The patch titled
uml: fix LVM crash
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
uml-fix-lvm-crash.patch
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Subject: uml: fix LVM crash
From: Jason Lunz <lunz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Permit lvm to create logical volumes without crashing UML.
When device-mapper's DM_DEV_CREATE_CMD ioctl is called to create a new device,
dev_create()->dm_create()->alloc_dev()-> blk_queue_bounce_limit(md->queue,
BLK_BOUNCE_ANY) is called.
blk_queue_bounce_limit(BLK_BOUNCE_ANY) calls init_emergency_isa_pool() if
blk_max_pfn < blk_max_low_pfn. This is the case on UML, but
init_emergency_isa_pool() hits BUG_ON(!isa_page_pool) because there doesn't
seem to be a dma zone on UML for mempool_create() to allocate from.
Most architectures seem to have max_low_pfn == max_pfn, but UML doesn't
because of the uml_reserved chunk it keeps for itself. From what I can see,
max_pfn and max_low_pfn don't get much use after the bootmem-allocator stops
being used anyway, except that they initialize the block layer's
blk_max_low_pfn/blk_max_pfn.
This ensures init_emergency_isa_pool() doesn't crash uml in this situation by
setting max_low_pfn == max_pfn in mem_init().
Signed-off-by: Jason Lunz <lunz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/um/kernel/mem.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN arch/um/kernel/mem.c~uml-fix-lvm-crash arch/um/kernel/mem.c
--- a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c~uml-fix-lvm-crash
+++ a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c
@@ -64,8 +64,6 @@ static void setup_highmem(unsigned long
void mem_init(void)
{
- max_low_pfn = (high_physmem - uml_physmem) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-
/* clear the zero-page */
memset((void *) empty_zero_page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
@@ -80,6 +78,7 @@ void mem_init(void)
/* this will put all low memory onto the freelists */
totalram_pages = free_all_bootmem();
+ max_low_pfn = totalram_pages;
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
totalhigh_pages = highmem >> PAGE_SHIFT;
totalram_pages += totalhigh_pages;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from lunz@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
git-wireless.patch
uml-fix-lvm-crash.patch
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