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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, regressions@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm: extend pfn_valid to take into accound freed memory map alignment
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:53:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YNsX5pyqNeRlwtyf@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YNsXDEgreCpshZxb@linux.ibm.com>

* Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> [210629 12:50]:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 02:52:39PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> [210629 10:51]:
> > > As it seems, the new version of pfn_valid() decides that last pages are not
> > > valid because of the overflow in memblock_overlaps_region(). As the result,
> > > __sync_icache_dcache() skips flushing these pages.
> > > 
> > > The patch below should fix this. I've left the prints for now, hopefully
> > > they will not appear anymore. 
> > 
> > Yes this allows the system to boot for me :)
> > 
> > I'm still seeing these three prints though:
> > 
> > ...
> > smp: Brought up 1 node, 2 CPUs
> > SMP: Total of 2 processors activated (3994.41 BogoMIPS).
> > CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
> > pfn_valid(__pageblock_pfn_to_page+0x14/0xa8): pfn: afe00: is_map: 0 overlaps: 1
> > pfn_valid(__pageblock_pfn_to_page+0x28/0xa8): pfn: affff: is_map: 0 overlaps: 1
> > pfn_valid(__pageblock_pfn_to_page+0x38/0xa8): pfn: afe00: is_map: 0 overlaps: 1
> 
> These pfns do have memory map despite they are stolen in
> arm_memblock_steal():
> 
> memblock_free: [0xaff00000-0xafffffff] arm_memblock_steal+0x50/0x70
> memblock_remove: [0xaff00000-0xafffffff] arm_memblock_steal+0x5c/0x70
> ...
> memblock_free: [0xafe00000-0xafefffff] arm_memblock_steal+0x50/0x70
> memblock_remove: [0xafe00000-0xafefffff] arm_memblock_steal+0x5c/0x70
> 
> But the struct pages there are never initialized.
> 
> I'll resend v3 of the entire set with an addition patch to take care of
> that as well.

OK sounds good to me :)

Thanks,

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-29 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-19 14:14 [PATCH v2 0/3] memblock, arm: fixes for freeing of the memory map Mike Rapoport
2021-05-19 14:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] memblock: free_unused_memmap: use pageblock units instead of MAX_ORDER Mike Rapoport
2021-05-19 14:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] memblock: align freed memory map on pageblock boundaries with SPARSEMEM Mike Rapoport
2021-05-19 14:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] arm: extend pfn_valid to take into accound freed memory map alignment Mike Rapoport
2021-06-28 10:20   ` Tony Lindgren
2021-06-28 13:16     ` Mike Rapoport
2021-06-28 15:26       ` Tony Lindgren
2021-06-29  5:33         ` Mike Rapoport
2021-06-29  8:54           ` Tony Lindgren
2021-06-29 10:50             ` Mike Rapoport
2021-06-29 11:52               ` Tony Lindgren
2021-06-29 12:50                 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-06-29 12:53                   ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2021-06-30  7:20                   ` Mike Rapoport
2021-05-20  6:21 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] memblock, arm: fixes for freeing of the memory map Kefeng Wang

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