2013-03-01 06:44:05

by Simon Jeons

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a kernel address v2

On 02/13/2013 07:02 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Andrew or Ingo, please pick up.
>
> Changelog since v1
> o Add reviewed-bys and acked-bys
>
> A user reported a bug whereby a backup process accessing /proc/kcore
> caused an oops.
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbb00ff33b000
> IP: [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
> PGD 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> CPU 6
> Modules linked in: af_packet nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc 8021q garp stp llc cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf microcode fuse nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod ioatdma ipv6 ipv6_lib igb dca i7core_edac edac_core i2c_i801 i2c_core cdc_ether usbnet bnx2 mii iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp rtc_cmos pci_hotplug tpm_tis sg tpm pcspkr tpm_bios serio_raw button ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore sd_mod crc_t10dif usb_common processor thermal_sys hwmon scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh ata_generic ata_piix libata megaraid_sas scsi_mod
>
> Pid: 16196, comm: Hibackp Not tainted 3.0.13-0.27-default #1 IBM System x3550 M3 -[7944 K3G]-/94Y7614
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8103157e>] [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
> RSP: 0018:ffff88094165fe80 EFLAGS: 00010246
> RAX: 00003300ff33b000 RBX: ffff880100000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: 0000000100000000 RSI: ffff880000000000 RDI: ff32b300ff33b400
> RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 00003ffffffff000 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: 22302e31223d6e6f R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
> R13: 0000000000003000 R14: 0000000000571be0 R15: ffff88094165ff50
> FS: 00007ff152d33700(0000) GS:ffff88097f2c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: ffffbb00ff33b000 CR3: 00000009405a3000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> Process Hibackp (pid: 16196, threadinfo ffff88094165e000, task ffff8808eb9ba600)
> Stack:
> ffffffff811b8aaa 0000000000004000 ffff880943fea480 ffff8808ef2bae50
> ffff880943d32980 fffffffffffffffb ffff8808ef2bae40 ffff88094165ff50
> 0000000000004000 000000000056ebe0 ffffffff811ad847 000000000056ebe0
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff811b8aaa>] read_kcore+0x17a/0x370
> [<ffffffff811ad847>] proc_reg_read+0x77/0xc0
> [<ffffffff81151687>] vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
> [<ffffffff811517f3>] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
> [<ffffffff81449692>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>
> Investigation determined that the bug triggered when reading system RAM
> at the 4G mark. On this system, that was the first address using 1G pages

Do you mean there is one page which is 1G?

> for the virt->phys direct mapping so the PUD is pointing to a physical
> address, not a PMD page. The problem is that the page table walker in
> kern_addr_valid() is not checking pud_large() and treats the physical
> address as if it was a PMD. If it happens to look like pmd_none then it'll
> silently fail, probably returning zeros instead of real data. If the data
> happens to look like a present PMD though, it will be walked resulting in
> the oops above. This patch adds the necessary pud_large() check.
>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 +++++
> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index 5199db2..1c1a955 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ static inline unsigned long pmd_pfn(pmd_t pmd)
> return (pmd_val(pmd) & PTE_PFN_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> }
>
> +static inline unsigned long pud_pfn(pud_t pud)
> +{
> + return (pud_val(pud) & PTE_PFN_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +}
> +
> #define pte_page(pte) pfn_to_page(pte_pfn(pte))
>
> static inline int pmd_large(pmd_t pte)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> index 2ead3c8..75c9a6a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -831,6 +831,9 @@ int kern_addr_valid(unsigned long addr)
> if (pud_none(*pud))
> return 0;
>
> + if (pud_large(*pud))
> + return pfn_valid(pud_pfn(*pud));
> +
> pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
> if (pmd_none(*pmd))
> return 0;
>
> --
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2013-03-01 09:17:25

