The patch titled
Add debugging aid for memory initialisation problems
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems.patch
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Subject: Add debugging aid for memory initialisation problems
From: Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A number of bug reports have been submitted related to memory initialisation
that would have been easier to debug if the PFN of page addresses were
available. The dmesg output is often insufficient to find that information so
debugging patches need to be sent to the reporting user.
This patch prints out information on the memmap when it is being allocated and
the sizeof(struct page) when loglevel is set high enough. In most
architectures, this output is produced in generic code. x86_64 and ia64 both
setup node_mem_map in an architecture-specific manner requiring arch-specfic
changes. Th memmap information can be used to translate any valid page
address into a PFN. page_to_pfn() cannot be used directly in bad_page()
because there is no guarantee that the address pointer is valid in any way and
the translation can produce garbage.
Information on memmap is not printed out for the SPARSEMEM memory model. This
only applies to FLATMEM and DISCONTIG configurations.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/ia64/mm/contig.c | 3 +++
arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c | 3 +++
mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff -puN
arch/ia64/mm/contig.c~add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems
arch/ia64/mm/contig.c
--- a/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c~add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems
+++ a/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c
@@ -277,6 +277,9 @@ paging_init (void)
*/
NODE_DATA(0)->node_mem_map = vmem_map +
find_min_pfn_with_active_regions();
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG
+ "Node %d memmap at 0x%p size %lu first pfn 0x%p\n",
+ 0, vmem_map, map_size, NODE_DATA(0)->node_mem_map);
free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
printk("Virtual mem_map starts at 0x%p\n", mem_map);
diff -puN
arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c~add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems
arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c
---
a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c~add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems
+++ a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c
@@ -681,6 +681,9 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP
NODE_DATA(node)->node_mem_map = vmem_map + pfn_offset;
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG
+ "Node %d memmap at 0x%p size %u first pfn 0x%p\n",
+ node, vmem_map, 0, NODE_DATA(node)->node_mem_map);
#endif
if (mem_data[node].max_pfn > max_pfn)
max_pfn = mem_data[node].max_pfn;
diff -puN
arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c~add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems
arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c
diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems
mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3503,6 +3503,9 @@ static void __init_refok alloc_node_mem_
if (!map)
map = alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, size);
pgdat->node_mem_map = map + (pgdat->node_start_pfn - start);
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG
+ "Node %d memmap at 0x%p size %lu first pfn 0x%p\n",
+ pgdat->node_id, map, size, pgdat->node_mem_map);
}
#ifndef CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
/*
@@ -3940,6 +3943,9 @@ void __init free_area_init_nodes(unsigne
memset(zone_movable_pfn, 0, sizeof(zone_movable_pfn));
find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes(zone_movable_pfn);
+ /* Print out the page size for debugging meminit problems */
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "sizeof(struct page) = %zd\n", sizeof(struct page));
+
/* Print out the zone ranges */
printk("Zone PFN ranges:\n");
for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
slab-partially-revert-list3-changes.patch
git-x86.patch
memory-hotplug-add-removable-to-sysfs-to-show-memblock-removability.patch
page-allocator-clean-up-pcp-draining-functions.patch
page-allocator-get-rid-of-the-list-of-cold-pages.patch
page-allocator-get-rid-of-the-list-of-cold-pages-fix.patch
memcgroup-tidy-up-mem_cgroup_charge_common.patch
memcgroup-fix-hang-with-shmem-tmpfs.patch
page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.patch
add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems.patch
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