Re: [BUG] sysrq-m oops

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 14:21 -0400, Bob Picco wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:	[Thu Jun 07 2007, 11:42:38AM EDT]
> > On 06/06/2007 08:27 PM, john stultz wrote:
> > > Hey All,
> > > 	With 2.6.21 and the current -git, we're seeing the following oops when
> > > we try sysrq-m:
> > > 
> > 
> > It's here in arch/x86_64/mm/init.c::show_mem():
> > 
> >         for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
> >                for (i = 0; i < pgdat->node_spanned_pages; ++i) {
> This is probably with sparsemem? I'm working with acme@redhat.com to
> test a patch. Basically you need to validate the pfn because it
> could be in a hole. Most arches which support sparsemem perform this
> check.
> 
> 			if (!pfn_valid(pgdat->node_start_pfn + i))
> 				continue;


Yep. That catch avoids the issue! Sounds like a 2.6.21.x candidate.

thanks so much!
-john