by Chen, Gong

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a kernel address v2

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 02:43:53PM +0800, Simon Jeons wrote:
> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:43:53 +0800
> From: Simon Jeons <[email protected]>
> To: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>, Andrew Morton
> <[email protected]>, [email protected],
> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a
> kernel address v2
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221
> Thunderbird/17.0.3
>
> On 02/13/2013 07:02 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >Andrew or Ingo, please pick up.
> >
> >Changelog since v1
> > o Add reviewed-bys and acked-bys
> >
> >A user reported a bug whereby a backup process accessing /proc/kcore
> >caused an oops.
> >
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbb00ff33b000
> > IP: [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
> > PGD 0
> > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> > CPU 6
> > Modules linked in: af_packet nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc 8021q garp stp llc cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf microcode fuse nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod ioatdma ipv6 ipv6_lib igb dca i7core_edac edac_core i2c_i801 i2c_core cdc_ether usbnet bnx2 mii iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp rtc_cmos pci_hotplug tpm_tis sg tpm pcspkr tpm_bios serio_raw button ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore sd_mod crc_t10dif usb_common processor thermal_sys hwmon scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh ata_generic ata_piix libata megaraid_sas scsi_mod
> >
> > Pid: 16196, comm: Hibackp Not tainted 3.0.13-0.27-default #1 IBM System x3550 M3 -[7944 K3G]-/94Y7614
> > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8103157e>] [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
> > RSP: 0018:ffff88094165fe80 EFLAGS: 00010246
> > RAX: 00003300ff33b000 RBX: ffff880100000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
> > RDX: 0000000100000000 RSI: ffff880000000000 RDI: ff32b300ff33b400
> > RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 00003ffffffff000 R09: 0000000000000000
> > R10: 22302e31223d6e6f R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
> > R13: 0000000000003000 R14: 0000000000571be0 R15: ffff88094165ff50
> > FS: 00007ff152d33700(0000) GS:ffff88097f2c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> > CR2: ffffbb00ff33b000 CR3: 00000009405a3000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > Process Hibackp (pid: 16196, threadinfo ffff88094165e000, task ffff8808eb9ba600)
> > Stack:
> > ffffffff811b8aaa 0000000000004000 ffff880943fea480 ffff8808ef2bae50
> > ffff880943d32980 fffffffffffffffb ffff8808ef2bae40 ffff88094165ff50
> > 0000000000004000 000000000056ebe0 ffffffff811ad847 000000000056ebe0
> > Call Trace:
> > [<ffffffff811b8aaa>] read_kcore+0x17a/0x370
> > [<ffffffff811ad847>] proc_reg_read+0x77/0xc0
> > [<ffffffff81151687>] vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
> > [<ffffffff811517f3>] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
> > [<ffffffff81449692>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> >
> >Investigation determined that the bug triggered when reading system RAM
> >at the 4G mark. On this system, that was the first address using 1G pages
>
> Do you mean there is one page which is 1G?
>
1GB support in native kernel is started from 2.6.27 with these 2 commits:
39c11e6 and b4718e6. For Intel CPU, from Westmere it supports 1GB page.
BTW, IBM System x3550 M3 is a Westmere based system.


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2013-03-01 09:21:48

by Simon Jeons

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a kernel address v2

On 03/01/2013 05:15 PM, Chen Gong wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 02:43:53PM +0800, Simon Jeons wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:43:53 +0800
>> From: Simon Jeons <[email protected]>
>> To: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
>> CC: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>, Andrew Morton
>> <[email protected]>, [email protected],
>> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a
>> kernel address v2
>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221
>> Thunderbird/17.0.3
>>
>> On 02/13/2013 07:02 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
>>> Andrew or Ingo, please pick up.
>>>
>>> Changelog since v1
>>> o Add reviewed-bys and acked-bys
>>>
>>> A user reported a bug whereby a backup process accessing /proc/kcore
>>> caused an oops.
>>>
>>> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbb00ff33b000
>>> IP: [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
>>> PGD 0
>>> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
>>> CPU 6
>>> Modules linked in: af_packet nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc 8021q garp stp llc cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf microcode fuse nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod ioatdma ipv6 ipv6_lib igb dca i7core_edac edac_core i2c_i801 i2c_core cdc_ether usbnet bnx2 mii iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp rtc_cmos pci_hotplug tpm_tis sg tpm pcspkr tpm_bios serio_raw button ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore sd_mod crc_t10dif usb_common processor thermal_sys hwmon scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh ata_generic ata_piix libata megaraid_sas scsi_mod
>>>
>>> Pid: 16196, comm: Hibackp Not tainted 3.0.13-0.27-default #1 IBM System x3550 M3 -[7944 K3G]-/94Y7614
>>> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8103157e>] [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
>>> RSP: 0018:ffff88094165fe80 EFLAGS: 00010246
>>> RAX: 00003300ff33b000 RBX: ffff880100000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
>>> RDX: 0000000100000000 RSI: ffff880000000000 RDI: ff32b300ff33b400
>>> RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 00003ffffffff000 R09: 0000000000000000
>>> R10: 22302e31223d6e6f R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
>>> R13: 0000000000003000 R14: 0000000000571be0 R15: ffff88094165ff50
>>> FS: 00007ff152d33700(0000) GS:ffff88097f2c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>>> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
>>> CR2: ffffbb00ff33b000 CR3: 00000009405a3000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
>>> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>>> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>>> Process Hibackp (pid: 16196, threadinfo ffff88094165e000, task ffff8808eb9ba600)
>>> Stack:
>>> ffffffff811b8aaa 0000000000004000 ffff880943fea480 ffff8808ef2bae50
>>> ffff880943d32980 fffffffffffffffb ffff8808ef2bae40 ffff88094165ff50
>>> 0000000000004000 000000000056ebe0 ffffffff811ad847 000000000056ebe0
>>> Call Trace:
>>> [<ffffffff811b8aaa>] read_kcore+0x17a/0x370
>>> [<ffffffff811ad847>] proc_reg_read+0x77/0xc0
>>> [<ffffffff81151687>] vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
>>> [<ffffffff811517f3>] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
>>> [<ffffffff81449692>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>>>
>>> Investigation determined that the bug triggered when reading system RAM
>>> at the 4G mark. On this system, that was the first address using 1G pages
>> Do you mean there is one page which is 1G?
>>
> 1GB support in native kernel is started from 2.6.27 with these 2 commits:

