On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 09:55:59 -0400 Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 9:37 AM Oscar Salvador > <osalvador@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:49:58PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2018-07-10-16-50 has been uploaded to > > > > > > > > http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/ > > > ... > > > > > > > * mm-sparse-add-a-static-variable-nr_present_sections.patch > > > > * mm-sparsemem-defer-the-ms-section_mem_map-clearing.patch > > > > * mm-sparsemem-defer-the-ms-section_mem_map-clearing-fix.patch > > > > * mm-sparse-add-a-new-parameter-data_unit_size-for-alloc_usemap_and_memmap.patch > > > > * mm-sparse-optimize-memmap-allocation-during-sparse_init.patch > > > > * mm-sparse-optimize-memmap-allocation-during-sparse_init-checkpatch-fixes.patch > > > > > > > * mm-sparse-remove-config_sparsemem_alloc_mem_map_together.patch > > > > > > This seems to be breaking my powerpc pseries qemu boots. > > > > > > The boot log with some extra debug shows eg: > > > > > > $ make pseries_le_defconfig > > > > Could you please share the config? > > I was not able to find such config in the kernel tree. (top-posting repaired so I can reply to your email, add other people and not confuse the heck out of them. Please don't) > I am OK, if this patch is removed from Baoquan's series. But, I would > still like to get rid of CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER, I > can work on this in my sparse_init re-write series. ppc64 should > really fallback safely to small chunks allocs, and if it does not > there is some existing bug. Michael please send the config that you > used. OK, I shall drop mm-sparse-remove-config_sparsemem_alloc_mem_map_together.patch for now.