On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 01:42:42PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote: > > > On 02/11/17 13:34, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 12:31:54PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote: > >> (+Will, Catalin) > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 1:27 PM, tip-bot for Kirill A. Shutemov > >> <tip...@zytor.com> wrote: > >>> Commit-ID: 83e3c48729d9ebb7af5a31a504f3fd6aff0348c4 > >>> Gitweb: > >>> https://git.kernel.org/tip/83e3c48729d9ebb7af5a31a504f3fd6aff0348c4 > >>> Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> > >>> AuthorDate: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:08:16 +0300 > >>> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> > >>> CommitDate: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:07:09 +0200 > >>> > >>> mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for > >>> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y > >>> > >>> 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(). > >>> > >> > >> I am seeing a boot failure with this patch in linux-next today(20171102) > > > > Could you share the kernel config? > > > > It's the default config on arm64. Generated file is almost 160kB, I will > send it to you off-list. > > > Have you bisected the failure to the commit? > > > I just reverted this commit as I suspected that and it boots fine after > the revert.
Could you try the patch below instead? >From 4a9d843f9d939d958612b0079ebe5743f265e1e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 17:02:29 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] mm, sparse: Fix boot on arm64 Since 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y") we allocate mem_section dynamically in sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions(). But some architectures, like arm64, don't use the routine to initialize sparsemem. Let's move the initialization into memory_present() it should cover all architectures. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> Fixes: 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y") --- mm/page_alloc.c | 10 ---------- mm/sparse.c | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 8dfd13f724d9..77e4d3c5c57b 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5646,16 +5646,6 @@ void __init sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions(int nid) unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn; int i, this_nid; -#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME - if (!mem_section) { - unsigned long size, align; - - size = sizeof(struct mem_section) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS; - align = 1 << (INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT); - mem_section = memblock_virt_alloc(size, align); - } -#endif - for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, &this_nid) memory_present(this_nid, start_pfn, end_pfn); } diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index b00a97398795..d294148ba395 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -206,6 +206,16 @@ void __init memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { unsigned long pfn; +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME + if (unlikely(!mem_section)) { + unsigned long size, align; + + size = sizeof(struct mem_section) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS; + align = 1 << (INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT); + mem_section = memblock_virt_alloc(size, align); + } +#endif + start &= PAGE_SECTION_MASK; mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(&start, &end); for (pfn = start; pfn < end; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) { -- Kirill A. Shutemov