pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx -> pavel.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx due to 550 5.1.1 Unknown recipient address. On 08/24/2018, 09:32 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 06/19/2018, 09:56 PM, Pavel Tatashin wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 9:50 AM Pavel Tatashin >> <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 4:04 AM Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 11/21/2017, 08:24 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: >>>>> On Thu 16-11-17 20:46:01, Pavel Tatashin wrote: >>>>>> There is no need to have ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT, >>>>>> as all the page initialization code is in common code. >>>>>> >>>>>> Also, there is no need to depend on MEMORY_HOTPLUG, as initialization code >>>>>> does not really use hotplug memory functionality. So, we can remove this >>>>>> requirement as well. >>>>>> >>>>>> This patch allows to use deferred struct page initialization on all >>>>>> platforms with memblock allocator. >>>>>> >>>>>> Tested on x86, arm64, and sparc. Also, verified that code compiles on >>>>>> PPC with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG disabled. >>>>> >>>>> There is slight risk that we will encounter corner cases on some >>>>> architectures with weird memory layout/topology >>>> >>>> Which x86_32-pae seems to be. Many bad page state errors are emitted >>>> during boot when this patch is applied: >>> >>> Hi Jiri, >>> >>> Thank you for reporting this bug. >>> >>> Because 32-bit systems are limited in the maximum amount of physical >>> memory, they don't need deferred struct pages. So, we can add depends >>> on 64BIT to DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT in mm/Kconfig. >>> >>> However, before we do this, I want to try reproducing this problem and >>> root cause it, as it might expose a general problem that is not 32-bit >>> specific. >> >> Hi Jiri, >> >> Could you please attach your config and full qemu arguments that you >> used to reproduce this bug. > > Hi, > > I seem I never replied. Attaching .config and the qemu cmdline: > $ qemu-kvm -m 2000 -hda /dev/null -kernel bzImage > > "-m 2000" is important to reproduce. > > If I disable CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT (which the patch allowed > to enable), the error goes away, of course. > > thanks, > -- js suse labs
