I started testing new patches and it crashed when doing the x86-32 test on boot up. Initializing HighMem for node 0 (000375fe:0021ee00) BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000878 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = f0000000f000eef3 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.17.0-test+ #469 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014 EIP: get_pfnblock_flags_mask+0x2c/0x36 Code: 6d ea ff 55 89 e5 56 89 ce 53 8b 18 89 d8 c1 eb 1e e8 f7 fb ff ff 69 db c0 02 00 00 89 c1 89 c2 c1 ea 05 8b 83 7c d7 79 c1 5b <8b> 04 90 d3 e8 21 f0 5e 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 56 89 d6 53 89 c3 64 a1 EAX: 00000000 EBX: f75f6000 ECX: 000043dc EDX: 0000021e ESI: 00000007 EDI: 00000000 EBP: c15d9e34 ESP: c15d9e30 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00210007 CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00000878 CR3: 01a48000 CR4: 000406b0 Call Trace: __free_one_page+0x168/0x22a free_pcppages_bulk+0xf0/0x1b9 free_unref_page_commit+0xe4/0xed free_unref_page+0x77/0x9b free_the_page+0x16/0x18 __free_pages+0x22/0x51 add_highpages_with_active_regions+0xbb/0xea set_highmem_pages_init+0x69/0x7a mem_init+0x2d/0x141 start_kernel+0x353/0x5f4 ? set_intr_gate+0x47/0x5a ? early_idt_handler_common+0x44/0x44 i386_start_kernel+0x48/0x4a startup_32_smp+0x161/0x164 Modules linked in: CR2: 0000000000000878 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- I bisected it down to: 1dd214b8f21ca46d5431be9b2db8513c59e07a26 mm: page_alloc: avoid merging non-fallbackable pageblocks with others To confirm, I went back to Linus's master branch (from last night), to verify that it crashes. Then reverted this commit, recompiled and it booted up fine without it. Attached is the config that crashed. -- Steve
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