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memory-hotplug, mm/sparse.c: clear the memory to store struct page
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If sparse memory vmemmap is enabled, we can't free the memory to store
struct page when a memory device is hotremoved, because we may store
struct page in the memory to manage the memory which doesn't belong to
this memory device.  When we hotadded this memory device again, we will
reuse this memory to store struct page, and struct page may contain some
obsolete information, and we will get bad-page state:

  init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x80000000-0x9fffffff]
  Built 2 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 547617
  Policy zone: Normal
  BUG: Bad page state in process bash  pfn:9b6dc
  page:ffffea0002200020 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0xfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfd
  page flags: 0x2fdfdfdfd5df9fd(locked|referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|active|slab|owner_priv_1|private|private_2|writeback|head|tail|swapcache|reclaim|swapbacked|unevictable|uncached|compound_lock)
  Modules linked in: netconsole acpiphp pci_hotplug acpi_memhotplug loop kvm_amd kvm microcode tpm_tis tpm tpm_bios evdev psmouse serio_raw i2c_piix4 i2c_core parport_pc parport processor button thermal_sys ext3 jbd mbcache sg sr_mod cdrom ata_generic virtio_net ata_piix virtio_blk libata virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio scsi_mod
  Pid: 988, comm: bash Not tainted 3.6.0-rc7-guest #12
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff810e9b30>] ? bad_page+0xb0/0x100
   [<ffffffff810ea4c3>] ? free_pages_prepare+0xb3/0x100
   [<ffffffff810ea668>] ? free_hot_cold_page+0x48/0x1a0
   [<ffffffff8112cc08>] ? online_pages_range+0x68/0xa0
   [<ffffffff8112cba0>] ? __online_page_increment_counters+0x10/0x10
   [<ffffffff81045561>] ? walk_system_ram_range+0x101/0x110
   [<ffffffff814c4f95>] ? online_pages+0x1a5/0x2b0
   [<ffffffff8135663d>] ? __memory_block_change_state+0x20d/0x270
   [<ffffffff81356756>] ? store_mem_state+0xb6/0xf0
   [<ffffffff8119e482>] ? sysfs_write_file+0xd2/0x160
   [<ffffffff8113769a>] ? vfs_write+0xaa/0x160
   [<ffffffff81137977>] ? sys_write+0x47/0x90
   [<ffffffff814e2f25>] ? async_page_fault+0x25/0x30
   [<ffffffff814ea239>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

This patch clears the memory to store struct page to avoid unexpected error.

Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Vasilis Liaskovitis <vasilis.liaskovitis@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wen Congyang authored and Linus Torvalds committed Dec 12, 2012
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion mm/sparse.c
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Expand Up @@ -638,7 +638,6 @@ static struct page *__kmalloc_section_memmap(unsigned long nr_pages)
got_map_page:
ret = (struct page *)pfn_to_kaddr(page_to_pfn(page));
got_map_ptr:
memset(ret, 0, memmap_size);

return ret;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -758,6 +757,8 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_one_section(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
goto out;
}

memset(memmap, 0, sizeof(struct page) * nr_pages);

ms->section_mem_map |= SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT;

ret = sparse_init_one_section(ms, section_nr, memmap, usemap);
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