From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/23] mm/lib/swiotlb: Use memblock apis for early memory allocations
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:24:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52AA61BF.9080204@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131212170857.e36d016a95992c932da824b0@linux-foundation.org>
On Thursday 12 December 2013 08:08 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 16:50:46 -0500 Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> wrote:
>
>> Switch to memblock interfaces for early memory allocator instead of
>> bootmem allocator. No functional change in beahvior than what it is
>> in current code from bootmem users points of view.
>>
>> Archs already converted to NO_BOOTMEM now directly use memblock
>> interfaces instead of bootmem wrappers build on top of memblock. And the
>> archs which still uses bootmem, these new apis just fallback to exiting
>> bootmem APIs.
>
> This one makes my x86_64 test box fail to boot. There's no obvious
> indication why and I don't have netconsole on this machine, sorry. It
> simply fails to mount the root fs.
>
> config:
>
Thanks for config and reporting the issue.
Unfortunately I don't have ability to test x86 machine but will
try to analyze it and find out whats could be going wrong.
Failure around rootfs mount means it could be something to do
with memory free related code from the patch.
Regards,
Santosh
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-09 21:50 [PATCH v3 00/23] mm: Use memblock interface instead of bootmem Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 01/23] mm/memblock: debug: correct displaying of upper memory boundary Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:56 ` Felipe Balbi
2013-12-09 22:39 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 02/23] mm/memblock: debug: don't free reserved array if !ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-10 0:11 ` Andrew Morton
2013-12-10 16:44 ` Grygorii Strashko
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 03/23] mm/bootmem: remove duplicated declaration of __free_pages_bootmem() Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 04/23] mm/memblock: remove unnecessary inclusions of bootmem.h Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 05/23] mm/memblock: drop WARN and use SMP_CACHE_BYTES as a default alignment Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-13 21:21 ` Tejun Heo
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 06/23] mm/memblock: reorder parameters of memblock_find_in_range_node Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-13 21:22 ` Tejun Heo
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 07/23] mm/memblock: switch to use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of MAX_NUMNODES Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-13 21:29 ` Tejun Heo
2013-12-14 0:44 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 08/23] mm/memblock: Add memblock memory allocation apis Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-10 0:25 ` Andrew Morton
2013-12-10 16:04 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-13 21:37 ` Tejun Heo
2013-12-14 0:52 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-14 11:08 ` Tejun Heo
2013-12-14 19:48 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-20 22:30 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 09/23] mm/init: Use memblock apis for early memory allocations Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 10/23] mm/printk: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 11/23] mm/page_alloc: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 12/23] mm/power: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 13/23] mm/lib/swiotlb: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-13 1:08 ` Andrew Morton
2013-12-13 1:24 ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 14/23] mm/lib/cpumask: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 15/23] mm/sparse: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 16/23] mm/hugetlb: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 17/23] mm/page_cgroup: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 18/23] mm/percpu: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 19/23] mm/memory_hotplug: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 20/23] mm/firmware: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 21/23] mm/ARM: kernel: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 22/23] mm/ARM: mm: " Santosh Shilimkar
2013-12-09 21:50 ` [PATCH v3 23/23] mm/ARM: OMAP: " Santosh Shilimkar
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