On Tue, 15 May 2018 13:51:24 -0400 Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
wrote:
> It is unsafe to do virtual to physical translations before mm_init() is
> called if struct page is needed in order to determine the memory section
> number (see SECTION_IN_PAGE_FLAGS). This is because only in mm_init() we
> initialize struct pages for all the allocated memory when deferred struct
> pages are used.
>
> My recent fix exposed this problem,
"my recent fix" isn't very useful. I changed this to identify
c9e97a1997 ("mm: initialize pages on demand during boot"), yes?
>
> Fixes: 3a80a7fa7989 ("mm: meminit: initialise a subset of struct pages if
> CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set")
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
And I added cc:stable.
