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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.6.2: Shutdown kernel on zone-alignment failure
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The last msg repeated the alignment patch. Here is it.

diff -uN -r -X /home/mhf/sys/dont/dontdiff linux-2.6.2-Vanilla/include/linux/kernel.h linux-2.6.2-mhf177/include/linux/kernel.h
--- linux-2.6.2-Vanilla/include/linux/kernel.h 2004-02-06 19:37:44.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.2-mhf177/include/linux/kernel.h 2004-02-08 02:12:17.000000000 +0800
@@ -104,6 +104,15 @@

extern void bust_spinlocks(int yes);
extern int oops_in_progress; /* If set, an oops, panic(), BUG() or die() is in progress */
+
+/* If force_bug set, a BUG() will be forced when bug handler/console initialized.
+ * This is useful when something fatal happens very early during kernel init.
+ * To use:
+ * printk("FATAL ERROR: my error message - will force kernel BUG\n");
+ * force_bug = 1;
+ */
+extern int force_bug;
+
extern int panic_on_oops;
extern int system_running;
extern int tainted;
diff -uN -r -X /home/mhf/sys/dont/dontdiff linux-2.6.2-Vanilla/init/main.c linux-2.6.2-mhf177/init/main.c
--- linux-2.6.2-Vanilla/init/main.c 2004-02-06 19:37:45.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.2-mhf177/init/main.c 2004-02-08 02:19:15.000000000 +0800
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
* set up)
*/
int system_running;
+int force_bug;

/*
* Boot command-line arguments
@@ -454,6 +455,13 @@
vfs_caches_init(num_physpages);
radix_tree_init();
signals_init();
+ /*
+ * Something went badly wrong during the early initialisation process,
+ * so lets die before doing any damage or wasting people's time
+ * running a half dead kernel.
+ */
+ if (force_bug)
+ BUG();
/* rootfs populating might need page-writeback */
page_writeback_init();
populate_rootfs();
diff -uN -r -X /home/mhf/sys/dont/dontdiff linux-2.6.2-Vanilla/mm/page_alloc.c linux-2.6.2-mhf177/mm/page_alloc.c
--- linux-2.6.2-Vanilla/mm/page_alloc.c 2004-02-06 19:37:45.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.2-mhf177/mm/page_alloc.c 2004-02-08 04:14:06.000000000 +0800
@@ -1179,7 +1179,9 @@
for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++)
realtotalpages -= zholes_size[i];
pgdat->node_present_pages = realtotalpages;
- printk("On node %d totalpages: %lu\n", pgdat->node_id, realtotalpages);
+ printk("On node %d totalpages: %lu, zones aligned at: 0x%lx\n",
+ pgdat->node_id, realtotalpages,
+ 1UL << (MAX_ORDER-1 + PAGE_SHIFT));
}

/*
@@ -1240,14 +1242,14 @@
unsigned long *zones_size, unsigned long *zholes_size)
{
unsigned long i, j;
- const unsigned long zone_required_alignment = 1UL << (MAX_ORDER-1);
int cpu, nid = pgdat->node_id;
struct page *lmem_map = pgdat->node_mem_map;
unsigned long zone_start_pfn = pgdat->node_start_pfn;
+ unsigned long zone_bad_alignment;

pgdat->nr_zones = 0;
init_waitqueue_head(&pgdat->kswapd_wait);
-
+
for (j = 0; j < MAX_NR_ZONES; j++) {
struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + j;
unsigned long size, realsize;
@@ -1299,8 +1301,11 @@
pcp->batch = 1 * batch;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pcp->list);
}
- printk(" %s zone: %lu pages, LIFO batch:%lu\n",
- zone_names[j], realsize, batch);
+ if (realsize)
+ printk(" %s zone: %lu pages, LIFO batch:%lu, "
+ "physical start address at: 0x%lx\n",
+ zone_names[j], realsize, batch,
+ zone_start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&zone->active_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&zone->inactive_list);
atomic_set(&zone->refill_counter, 0);
@@ -1328,8 +1333,17 @@
zone->zone_mem_map = lmem_map;
zone->zone_start_pfn = zone_start_pfn;

- if ((zone_start_pfn) & (zone_required_alignment-1))
- printk("BUG: wrong zone alignment, it will crash\n");
+ /*
+ * Here the alignment of a zone is checked. Should alignment
+ * be wrong, all that can be done is to print an error message
+ * and defer the the BUG handler as it is not yet initialized.
+ */
+ if ((zone_bad_alignment = zone_start_pfn & ((1UL << (MAX_ORDER-1))-1))) {
+ printk(" %s zone: FATAL ERROR invalid zone alignment at: 0x%lx"
+ " - will force kernel BUG\n",
+ zone_names[j],zone_bad_alignment << PAGE_SHIFT);
+ force_bug = 1;
+ }

memmap_init(lmem_map, size, nid, j, zone_start_pfn);

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