Hi Johannes,

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
>
>
> Patch on top of mmotm:
>
> ---
> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Subject: [patch] mm: page_alloc: use vmstats for fair zone allocation
> batching
>
> Avoid dirtying the same cache line with every single page allocation
> by making the fair per-zone allocation batch a vmstat item, which will
> turn it into batched percpu counters on SMP.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>


I bisected several boot failures on various ARM platform in next-20130816
down to this patch (commit 67131f9837 in linux-next.)  Simply reverting it
got things booting again on top of -next.  Example boot crash below.

Kevin


[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.11.0-rc5-next-20130816 (khilman@paris) (gcc
version 4.7.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-1ubuntu1) ) #30 SMP Fri Aug 16 09:47:32
PDT 2013
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc082] revision 2 (ARMv7),
cr=10c53c7d
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing
instruction cache
[    0.000000] Machine: Generic AM33XX (Flattened Device Tree), model: TI
AM335x BeagleBone
[    0.000000] bootconsole [earlycon0] enabled
[    0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 130816
[    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c081d400, node_mem_map
c12fc000
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 1024 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
address 00000026
[    0.000000] pgd = c0004000
[    0.000000] [00000026] *pgd=00000000
[    0.000000] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
[    0.000000] Modules linked in:
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted
3.11.0-rc5-next-20130816 #30
[    0.000000] task: c0793c70 ti: c0788000 task.ti: c0788000
[    0.000000] PC is at __mod_zone_page_state+0x2c/0xb4
[    0.000000] LR is at mod_zone_page_state+0x2c/0x4c
[    0.000000] pc : [<c00eb628>]    lr : [<c00ebbf0>]    psr: 60000193
[    0.000000] sp : c0789e84  ip : 00000026  fp : c0789ef8
[    0.000000] r10: c0789f04  r9 : c05149dc  r8 : 00000000
[    0.000000] r7 : 00000026  r6 : 00000000  r5 : c0791770  r4 : c0788000
[    0.000000] r3 : 00000000  r2 : 0001fb00  r1 : 00000001  r0 : c081d400
[    0.000000] Flags: nZCv  IRQs off  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM
 Segment kernel
[    0.000000] Control: 10c5387d  Table: 80004019  DAC: 00000017
[    0>.000000] Process swapper (pid: 0, stack limit = 0xc0788240)
[    0.000000] Stack: (0xc0789e84 to 0xc078a000)
[    0.000000] 9e80:          60000193 0001fb00 00000001 c081d400 c0781570
c081d400 c081d400
[    0.000000] 9ea0: 00000000 0001fb00 00020000 c0747dd4 c077c5f4 00000001
0009ff00 0001fb00
[    0.000000] 9ec0: 00000400 00080000 00000000 bfffffff c07ebfb0 000a0000
c0789ef8 00080000
[    0.000000] 9ee0: 000a0000 00020000 000001cf c07ec188 000000cf c072ef2c
00020000 00000000
[    0.000000] 9f00: 00000000 00000100 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
c0821d0c dfefa000
[    0.000000] 9f20: c07ebfb0 00000001 00000001 c073080c c0789fdc c076abd4
ffff1000 0009feff
[    0.000000] 9f40: 00001000 00000007 c0734a14 c076abd4 c0821ca0 c0008000
c076c8f0 c07ec188
[    0.000000] 9f60: 413fc082 c0789fdc c064b328 c072cc3c 00000000 10c53c7d
c0d5e448 00000001
[    0.000000] 9f80: 00000000 c076c8ec c079542c 80004059 413fc082 00000000
00000000 c04f6298
[    0.000000] 9fa0: c064989c 00000001 00000000 c076c8ec c079542c 80004059
413fc082 00000000
[    0.000000] 9fc0: 00000000 c07297ec 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 c076c8f0
[    0.000000] 9fe0: 00000000 10c53c7d c07908e8 c076c8ec c079542c 80008074
00000000 00000000
[    0.000000] [<c00eb628>] (__mod_zone_page_state+0x2c/0xb4) from
[<c081d400>] (contig_page_data+0x0/0xd80)
[    0.000000] Code: e7958103 e0867001 e2877025 e1a0c007 (e19cc0d8)
[    0.000000] ---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719ed1c ]---