Re: A crash on ARM64 in move_freepages_block due to uninitialized pages in reserved memory

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On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:

> On Thu 23-08-18 07:02:37, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> [...]
> > This crash is not from -ENOENT. It crashes because page->compound_head is 
> > 0xffffffffffffffff (see below).
> > 
> > If I enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, I also get VM_BUG.
> 
> This smells like the struct page is not initialized properly. How is
> this memory range added? I mean is it brought up by the memory hotplug
> or during the boot?
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs

During the boot. There's not hotplug.

Mikulas




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