Why call kernel native? Which kend of kernel is not native?

> 39c11e6 and b4718e6. For Intel CPU, from Westmere it supports 1GB page.
> BTW, IBM System x3550 M3 is a Westmere based system.
Is it only used in hugetlbfs page?

2013-03-01 09:37:55

by Chen, Gong

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a kernel address v2

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:21:35PM +0800, Simon Jeons wrote:
> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:21:35 +0800
> From: Simon Jeons <[email protected]>
> To: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>, Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>, Andrew
> Morton <[email protected]>, [email protected],
> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a
> kernel address v2
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221
> Thunderbird/17.0.3
>
> On 03/01/2013 05:15 PM, Chen Gong wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 02:43:53PM +0800, Simon Jeons wrote:
> >>Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:43:53 +0800
> >>From: Simon Jeons <[email protected]>
> >>To: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
> >>CC: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>, Andrew Morton
> >> <[email protected]>, [email protected],
> >> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
> >>Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a
> >> kernel address v2
> >>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221
> >> Thunderbird/17.0.3
> >>
> >>On 02/13/2013 07:02 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >>>Andrew or Ingo, please pick up.
> >>>
> >>>Changelog since v1
> >>> o Add reviewed-bys and acked-bys
> >>>
> >>>A user reported a bug whereby a backup process accessing /proc/kcore
> >>>caused an oops.
> >>>
> >>> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbb00ff33b000
> >>> IP: [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
> >>> PGD 0
> >>> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> >>> CPU 6
> >>> Modules linked in: af_packet nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc 8021q garp stp llc cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf microcode fuse nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod ioatdma ipv6 ipv6_lib igb dca i7core_edac edac_core i2c_i801 i2c_core cdc_ether usbnet bnx2 mii iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp rtc_cmos pci_hotplug tpm_tis sg tpm pcspkr tpm_bios serio_raw button ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore sd_mod crc_t10dif usb_common processor thermal_sys hwmon scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh ata_generic ata_piix libata megaraid_sas scsi_mod
> >>>
> >>> Pid: 16196, comm: Hibackp Not tainted 3.0.13-0.27-default #1 IBM System x3550 M3 -[7944 K3G]-/94Y7614
> >>> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8103157e>] [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
> >>> RSP: 0018:ffff88094165fe80 EFLAGS: 00010246
> >>> RAX: 00003300ff33b000 RBX: ffff880100000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
> >>> RDX: 0000000100000000 RSI: ffff880000000000 RDI: ff32b300ff33b400
> >>> RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 00003ffffffff000 R09: 0000000000000000
> >>> R10: 22302e31223d6e6f R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
> >>> R13: 0000000000003000 R14: 0000000000571be0 R15: ffff88094165ff50
> >>> FS: 00007ff152d33700(0000) GS:ffff88097f2c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> >>> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> >>> CR2: ffffbb00ff33b000 CR3: 00000009405a3000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> >>> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> >>> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> >>> Process Hibackp (pid: 16196, threadinfo ffff88094165e000, task ffff8808eb9ba600)
> >>> Stack:
> >>> ffffffff811b8aaa 0000000000004000 ffff880943fea480 ffff8808ef2bae50
> >>> ffff880943d32980 fffffffffffffffb ffff8808ef2bae40 ffff88094165ff50
> >>> 0000000000004000 000000000056ebe0 ffffffff811ad847 000000000056ebe0
> >>> Call Trace:
> >>> [<ffffffff811b8aaa>] read_kcore+0x17a/0x370
> >>> [<ffffffff811ad847>] proc_reg_read+0x77/0xc0
> >>> [<ffffffff81151687>] vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
> >>> [<ffffffff811517f3>] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
> >>> [<ffffffff81449692>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> >>>
> >>>Investigation determined that the bug triggered when reading system RAM
> >>>at the 4G mark. On this system, that was the first address using 1G pages
> >>Do you mean there is one page which is 1G?
> >>
> >1GB support in native kernel is started from 2.6.27 with these 2 commits:
>
> Why call kernel native? Which kend of kernel is not native?
relative to VMM like Xen.

