Current Octeon systems do in fact have holes in their memory zones.
We need to select HOLES_IN_ZONE. If we do not, some memory
configurations will result in crashes at boot time like this:
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CPU 6 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000000700000, epc == ffffffff8118fe00, ra == ffffffff8118fe9c
Oops[#1]:
Cpu 6
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Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8118fe00>] setup_per_zone_wmarks+0x1b0/0x338
[<ffffffff815cd738>] init_per_zone_wmark_min+0x64/0xd0
[<ffffffff81100438>] do_one_initcall+0x38/0x160
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Reported-by: Jason Kwon <jason.kwon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Kwon <jason.kwon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Jason, can you test this patch?
Ralf, if Jason reports that it fixes his problem, it probably is
needed for 3.0 and 3.1.
arch/mips/Kconfig | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index d300c2b..b122adc 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -723,6 +723,7 @@ config CAVIUM_OCTEON_SIMULATOR
select SYS_SUPPORTS_HIGHMEM
select SYS_SUPPORTS_HOTPLUG_CPU
select SYS_HAS_CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON
+ select HOLES_IN_ZONE
help
The Octeon simulator is software performance model of the Cavium
Octeon Processor. It supports simulating Octeon processors on x86
@@ -745,6 +746,7 @@ config CAVIUM_OCTEON_REFERENCE_BOARD
select ZONE_DMA32
select USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI
select USB_ARCH_HAS_EHCI
+ select HOLES_IN_ZONE
help
This option supports all of the Octeon reference boards from Cavium
Networks. It builds a kernel that dynamically determines the Octeon
@@ -974,6 +976,9 @@ config ISA_DMA_API
config GENERIC_GPIO
bool
+config HOLES_IN_ZONE
+ bool
+
#
# Endianess selection. Sufficiently obscure so many users don't know what to
# answer,so we try hard to limit the available choices. Also the use of a
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