I was going to do some measurements but my kernel crashes now with a page fault in efi_rtc_probe(): [ 21.663393] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 20251000 [ 21.663396] pgd = ffff000009090000 [ 21.663401] [20251000] *pgd=0000010ffff90003 [ 21.663402] , *pud=0000010ffff90003 [ 21.663404] , *pmd=0000000fdc030003 [ 21.663405] , *pte=00e8832000250707 The sparsemem config requires the whole section to be initialized. Your patches do not address this. On 14.12.16 09:11:47, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > +config HOLES_IN_ZONE > + def_bool y > + depends on NUMA This enables pfn_valid_within() for arm64 and causes the check for each page of a section. The arm64 implementation of pfn_valid() is already expensive (traversing memblock areas). Now, this is increased by a factor of 2^18 for 4k page size (16384 for 64k). We need to initialize the whole section to avoid that. -Robert [ 21.663393] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 20251000 [ 21.663396] pgd = ffff000009090000 [ 21.663401] [20251000] *pgd=0000010ffff90003 [ 21.663402] , *pud=0000010ffff90003 [ 21.663404] , *pmd=0000000fdc030003 [ 21.663405] , *pte=00e8832000250707 [ 21.663405] [ 21.663411] Internal error: Oops: 96000047 [#1] SMP [ 21.663416] Modules linked in: [ 21.663425] CPU: 49 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 4.9.0.0.vanilla10-00002-g429605e9ab0a #1 [ 21.663426] Hardware name: www.cavium.com ThunderX CRB-2S/ThunderX CRB-2S, BIOS 0.3 Sep 13 2016 [ 21.663429] task: ffff800feee6bc00 task.stack: ffff800fec050000 [ 21.663433] PC is at 0x201ff820 [ 21.663434] LR is at 0x201fdfc0 [ 21.663435] pc : [<00000000201ff820>] lr : [<00000000201fdfc0>] pstate: 20000045 [ 21.663437] sp : ffff800fec053b70 [ 21.663440] x29: ffff800fec053bc0 x28: 0000000000000000 [ 21.663443] x27: ffff000008ce3e08 x26: ffff000008c52568 [ 21.663445] x25: ffff000008bf045c x24: ffff000008bdb828 [ 21.663448] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000040 [ 21.663451] x21: ffff800fec053bb8 x20: 0000000020251000 [ 21.663453] x19: ffff800fec053c20 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 21.663456] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 00000000bbb67a65 [ 21.663459] x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: ffff810016ea291c [ 21.663461] x13: ffff810016ea2181 x12: 0000000000000030 [ 21.663464] x11: 0101010101010101 x10: 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f [ 21.663467] x9 : feff716475687163 x8 : ffffffffffffffff [ 21.663469] x7 : 83f0680000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000 [ 21.663472] x5 : ffff800fc187aab9 x4 : 0002000000000000 [ 21.663474] x3 : ffff800fec053bb8 x2 : 0000000000000000 [ 21.663477] x1 : 83f0680000000000 x0 : 0000000020251000 [ 21.663478] [ 21.663479] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, stack limit = 0xffff800fec050020) ... [ 21.663605] [<00000000201ff820>] 0x201ff820 [ 21.663617] [<ffff000008c3eef4>] efi_rtc_probe+0x24/0x78 [ 21.663625] [<ffff000008586c88>] platform_drv_probe+0x60/0xc8 [ 21.663636] [<ffff0000085845d4>] driver_probe_device+0x26c/0x420 [ 21.663639] [<ffff0000085848ac>] __driver_attach+0x124/0x128 [ 21.663642] [<ffff000008581e08>] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xb0 [ 21.663644] [<ffff000008583c30>] driver_attach+0x30/0x40 [ 21.663647] [<ffff000008583668>] bus_add_driver+0x200/0x2b8 [ 21.663650] [<ffff000008585430>] driver_register+0x68/0x100 [ 21.663652] [<ffff000008586e3c>] __platform_driver_probe+0x84/0x128 [ 21.663654] [<ffff000008c3eec8>] efi_rtc_driver_init+0x20/0x28 [ 21.663658] [<ffff000008082d94>] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x138 [ 21.663665] [<ffff000008bf0d0c>] kernel_init_freeable+0x1ac/0x24c [ 21.663673] [<ffff00000885e7a0>] kernel_init+0x18/0x110 [ 21.663675] [<ffff000008082b30>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 [ 21.663679] Code: f9400000 d5033d9f d65f03c0 d5033e9f (f9000001) [ 21.663688] ---[ end trace e420ef9636e3c9b2 ]--- [ 21.663711] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b [ 21.663711] [ 21.663713] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs [ 21.670234] Kernel Offset: disabled [ 21.670235] Memory Limit: none [ 22.681333] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>