On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:38:55AM +0800, Zou Nan hai wrote: > > Hi, > We have seen bad_pte_print when testing crashdump on an SN machine in > recent 2.6.20 kernel. > There are tons of bad pte print (pfn < max_low_pfn) reports when the > crash kernel boots up, all those reported bad pages are inside initmem > range; > That is because if the crash kernel code and data happens to be at the > beginning of the 1st node. build_node_maps in discontig.c will bypass > reserved regions with filter_rsvd_memory. Since min_low_pfn is > calculated in build_node_map, so in this case, min_low_pfn will be > greater than kernel code and data. > > Because pages inside initmem are freed and reused later, we saw > pfn_valid check fail on those pages. > > I think this theoretically happen on a normal kernel. When I check > min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn calculation in contig.c and discontig.c. > I found more issues than this. > > 1. min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn calculation is inconsistent between > contig.c and discontig.c, > min_low_pfn is calculated as the first page number of boot memmap in > contig.c (Why? Though this may work at the most of the time, I don't > think it is the right logic). It is calculated as the lowest physical > memory page number bypass reserved regions in discontig.c. > max_low_pfn is calculated include reserved regions in contig.c. It is > calculated exclude reserved regions in discontig.c. > > 2. If kernel code and data region is happen to be at the begin or the > end of physical memory, when min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn calculation is > bypassed kernel code and data, pages in initmem will report bad. > > 3. initrd is also in reserved regions, if it is at the begin or at the > end of physical memory, kernel will refuse to reuse the memory. Because > the virt_addr_valid check in free_initrd_mem. > > So it is better to fix and clean up those issues. > Calculate min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn in a consistent way. > > Below is the patch, please review and comments > > Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@xxxxxxxxx> Hi Nanhai, this patch seems generaly ok to me. I've put it in my working tree to see if it helps or breaks anything. I've also made a few minor comments inline. > > diff -Nraup a/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c b/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c > --- a/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c 2007-02-27 00:42:06.000000000 -0500 > +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c 2007-02-27 03:03:00.000000000 -0500 > @@ -75,26 +75,6 @@ show_mem (void) > unsigned long bootmap_start; > > /** > - * find_max_pfn - adjust the maximum page number callback > - * @start: start of range > - * @end: end of range > - * @arg: address of pointer to global max_pfn variable > - * > - * Passed as a callback function to efi_memmap_walk() to determine the highest > - * available page frame number in the system. > - */ > -int > -find_max_pfn (unsigned long start, unsigned long end, void *arg) > -{ > - unsigned long *max_pfnp = arg, pfn; > - > - pfn = (PAGE_ALIGN(end - 1) - PAGE_OFFSET) >> PAGE_SHIFT; > - if (pfn > *max_pfnp) > - *max_pfnp = pfn; > - return 0; > -} > - > -/** > * find_bootmap_location - callback to find a memory area for the bootmap > * @start: start of region > * @end: end of region > @@ -155,9 +135,10 @@ find_memory (void) > reserve_memory(); > > /* first find highest page frame number */ > - max_pfn = 0; > - efi_memmap_walk(find_max_pfn, &max_pfn); > - > + min_low_pfn = -1; I think that this should be ~0UL rather than -1 as min_low_pfn is an unsigned long. > + max_low_pfn = 0; > + efi_memmap_walk(find_max_min_low_pfn, NULL); > + max_pfn = max_low_pfn; > /* how many bytes to cover all the pages */ > bootmap_size = bootmem_bootmap_pages(max_pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT; > > @@ -167,7 +148,8 @@ find_memory (void) > if (bootmap_start == ~0UL) > panic("Cannot find %ld bytes for bootmap\n", bootmap_size); > > - bootmap_size = init_bootmem(bootmap_start >> PAGE_SHIFT, max_pfn); > + bootmap_size = init_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(0), > + (bootmap_start >> PAGE_SHIFT), 0, max_pfn); This seems like an akward way to get around the architecture-idependant behaviour of init_bootmem() which sets min_low_pfn and max_low_pfn. Though I guess its ok. > /* Free all available memory, then mark bootmem-map as being in use. */ > efi_memmap_walk(filter_rsvd_memory, free_bootmem); > diff -Nraup a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c b/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c > --- a/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c 2007-02-27 00:42:06.000000000 -0500 > +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c 2007-02-27 03:00:30.000000000 -0500 > @@ -86,9 +86,6 @@ static int __init build_node_maps(unsign > bdp->node_low_pfn = max(epfn, bdp->node_low_pfn); > } > > - min_low_pfn = min(min_low_pfn, bdp->node_boot_start>>PAGE_SHIFT); > - max_low_pfn = max(max_low_pfn, bdp->node_low_pfn); > - > return 0; > } > > @@ -467,6 +464,7 @@ void __init find_memory(void) > /* These actually end up getting called by call_pernode_memory() */ > efi_memmap_walk(filter_rsvd_memory, build_node_maps); > efi_memmap_walk(filter_rsvd_memory, find_pernode_space); > + efi_memmap_walk(find_max_min_low_pfn, NULL); > > for_each_online_node(node) > if (mem_data[node].bootmem_data.node_low_pfn) { > diff -Nraup a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c > --- a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c 2007-02-27 00:42:06.000000000 -0500 > +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c 2007-02-27 03:08:10.000000000 -0500 > @@ -616,6 +616,22 @@ count_reserved_pages (u64 start, u64 end > return 0; > } > > +int > +find_max_min_low_pfn (unsigned long start, unsigned long end, void *arg) > +{ > + unsigned long pfn_start, pfn_end; > +#if CONFIG_FLATMEM I think this should be #ifdef not #if, I currently see the following compiler warning: arch/ia64/mm/init.c:655:5: warning: "CONFIG_FLATMEM" is not defined arch/ia64/mm/init.c:655:5: warning: "CONFIG_FLATMEM" is not defined > + pfn_start = (PAGE_ALIGN(__pa(start))) >> PAGE_SHIFT; > + pfn_end = (PAGE_ALIGN(__pa(end - 1))) >> PAGE_SHIFT; > +#else > + pfn_start = GRANULEROUNDDOWN(__pa(start)) >> PAGE_SHIFT; > + pfn_end = GRANULEROUNDUP(__pa(end - 1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT; > +#endif > + min_low_pfn = min(min_low_pfn, pfn_start); > + max_low_pfn = max(max_low_pfn, pfn_end); > + return 0; > +} > + > /* > * Boot command-line option "nolwsys" can be used to disable the use of any light-weight > * system call handler. When this option is in effect, all fsyscalls will end up bubbling > diff -Nraup a/include/asm-ia64/meminit.h b/include/asm-ia64/meminit.h > --- a/include/asm-ia64/meminit.h 2007-02-27 00:42:07.000000000 -0500 > +++ b/include/asm-ia64/meminit.h 2007-02-27 03:01:15.000000000 -0500 > @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ extern void reserve_memory (void); > extern void find_initrd (void); > extern int filter_rsvd_memory (unsigned long start, unsigned long end, void *arg); > extern void efi_memmap_init(unsigned long *, unsigned long *); > +extern int find_max_min_low_pfn (unsigned long , unsigned long, void *); > > /* > * For rounding an address to the next IA64_GRANULE_SIZE or order > > > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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