Define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK and arch_sync_kernel_mappings() to ensure
page tables are properly synchronized when calling p*d_populate_kernel().
For 5-level paging, synchronization is performed via
pgd_populate_kernel(). In 4-level paging, pgd_populate() is a no-op, so
synchronization is instead performed at the P4D level via
p4d_populate_kernel().
This fixes intermittent boot failures on systems using 4-level paging and
a large amount of persistent memory:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address:
ffffe70000000034
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:__init_single_page+0x9/0x6d
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__init_zone_device_page+0x17/0x5d
memmap_init_zone_device+0x154/0x1bb
pagemap_range+0x2e0/0x40f
memremap_pages+0x10b/0x2f0
devm_memremap_pages+0x1e/0x60
dev_dax_probe+0xce/0x2ec [device_dax]
dax_bus_probe+0x6d/0xc9
[... snip ...]
</TASK>
It also fixes a crash in vmemmap_set_pmd() caused by accessing vmemmap
before sync_global_pgds() [1]:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address:
ffffeb3ff1200000
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
Tainted: [W]=WARN
RIP: 0010:vmemmap_set_pmd+0xff/0x230
<TASK>
vmemmap_populate_hugepages+0x176/0x180
vmemmap_populate+0x34/0x80
__populate_section_memmap+0x41/0x90
sparse_add_section+0x121/0x3e0
__add_pages+0xba/0x150
add_pages+0x1d/0x70
memremap_pages+0x3dc/0x810
devm_memremap_pages+0x1c/0x60
xe_devm_add+0x8b/0x100 [xe]
xe_tile_init_noalloc+0x6a/0x70 [xe]
xe_device_probe+0x48c/0x740 [xe]
[... snip ...]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818020206.4517-4-harry.yoo@oracle.com
Fixes:
8d400913c231 ("x86/vmemmap: handle unpopulated sub-pmd ranges")
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/
20250311114420.240341-1-gwan-gyeong.mun@intel.com [1]
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: bibo mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
#define pgtable_l5_enabled() cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_LA57)
#endif /* USE_EARLY_PGTABLE_L5 */
+#define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK \
+ (pgtable_l5_enabled() ? PGTBL_PGD_MODIFIED : PGTBL_P4D_MODIFIED)
+
extern unsigned int pgdir_shift;
extern unsigned int ptrs_per_p4d;
sync_global_pgds_l4(start, end);
}
+/*
+ * Make kernel mappings visible in all page tables in the system.
+ * This is necessary except when the init task populates kernel mappings
+ * during the boot process. In that case, all processes originating from
+ * the init task copies the kernel mappings, so there is no issue.
+ * Otherwise, missing synchronization could lead to kernel crashes due
+ * to missing page table entries for certain kernel mappings.
+ *
+ * Synchronization is performed at the top level, which is the PGD in
+ * 5-level paging systems. But in 4-level paging systems, however,
+ * pgd_populate() is a no-op, so synchronization is done at the P4D level.
+ * sync_global_pgds() handles this difference between paging levels.
+ */
+void arch_sync_kernel_mappings(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+ sync_global_pgds(start, end);
+}
+
/*
* NOTE: This function is marked __ref because it calls __init function
* (alloc_bootmem_pages). It's safe to do it ONLY when after_bootmem == 0.