On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 11/19/2017 12:36 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 06:29:49PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > @@ -2295,6 +2295,7 @@ void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void) > > > > if (pcpu_setup_first_chunk(ai, fc) < 0) > > > > panic("Failed to initialize percpu areas."); > > > > + pcpu_free_alloc_info(ai); > > > > > > This is the culprit. Everything works fine if I remove this line. > > > > Without this line, the memory at the ai pointer is leaked. Maybe this is > > modifying the memory allocation pattern and that triggers a bug later on > > in your case. > > > > At that point the console driver is not yet initialized and any error > > message won't be printed. You should enable the early console mechanism > > in your kernel (see arch/cris/arch-v32/kernel/debugport.c) and see what > > that might tell you. > > > > The problem is that BUG() on crisv32 does not yield useful output. > Anyway, here is the culprit. > > diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c > index 6aef64254203..2bcc8901450c 100644 > --- a/mm/bootmem.c > +++ b/mm/bootmem.c > @@ -382,7 +382,8 @@ static int __init mark_bootmem(unsigned long start, > unsigned long end, > return 0; > pos = bdata->node_low_pfn; > } > - BUG(); > + WARN(1, "mark_bootmem(): memory range 0x%lx-0x%lx not found\n", start, > end); > + return -ENOMEM; > } > > /** > diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c > index 79e3549cab0f..c75622d844f1 100644 > --- a/mm/percpu.c > +++ b/mm/percpu.c > @@ -1881,6 +1881,7 @@ struct pcpu_alloc_info * __init > pcpu_alloc_alloc_info(int nr_groups, > */ > void __init pcpu_free_alloc_info(struct pcpu_alloc_info *ai) > { > + printk("pcpu_free_alloc_info(%p (0x%lx))\n", ai, __pa(ai)); > memblock_free_early(__pa(ai), ai->__ai_size); The problem here is that there is two possibilities for memblock_free_early(). From include/linux/bootmem.h: #if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK) && defined(CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM) static inline void __init memblock_free_early( phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size) { __memblock_free_early(base, size); } #else static inline void __init memblock_free_early( phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size) { free_bootmem(base, size); } #endif It looks like most architectures use the memblock variant, including all the ones I have access to. > results in: > > pcpu_free_alloc_info(c0534000 (0x40534000)) > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/bootmem.c:385 mark_bootmem+0x9a/0xaa > mark_bootmem(): memory range 0x2029a-0x2029b not found Well... PFN_UP(0x40534000) should give 0x40534. How you might end up with 0x2029a in mark_bootmem(), let alone not exit on the first "if (max == end) return 0;" within the loop is rather weird. Nicolas -- 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>