Widespread boot failures on ARM due to "mm/page_alloc.c: calculate zone_start_pfn at zone_spanned_pages_in_node()"
From: akpm@linux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton)
Date: 2016-01-05 00:35:28
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On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 23:55:12 +0000 Mark Brown [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 03:09:46PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:quoted
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:42:33 +0000 Mark Brown [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
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platforms in the kernelci.org boot tests[1]. Doing bisections with Arndale and BeagleBone Black identifies 904769ac82ebf (mm/page_alloc.c: calculate zone_start_pfn at zone_spanned_pages_in_node()) from the akpm tree as the first broken commit[2,3]. An example bootlog from the failure is:quoted
Thanks. That patch has rather a blooper if CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP=n. Is that the case in your testing?Seems to be what's making a difference from a quick run through, yes.
OK, thanks.
Stephen, can we please retain
mm-calculate-zone_start_pfn-at-zone_spanned_pages_in_node.patch
mm-introduce-kernelcore=mirror-option.patch
mm-introduce-kernelcore=mirror-option-fix.patch
mm-introduce-kernelcore=mirror-option-fix-2.patch
and add the below?
Or don't bother - I'll do an mmotm tomorrow with these in it.
I'd still like reviewing and testing from Taku Izumi please.
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: set a zone_start_pfn value in zone_spanned_pages_in_node
We got a new build warning in linux-next:
mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'free_area_init_node':
mm/page_alloc.c:5278:25: warning: 'zone_start_pfn' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
zone->zone_start_pfn = zone_start_pfn;
mm/page_alloc.c:5265:17: note: 'zone_start_pfn' was declared here
unsigned long zone_start_pfn, zone_end_pfn;
The code indeed looks wrong, but this is just a guess of what the
fix might be: I have not looked it in detail, so please treat this
as a bug report.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Taku Izumi <redacted>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-calculate-zone_start_pfn-at-zone_spanned_pages_in_node-fix mm/page_alloc.c--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-calculate-zone_start_pfn-at-zone_spanned_pages_in_node-fix
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c@@ -5013,6 +5013,8 @@ static inline unsigned long __meminit zo unsigned long *zone_end_pfn, unsigned long *zones_size) { + *zone_start_pfn = node_start_pfn; + *zone_end_pfn = node_end_pfn; return zones_size[zone_type]; }
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