From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com [148.163.158.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3s4rmm5TQYzDqS9 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 23:45:44 +1000 (AEST) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098420.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.11/8.16.0.11) with SMTP id u74DiCHr030972 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 09:45:42 -0400 Received: from e23smtp05.au.ibm.com (e23smtp05.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.147]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 24kkajvyf2-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2016 09:45:40 -0400 Received: from localhost by e23smtp05.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 23:45:37 +1000 Received: from d23relay08.au.ibm.com (d23relay08.au.ibm.com [9.185.71.33]) by d23dlp03.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B003578056 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 23:45:35 +1000 (EST) Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (d23av01.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.96]) by d23relay08.au.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id u74DjZV422937682 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 23:45:35 +1000 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d23av01.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id u74DjYht025733 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 23:45:35 +1000 From: Srikar Dronamraju To: linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman , Vlastimil Babka , Michal Hocko , Andrew Morton , Michael Ellerman , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Mahesh Salgaonkar , Hari Bathini Cc: Dave Hansen , Balbir Singh , Srikar Dronamraju Subject: [PATCH] fadump: Register the memory reserved by fadump Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 19:12:45 +0530 Message-Id: <1470318165-2521-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Fadump kernel reserves large chunks of memory even before the pages are initialized. This could mean memory that corresponds to several nodes might fall in memblock reserved regions. Kernels compiled with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT will initialize only certain size memory per node. The certain size takes into account the dentry and inode cache sizes. Currently the cache sizes are calculated based on the total system memory including the reserved memory. However such a kernel when booting the same kernel as fadump kernel will not be able to allocate the required amount of memory to suffice for the dentry and inode caches. This results in crashes like the below on large systems such as 32 TB systems. Dentry cache hash table entries: 536870912 (order: 16, 4294967296 bytes) vmalloc: allocation failure, allocated 4097114112 of 17179934720 bytes swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x2080020(GFP_ATOMIC) CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.6-master+ #3 Call Trace: [c00000000108fb10] [c0000000007fac88] dump_stack+0xb0/0xf0 (unreliable) [c00000000108fb50] [c000000000235264] warn_alloc_failed+0x114/0x160 [c00000000108fbf0] [c000000000281484] __vmalloc_node_range+0x304/0x340 [c00000000108fca0] [c00000000028152c] __vmalloc+0x6c/0x90 [c00000000108fd40] [c000000000aecfb0] alloc_large_system_hash+0x1b8/0x2c0 [c00000000108fe00] [c000000000af7240] inode_init+0x94/0xe4 [c00000000108fe80] [c000000000af6fec] vfs_caches_init+0x8c/0x13c [c00000000108ff00] [c000000000ac4014] start_kernel+0x50c/0x578 [c00000000108ff90] [c000000000008c6c] start_here_common+0x20/0xa8 Register the memory reserved by fadump, so that the cache sizes are calculated based on the free memory (i.e Total memory - reserved memory). Suggested-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju --- arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c index 3cb3b02a..eae547d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c @@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ int __init fadump_reserve_mem(void) } fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_start = base; fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_size = size; + set_dma_reserve(size/PAGE_SIZE); return 1; } -- 1.8.5.6