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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3.3-rc5] memblock: Fix size aligning of memblock_alloc_base_nid()
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:56:21AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> memblock allocator aligns @size to @align to reduce the amount of
> fragmentation. 7bd0b0f0da "memblock: Reimplement memblock allocation
> using reverse free area iterator" broke it by incorrectly relocating
> @size aligning to memblock_find_in_range_node(). As the aligned size
> is not propagated back to memblock_alloc_base_nid(), the actually
> reserved size isn't aligned.
>
> While this increases memory use for memblock reserved array, this
> shouldn't cause any critical failure; however, it seems that the size
> aligning was hiding a use-beyond-allocation bug in sparc64 and losing
> the aligning causes boot failure.
>
> The underlying problem is currently being debugged but this is a
> proper fix in itself, it's already pretty late in -rc cycle for boot
> failures and reverting the change for debugging isn't difficult.
> Restore the size aligning moving it to memblock_alloc_base_nid().
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>

> Reported-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Actually not :-(
I only fooled around with some clueless suggestions - I do
not have any sparc64 boxes. And my sparc32 box that is alive atm,
does not exhibit this problem.

Sam


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