When booting a kdump kernel on a system that has specific memory hotplug
regions the boot will fail with warnings like:
[ 2.939467] swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0x84d0
[ 2.946564] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
3.10.0-65.el7.x86_64 #1
[ 2.954532] Hardware name: QCI QSSC-S4R/QSSC-S4R, BIOS
QSSC-S4R.QCI.01.00.S013.032920111005 03/29/2011
[ 2.964926] 0000000000000000 ffff8800341bd8c8 ffffffff815bcc67
ffff8800341bd950
[ 2.973224] ffffffff8113b1a0 ffff880036339b00 0000000000000009
00000000000084d0
[ 2.981523] ffff8800341bd950 ffffffff815b87ee 0000000000000000
0000000000000200
[ 2.989821] Call Trace:
[ 2.992560] [<ffffffff815bcc67>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[ 2.998300] [<ffffffff8113b1a0>] warn_alloc_failed+0xf0/0x160
[ 3.004817] [<ffffffff815b87ee>] ?
__alloc_pages_direct_compact+0xac/0x196
[ 3.012594] [<ffffffff8113f14f>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7ff/0xa00
[ 3.019692] [<ffffffff815b417c>] vmemmap_alloc_block+0x62/0xba
[ 3.026303] [<ffffffff815b41e9>] vmemmap_alloc_block_buf+0x15/0x3b
[ 3.033302] [<ffffffff815b1ff6>] vmemmap_populate+0xb4/0x21b
[ 3.039718] [<ffffffff815b461d>] sparse_mem_map_populate+0x27/0x35
[ 3.046717] [<ffffffff815b400f>] sparse_add_one_section+0x7a/0x185
[ 3.053720] [<ffffffff815a1e9f>] __add_pages+0xaf/0x240
[ 3.059656] [<ffffffff81047359>] arch_add_memory+0x59/0xd0
[ 3.065877] [<ffffffff815a21d9>] add_memory+0xb9/0x1b0
[ 3.071713] [<ffffffff81333b9c>] acpi_memory_device_add+0x18d/0x26d
[ 3.078813] [<ffffffff81309a01>] acpi_bus_device_attach+0x7d/0xcd
[ 3.085719] [<ffffffff8132379d>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0xc8/0x17f
[ 3.092716] [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
[ 3.100004] [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
[ 3.107293] [<ffffffff81323c8c>] acpi_walk_namespace+0x95/0xc5
[ 3.113904] [<ffffffff8130a6d6>] acpi_bus_scan+0x8b/0x9d
[ 3.119933] [<ffffffff81a2019a>] acpi_scan_init+0x63/0x160
[ 3.126153] [<ffffffff81a1ffb5>] acpi_init+0x25d/0x2a6
[ 3.131987] [<ffffffff81a1fd58>] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x2a/0x2a
[ 3.138889] [<ffffffff810020e2>] do_one_initcall+0xe2/0x190
[ 3.145210] [<ffffffff819e20c4>] kernel_init_freeable+0x17c/0x207
[ 3.152111] [<ffffffff819e18d0>] ? do_early_param+0x88/0x88
[ 3.158430] [<ffffffff8159fea0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[ 3.164264] [<ffffffff8159feae>] kernel_init+0xe/0x180
[ 3.170097] [<ffffffff815cca2c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[ 3.176123] [<ffffffff8159fea0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[ 3.181956] Mem-Info:
[ 3.184490] Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
[ 3.188007] CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
[ 3.193353] Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
[ 3.197060] CPU 0: hi: 42, btch: 7 usd: 0
[ 3.202410] active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
[ 3.202410] active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
[ 3.202410] unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
[ 3.202410] free:872 slab_reclaimable:13 slab_unreclaimable:1880
[ 3.202410] mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
[ 3.202410] free_cma:0
because the system has run out of memory at boot time. This occurs
because of the following sequence in the boot:
Main kernel boots and sets E820 map. The second kernel is booted with a
map generated by the kdump service using memmap= and memmap=exactmap.
These parameters are added to the kernel parameters of the kdump
kernel. The kdump kernel has limited memory resources so as not
to severely impact the main kernel.
The system then panics and the kdump kernel boots (which is a
completely new kernel boot). During this boot ACPI is initialized and the
kernel (as can be seen above) traverses the ACPI namespace and finds an
entry for a memory device to be hotadded.
ie)
[ 3.053720] [<ffffffff815a1e9f>] __add_pages+0xaf/0x240
[ 3.059656] [<ffffffff81047359>] arch_add_memory+0x59/0xd0
[ 3.065877] [<ffffffff815a21d9>] add_memory+0xb9/0x1b0
[ 3.071713] [<ffffffff81333b9c>] acpi_memory_device_add+0x18d/0x26d
[ 3.078813] [<ffffffff81309a01>] acpi_bus_device_attach+0x7d/0xcd
[ 3.085719] [<ffffffff8132379d>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0xc8/0x17f
[ 3.092716] [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
[ 3.100004] [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
[ 3.107293] [<ffffffff81323c8c>] acpi_walk_namespace+0x95/0xc5
[ 3.113904] [<ffffffff8130a6d6>] acpi_bus_scan+0x8b/0x9d
[ 3.119933] [<ffffffff81a2019a>] acpi_scan_init+0x63/0x160
[ 3.126153] [<ffffffff81a1ffb5>] acpi_init+0x25d/0x2a6
At this point the kernel adds page table information and the the kdump
kernel runs out of memory.
This can also be reproduced by using the memmap=exactmap and mem=X
parameters on the main kernel and booting.
This patchset resolves the problem by adding a kernel parameter,
acpi_no_memhotplug, to disable ACPI memory hotplug.
[v2]: changed acpi_no_memhotplug to bool
[v3]: cleaned up Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
[v4]: add __initdata to acpi_no_memhotplug
[v5]: remove kexec, kdump only
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani at hp.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb at kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro at gmail.com
Cc: dyoung at redhat.com
Cc: rientjes at google.com
Cc: linux-acpi at vger.kernel.org
Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++
drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index b9e9bd8..6201229 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -343,6 +343,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
no further checks are performed.
+ acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
+ kernels.
+
add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
kernel's map of available physical RAM.
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
index 551dad7..383cd80 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
@@ -361,7 +361,19 @@ static void acpi_memory_device_remove(struct acpi_device *device)
acpi_memory_device_free(mem_device);
}
+static bool __initdata acpi_no_memhotplug;
+
void __init acpi_memory_hotplug_init(void)
{
+ if (acpi_no_memhotplug)
+ return;
+
acpi_scan_add_handler_with_hotplug(&memory_device_handler, "memory");
}
+
+static int __init disable_acpi_memory_hotplug(char *str)
+{
+ acpi_no_memhotplug = true;
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("acpi_no_memhotplug", disable_acpi_memory_hotplug);
--
1.7.9.3