>
> >39c11e6 and b4718e6. For Intel CPU, from Westmere it supports 1GB page.
> >BTW, IBM System x3550 M3 is a Westmere based system.
> Is it only used in hugetlbfs page?

Yes by now.


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2013-03-01 09:40:08

by Simon Jeons

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a kernel address v2

On 03/01/2013 05:35 PM, Chen Gong wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:21:35PM +0800, Simon Jeons wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:21:35 +0800
>> From: Simon Jeons <[email protected]>
>> To: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>, Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>, Andrew
>> Morton <[email protected]>, [email protected],
>> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a
>> kernel address v2
>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221
>> Thunderbird/17.0.3
>>
>> On 03/01/2013 05:15 PM, Chen Gong wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 02:43:53PM +0800, Simon Jeons wrote:
>>>> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:43:53 +0800
>>>> From: Simon Jeons <[email protected]>
>>>> To: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
>>>> CC: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>, Andrew Morton
>>>> <[email protected]>, [email protected],
>>>> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a
>>>> kernel address v2
>>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221
>>>> Thunderbird/17.0.3
>>>>
>>>> On 02/13/2013 07:02 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
>>>>> Andrew or Ingo, please pick up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Changelog since v1
>>>>> o Add reviewed-bys and acked-bys
>>>>>
>>>>> A user reported a bug whereby a backup process accessing /proc/kcore
>>>>> caused an oops.
>>>>>
>>>>> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbb00ff33b000
>>>>> IP: [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
>>>>> PGD 0
>>>>> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
>>>>> CPU 6
>>>>> Modules linked in: af_packet nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc 8021q garp stp llc cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf microcode fuse nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod ioatdma ipv6 ipv6_lib igb dca i7core_edac edac_core i2c_i801 i2c_core cdc_ether usbnet bnx2 mii iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp rtc_cmos pci_hotplug tpm_tis sg tpm pcspkr tpm_bios serio_raw button ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore sd_mod crc_t10dif usb_common processor thermal_sys hwmon scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh ata_generic ata_piix libata megaraid_sas scsi_mod
>>>>>
>>>>> Pid: 16196, comm: Hibackp Not tainted 3.0.13-0.27-default #1 IBM System x3550 M3 -[7944 K3G]-/94Y7614
>>>>> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8103157e>] [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
>>>>> RSP: 0018:ffff88094165fe80 EFLAGS: 00010246
>>>>> RAX: 00003300ff33b000 RBX: ffff880100000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
>>>>> RDX: 0000000100000000 RSI: ffff880000000000 RDI: ff32b300ff33b400
>>>>> RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 00003ffffffff000 R09: 0000000000000000
>>>>> R10: 22302e31223d6e6f R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
>>>>> R13: 0000000000003000 R14: 0000000000571be0 R15: ffff88094165ff50
>>>>> FS: 00007ff152d33700(0000) GS:ffff88097f2c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>>>>> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
>>>>> CR2: ffffbb00ff33b000 CR3: 00000009405a3000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
>>>>> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>>>>> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>>>>> Process Hibackp (pid: 16196, threadinfo ffff88094165e000, task ffff8808eb9ba600)
>>>>> Stack:
>>>>> ffffffff811b8aaa 0000000000004000 ffff880943fea480 ffff8808ef2bae50
>>>>> ffff880943d32980 fffffffffffffffb ffff8808ef2bae40 ffff88094165ff50
>>>>> 0000000000004000 000000000056ebe0 ffffffff811ad847 000000000056ebe0
>>>>> Call Trace:
>>>>> [<ffffffff811b8aaa>] read_kcore+0x17a/0x370
>>>>> [<ffffffff811ad847>] proc_reg_read+0x77/0xc0
>>>>> [<ffffffff81151687>] vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
>>>>> [<ffffffff811517f3>] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
>>>>> [<ffffffff81449692>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>>>>>
>>>>> Investigation determined that the bug triggered when reading system RAM
>>>>> at the 4G mark. On this system, that was the first address using 1G pages
>>>> Do you mean there is one page which is 1G?
>>>>
>>> 1GB support in native kernel is started from 2.6.27 with these 2 commits:
>> Why call kernel native? Which kend of kernel is not native?
> relative to VMM like Xen.

Oh, I see. Thanks. :)

>
>>> 39c11e6 and b4718e6. For Intel CPU, from Westmere it supports 1GB page.
>>> BTW, IBM System x3550 M3 is a Westmere based system.
>> Is it only used in hugetlbfs page?
> Yes by now.