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David Hildenbrand
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If max_pfn does not fall onto a section boundary, it is possible to inspect PFNs up to max_pfn, and PFNs above max_pfn, however, max_pfn itself can't be inspected. We can have a valid (and online) memmap at and above max_pfn if max_pfn is not aligned to a section boundary. The whole early section has a memmap and is marked online. Being able to inspect the state of these PFNs is valuable for debugging, especially because max_pfn can change on memory hotplug and expose these memmaps. Also, querying page flags via "./page-types -r -a 0x144001," (tools/vm/page-types.c) inside a x86-64 guest with 4160MB under QEMU results in an (almost) endless loop in user space, because the end is not detected properly when starting after max_pfn. Instead, let's allow to inspect all pages in the highest section and return 0 directly if we try to access pages above that section. While at it, check the count before adjusting it, to avoid masking user errors. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211163201.17179-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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