On 5/4/20 8:39 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 11:43:00AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 10:41:38AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 03:11:23PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>>> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Some architectures (e.g. ARC) have the ZONE_HIGHMEM zone below the
>>>> ZONE_NORMAL. Allowing free_area_init() parse max_zone_pfn array even it is
>>>> sorted in descending order allows using free_area_init() on such
>>>> architectures.
>>>>
>>>> Add top -> down traversal of max_zone_pfn array in free_area_init() and use
>>>> the latter in ARC node/zone initialization.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> This patch causes my microblazeel qemu boot test in linux-next to fail.
>>> Reverting it fixes the problem.
>>>
>> The same problem is seen with s390 emulations.
>
> Yeah, this patch breaks some others as well :(
>
> My assumption that max_zone_pfn defines architectural limit for maximal
> PFN that can belong to a zone was over-optimistic. Several arches
> actually do that, but others do
>
> max_zone_pfn[ZONE_DMA] = MAX_DMA_PFN;
> max_zone_pfn[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_pfn;
>
> where MAX_DMA_PFN is build-time constrain and max_pfn is run time limit
> for the current system.
>
> So, when max_pfn is lower than MAX_DMA_PFN, the free_init_area() will
> consider max_zone_pfn as descending and will wrongly calculate zone
> extents.
>
> That said, instead of trying to create a generic way to special case
> ARC, I suggest to simply use the below patch instead.
>
As a reminder, I reported the problem against s390 and microblazeel
(interestingly enough, microblaze (big endian) works), not against arc.
Guenter
> diff --git a/arch/arc/mm/init.c b/arch/arc/mm/init.c
> index 41eb9be1653c..386959bac3d2 100644
> --- a/arch/arc/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arc/mm/init.c
> @@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ void __init early_init_dt_add_memory_arch(u64 base, u64 size)
> base, TO_MB(size), !in_use ? "Not used":"");
> }
>
> +bool arch_has_descending_max_zone_pfns(void)
> +{
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * First memory setup routine called from setup_arch()
> * 1. setup swapper's mm @init_mm
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index b990e9734474..114f0e027144 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -7307,6 +7307,15 @@ static void check_for_memory(pg_data_t *pgdat, int nid)
> }
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Some architecturs, e.g. ARC may have ZONE_HIGHMEM below ZONE_NORMAL. For
> + * such cases we allow max_zone_pfn sorted in the descending order
> + */
> +bool __weak arch_has_descending_max_zone_pfns(void)
> +{
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> /**
> * free_area_init - Initialise all pg_data_t and zone data
> * @max_zone_pfn: an array of max PFNs for each zone
> @@ -7324,7 +7333,7 @@ void __init free_area_init(unsigned long *max_zone_pfn)
> {
> unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
> int i, nid, zone;
> - bool descending = false;
> + bool descending;
>
> /* Record where the zone boundaries are */
> memset(arch_zone_lowest_possible_pfn, 0,
> @@ -7333,14 +7342,7 @@ void __init free_area_init(unsigned long *max_zone_pfn)
> sizeof(arch_zone_highest_possible_pfn));
>
> start_pfn = find_min_pfn_with_active_regions();
> -
> - /*
> - * Some architecturs, e.g. ARC may have ZONE_HIGHMEM below
> - * ZONE_NORMAL. For such cases we allow max_zone_pfn sorted in the
> - * descending order
> - */
> - if (MAX_NR_ZONES > 1 && max_zone_pfn[0] > max_zone_pfn[1])
> - descending = true;
> + descending = arch_has_descending_max_zone_pfns();
>
> for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
> if (descending)
>
>> Guenter
>>
>>> qemu command line:
>>>
>>> qemu-system-microblazeel -M petalogix-ml605 -m 256 \
>>> -kernel arch/microblaze/boot/linux.bin -no-reboot \
>>> -initrd rootfs.cpio \
>>> -append 'panic=-1 slub_debug=FZPUA rdinit=/sbin/init console=ttyS0,115200' \
>>> -monitor none -serial stdio -nographic
>>>
>>> initrd:
>>> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/blob/master/rootfs/microblazeel/rootfs.cpio.gz
>>> configuration:
>>> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/blob/master/rootfs/microblazeel/qemu_microblazeel_ml605_defconfig
>>>
>>> Bisect log is below.
>>>
>>> Guenter
>>>
>>> ---
>>> # bad: [fb9d670f57e3f6478602328bbbf71138be06ca4f] Add linux-next specific files for 20200501
>>> # good: [6a8b55ed4056ea5559ebe4f6a4b247f627870d4c] Linux 5.7-rc3
>>> git bisect start 'HEAD' 'v5.7-rc3'
>>> # good: [068b80b68a670f0b17288c8a3d1ee751f35162ab] Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next'
>>> git bisect good 068b80b68a670f0b17288c8a3d1ee751f35162ab
>>> # good: [46c70fc6a3ac35cd72ddad248dcbe4eee716d2a5] Merge remote-tracking branch 'drivers-x86/for-next'
>>> git bisect good 46c70fc6a3ac35cd72ddad248dcbe4eee716d2a5
>>> # good: [f39c4ad479a2f005f972a2b941b40efa6b9c9349] Merge remote-tracking branch 'rpmsg/for-next'
>>> git bisect good f39c4ad479a2f005f972a2b941b40efa6b9c9349
>>> # bad: [165d3ee0162fe28efc2c8180176633e33515df15] ipc-convert-ipcs_idr-to-xarray-update
>>> git bisect bad 165d3ee0162fe28efc2c8180176633e33515df15
>>> # good: [001f1d211ed2ed0f005838dc4390993930bbbd69] mm: remove early_pfn_in_nid() and CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
>>> git bisect good 001f1d211ed2ed0f005838dc4390993930bbbd69
>>> # bad: [aaad7401bd32f10c1d591dd886b3a9b9595c6d77] mm/vmsan: fix some typos in comment
>>> git bisect bad aaad7401bd32f10c1d591dd886b3a9b9595c6d77
>>> # bad: [09f9d0ab1fbed85623b283995aa7a7d78daa1611] khugepaged: allow to collapse PTE-mapped compound pages
>>> git bisect bad 09f9d0ab1fbed85623b283995aa7a7d78daa1611
>>> # bad: [c942fc8a3e5088407bc32d94f554bab205175f8a] mm/vmstat.c: do not show lowmem reserve protection information of empty zone
>>> git bisect bad c942fc8a3e5088407bc32d94f554bab205175f8a
>>> # bad: [b29358d269ace3826d8521bea842fc2984cfc11b] mm/page_alloc.c: rename free_pages_check() to check_free_page()
>>> git bisect bad b29358d269ace3826d8521bea842fc2984cfc11b
>>> # bad: [be0fb591a1f1df20a00c8f023f9ca4891f177b0d] mm: simplify find_min_pfn_with_active_regions()
>>> git bisect bad be0fb591a1f1df20a00c8f023f9ca4891f177b0d
>>> # bad: [c17422a008d36dcf3e9f51469758c5762716cb0a] mm: rename free_area_init_node() to free_area_init_memoryless_node()
>>> git bisect bad c17422a008d36dcf3e9f51469758c5762716cb0a
>>> # bad: [51a2f644fd020d5f090044825c388444d11029d5] mm: free_area_init: allow defining max_zone_pfn in descending order
>>> git bisect bad 51a2f644fd020d5f090044825c388444d11029d5
>>> # first bad commit: [51a2f644fd020d5f090044825c388444d11029d5] mm: free_area_init: allow defining max_zone_pfn in descending order
>
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