Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix memmap to be initialized for the entire section

[David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>]

On 10/06/2016 02:52 AM, Robert Richter wrote:
> There is a memory setup problem on ThunderX systems with certain
> memory configurations. The symptom is
>
>   kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:1848!
>
> This happens for some configs with 64k page size enabled. The bug
> triggers for page zones with some pages in the zone not assigned to
> this particular zone. In my case some pages that are marked as nomap
> were not reassigned to the new zone of node 1, so those are still
> assigned to node 0.
>
> The reason for the mis-configuration is a change in pfn_valid() which
> reports pages marked nomap as invalid:
>
>   68709f45385a arm64: only consider memblocks with NOMAP cleared for linear mapping
>
> This causes pages marked as nomap being no long reassigned to the new
> zone in memmap_init_zone() by calling __init_single_pfn().
>
> Fixing this by restoring the old behavior of pfn_valid() to use
> memblock_is_memory(). Also changing users of pfn_valid() in arm64 code
> to use memblock_is_map_memory() where necessary. This only affects
> code in ioremap.c. The code in mmu.c still can use the new version of
> pfn_valid().
>
> Should be marked stable v4.5..

In that case you should add:

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.5.x-

here.


>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>
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