From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Fix boot problem with deferred meminit on machine with no node 0
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 21:00:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1468008031-3848-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> (raw)
A machine with only node 1 was observed to crash very early in boot with
the following message
[ 0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000002a3c8
[ 0.000000] PGD 0
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: Supermicro H8DSP-8/H8DSP-8, BIOS 080011 06/30/2006
[ 0.000000] task: ffffffff81c0d500 ti: ffffffff81c00000 task.ti: ffffffff81c00000
[ 0.000000] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff816dbd63>] [<ffffffff816dbd63>] reserve_bootmem_region+0x6a/0xef
[ 0.000000] RSP: 0000:ffffffff81c03eb0 EFLAGS: 00010086
[ 0.000000] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] RDX: ffffffff81c03ec0 RSI: ffffffff81d205c0 RDI: ffffffff8213ee60
[ 0.000000] R13: ffffea0000000000 R14: ffffea0000000020 R15: ffffea0000000020
[ 0.000000] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8800fba00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 0.000000] CR2: 000000000002a3c8 CR3: 0000000001c06000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
[ 0.000000] Stack:
[ 0.000000] ffffffff81c03f00 0000000000000400 ffff8800fbfc3200 ffffffff81e2a2c0
[ 0.000000] ffffffff81c03fb0 ffffffff81c03f20 ffffffff81dadf7d ffffea0002000040
[ 0.000000] ffffea0000000000 0000000000000000 000000000000ffff 0000000000000001
[ 0.000000] Call Trace:
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81dadf7d>] free_all_bootmem+0x4b/0x12a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81d97122>] mem_init+0x70/0xa3
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81d78f21>] start_kernel+0x25b/0x49b
This series is the lowest-risk solution to the problem.
mm/page_alloc.c | 17 +++--------------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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2.6.4
next reply other threads:[~2016-07-08 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-08 20:00 Mel Gorman [this message]
2016-07-08 20:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm, meminit: Remove early_page_nid_uninitialised Mel Gorman
2016-07-08 20:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm, meminit: Always return a valid node from early_pfn_to_nid Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 23:26 ` David Rientjes
2016-07-13 10:34 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-08 20:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm, meminit: Ensure node is online before checking whether pages are uninitialised Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 23:28 ` David Rientjes
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