start PFN to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES. Consequently with a bigger
   pageblock_order, we could have a single pageblock partially managed by
   two zones.

3) compaction code runs into __fragmentation_index() with order
   >= MAX_ORDER, when checking WARN_ON_ONCE(order >= MAX_ORDER). [1]

4) mm/page_reporting.c won't be reporting any pages with default
   page_reporting_order == pageblock_order, as we'll be skipping the
   reporting loop inside page_reporting_process_zone().

5) __rmqueue_fallback() will never be able to steal with
   ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT.

pageblock_order >= MAX_ORDER is weird either way: it's a pure optimization
for making alloc_contig_range(), as used for allcoation of gigantic pages,
a little more reliable to succeed.  However, if there is demand for
somewhat reliable allocation of gigantic pages, affected setups should be
using CMA or boottime allocations instead.

So let's make sure that pageblock_order < MAX_ORDER and simplify.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r189a2ks.fsf@linux.ibm.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220214174132.219303-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: John Garry via iommu <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c
include/linux/cma.h
include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
mm/Kconfig
mm/page_alloc.c