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* [PATCH RESEND 3/5] MIPS: pfn_valid() is broken on low memory HIGHMEM systems
@ 2010-09-07  4:03 ` Kevin Cernekee
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Cernekee @ 2010-09-07  4:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ralf Baechle; +Cc: linux-mips, linux-kernel

pfn_valid() compares the PFN to max_mapnr:

        __pfn >= min_low_pfn && __pfn < max_mapnr;

On HIGHMEM kernels, highend_pfn is used to set the value of max_mapnr.
Unfortunately, highend_pfn is left at zero if the system does not
actually have enough RAM to reach into the HIGHMEM range.  This causes
pfn_valid() to always return false, and when debug checks are enabled
the kernel will fail catastrophically:

Memory: 22432k/32768k available (2249k kernel code, 10336k reserved, 653k data, 1352k init, 0k highmem)
NR_IRQS:128
kfree_debugcheck: out of range ptr 81c02900h.
Kernel bug detected[#1]:
Cpu 0
$ 0   : 00000000 10008400 00000034 00000000
$ 4   : 8003e160 802a0000 8003e160 00000000
$ 8   : 00000000 0000003e 00000747 00000747
...

On such a configuration, max_low_pfn should be used to set max_mapnr.

This was seen on 2.6.34.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
---
 arch/mips/mm/init.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/init.c b/arch/mips/mm/init.c
index 2efcbd2..18183a4 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/init.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
 #error "CONFIG_HIGHMEM and CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM dont work together yet"
 #endif
-	max_mapnr = highend_pfn;
+	max_mapnr = highend_pfn ? : max_low_pfn;
 #else
 	max_mapnr = max_low_pfn;
 #endif
-- 
1.7.0.4


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* [PATCH RESEND 3/5] MIPS: pfn_valid() is broken on low memory HIGHMEM systems
@ 2010-09-07  4:03 ` Kevin Cernekee
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Cernekee @ 2010-09-07  4:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ralf Baechle; +Cc: linux-mips, linux-kernel

pfn_valid() compares the PFN to max_mapnr:

        __pfn >= min_low_pfn && __pfn < max_mapnr;

On HIGHMEM kernels, highend_pfn is used to set the value of max_mapnr.
Unfortunately, highend_pfn is left at zero if the system does not
actually have enough RAM to reach into the HIGHMEM range.  This causes
pfn_valid() to always return false, and when debug checks are enabled
the kernel will fail catastrophically:

Memory: 22432k/32768k available (2249k kernel code, 10336k reserved, 653k data, 1352k init, 0k highmem)
NR_IRQS:128
kfree_debugcheck: out of range ptr 81c02900h.
Kernel bug detected[#1]:
Cpu 0
$ 0   : 00000000 10008400 00000034 00000000
$ 4   : 8003e160 802a0000 8003e160 00000000
$ 8   : 00000000 0000003e 00000747 00000747
...

On such a configuration, max_low_pfn should be used to set max_mapnr.

This was seen on 2.6.34.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
---
 arch/mips/mm/init.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/init.c b/arch/mips/mm/init.c
index 2efcbd2..18183a4 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/init.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
 #error "CONFIG_HIGHMEM and CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM dont work together yet"
 #endif
-	max_mapnr = highend_pfn;
+	max_mapnr = highend_pfn ? : max_low_pfn;
 #else
 	max_mapnr = max_low_pfn;
 #endif
-- 
1.7.0.4

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