From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 023/159] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:03:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171222150326.GC28720@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171222141810.dpeozmylmnj253do@xps>
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 08:18:10AM -0600, Dan Rue wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 09:45:08AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > commit 83e3c48729d9ebb7af5a31a504f3fd6aff0348c4 upstream.
> >
> > Size of the mem_section[] array depends on the size of the physical address space.
> >
> > In preparation for boot-time switching between paging modes on x86-64
> > we need to make the allocation of mem_section[] dynamic, because otherwise
> > we waste a lot of RAM: with CONFIG_NODE_SHIFT=10, mem_section[] size is 32kB
> > for 4-level paging and 2MB for 5-level paging mode.
> >
> > The patch allocates the array on the first call to sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> > Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170929140821.37654-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> This patch causes a boot failure on arm64.
>
> Please drop this patch, or pick up the fix in:
>
> commit 629a359bdb0e0652a8227b4ff3125431995fec6e
> Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Tue Nov 7 11:33:37 2017 +0300
>
> mm/sparsemem: Fix ARM64 boot crash when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
>
> See https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1527427.html
Now added, thanks.
greg k-h
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2017-12-22 8:45 ` [PATCH 4.14 023/159] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-22 14:18 ` Dan Rue
2017-12-22 14:52 ` Naresh Kamboju
2017-12-22 15:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-22 15:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-01-07 5:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-07 9:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-07 9:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-07 10:18 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-07 10:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-07 12:44 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-07 13:23 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-08 7:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-08 8:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-08 8:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-08 9:45 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-08 8:47 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-08 9:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-08 9:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-08 16:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-01-08 17:46 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-09 0:13 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-09 1:09 ` Dave Young
2018-01-09 5:41 ` Baoquan He
2018-01-09 7:24 ` Dave Young
2018-01-09 9:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-10 3:08 ` Dave Young
2018-01-10 11:16 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-11 1:06 ` Baoquan He
2018-01-12 0:55 ` Dave Young
2018-01-15 5:57 ` Omar Sandoval
2018-01-16 8:36 ` Atsushi Kumagai
2018-01-09 3:44 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-02-07 9:25 ` Dou Liyang
2018-02-07 10:41 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-02-07 10:45 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-02-07 12:00 ` Dou Liyang
2018-02-07 12:08 ` Baoquan He
2018-02-07 12:17 ` Dou Liyang
2018-02-07 12:27 ` Baoquan He
2018-02-07 12:34 ` Dou Liyang
2018-02-07 12:45 ` Baoquan He
2018-02-08 1:14 ` Dou Liyang
2018-02-08 1:23 ` Baoquan He
2018-02-08 1:44 ` Dou Liyang
2018-02-07 11:28 ` Baoquan He
2018-01-17 5:24 ` Baoquan He
2018-01-25 15:50 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-01-26 2:48 ` Baoquan He
2017-12-22 8:45 ` [PATCH 4.14 024/159] x86/kasan: Use the same shadow offset for 4- and 5-level paging Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-22 8:45 ` [PATCH 4.14 025/159] x86/xen: Provide pre-built page tables only for CONFIG_XEN_PV=y and CONFIG_XEN_PVH=y Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-22 8:45 ` [PATCH 4.14 026/159] x86/xen: Drop 5-level paging support code from the XEN_PV code Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-22 8:45 ` [PATCH 4.14 033/159] x86/boot: Relocate definition of the initial state of CR0 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-22 8:46 ` [PATCH 4.14 097/159] x86/paravirt: Dont patch flush_tlb_single Greg Kroah-Hartman
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