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SubjectRe: Suspected regression in "x86: extend e820 ealy_res support 32bit"
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>>> I'm seeing a crash in current x86.git tip/auto-latest when booting under
>>> Xen. The crash is rather early, but it's in __alloc_bootmem_core() in the
>>> final memset clear. Apparently the allocator is returning a bad page.
>>>
>>> This points to changes in the setup of the bootmem allocator, and the
>>> changes "x86: extend e820 ealy_res support 32bit" make to
>>> arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c:setup_bootmem_allocator() looks like the most
>>> likely suspect. Unfortunately its a rather large patch which is not easy to
>>> revert, so I haven't actually confirmed this yet.
>>
>>
>> thanks. please check the attached patch
>>
>> YH
>>
>> [PATCH] x86: bootmap size fix for 32 bit
>>
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge found
>> x86: extend e820 ealy_res support 32bit
>> cause regression...
>>
>> in setup_bootmem_allocator
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
>> index f38d840..938c7b3 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
>> @@ -566,17 +566,22 @@ static void __init relocate_initrd(void)
>>
>> void __init setup_bootmem_allocator(void)
>> {
>> + unsigned long bootmap_pages;
>> unsigned long bootmap_size, bootmap;
>> /*
>> * Initialize the boot-time allocator (with low memory only):
>> */
>> - bootmap_size = bootmem_bootmap_pages(max_low_pfn)<<PAGE_SHIFT;
>> + bootmap_pages = bootmem_bootmap_pages(max_low_pfn)<<PAGE_SHIFT;
>
> Forgot to remove the shift?
>
>> bootmap = find_e820_area(min_low_pfn<<PAGE_SHIFT,
>> - max_low_pfn<<PAGE_SHIFT, bootmap_size,
>> + max_low_pfn<<PAGE_SHIFT,
>> + bootmap_pages<<PAGE_SHIFT,
>
> Because this value is hardly sane anymore.
>
>> PAGE_SIZE);
>> if (bootmap == -1L)
>> panic("Cannot find bootmem map of size %ld\n", bootmap_size);
>> bootmap_size = init_bootmem(bootmap >> PAGE_SHIFT, max_low_pfn);
>> + printk(KERN_INFO " bootmap [%016lx - %016lx] pages %lx\n",
>> + bootmap, bootmap + bootmap_size - 1,
>> + bootmap_pages);
>> register_bootmem_low_pages(max_low_pfn);
>> early_res_to_bootmem(0, max_low_pfn<<PAGE_SHIFT);
>> reserve_bootmem(bootmap, bootmap_size, BOOTMEM_DEFAULT);
>
> Besides, what did you want to accomplish?

please drop this patch...

YH


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