The patch titled alloc_bootmem_core(): fix misaligned allocation of 1G page has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was alloc_bootmem_core-fix-misaligned-allocation-of-1g-page.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: alloc_bootmem_core(): fix misaligned allocation of 1G page From: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx> If memory hole remapping is enabled on an x86-NUMA system, allocation of 1G pages on node 1 will most probably trigger an BUG_ON in alloc_bootmem_huge_page because alloc_bootmem_core fails to properly align the huge page on a 1G boundary. I've observed this Oops with kernel 2.6.27-rc2-00166-gaeee90d with a 2 socket system and activated memory hole remapping. (Of course disabling memory hole remapping works around the problem but this wastes a significant amount of memory.) Here some dmesg snippet with that kernel (using "bootmem_debug" plus some additional printk's): ... Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000130000000 ... Bootmem setup node 1 0000000130000000-0000000230000000 ... Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda4 console=ttyS0,115200 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=0 hugepagesz=1G hugepages=3 bootmem_debug debug earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 ... bootmem::alloc_bootmem_core nid=1 size=40000000 [262144 pages] align=40000000 goal=0 limit=0 min: 1245184, max: 2293760, step: 262144, start: 1310720 sidx: 65536, midx: 1048576 sidx: 65536 sidx: 262144, eidx: 524288 start_off: 1073741824, end_off: 2147483648, merge: 0, min_pfn: 1245184 bootmem::__reserve nid=1 start=170000 end=1b0000 flags=1 addr:ffff880170000000, paddr:0000000170000000, size: 1073741824 PANIC: early exception 06 rip 10:ffffffff807ce3b0 error 0 cr2 0 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc2-00166-gaeee90d-dirty #6 Call Trace: [<ffffffff807cccbe>] ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic+0x60/0x98 [<ffffffff807bc195>] early_idt_handler+0x55/0x69 [<ffffffff807ce3b0>] alloc_bootmem_huge_page+0xa6/0xd9 [<ffffffff807ce39f>] alloc_bootmem_huge_page+0x95/0xd9 [<ffffffff807ce3fe>] hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages+0x1b/0x3a [<ffffffff807ce489>] hugetlb_nrpages_setup+0x6c/0x7a [<ffffffff807bc69e>] unknown_bootoption+0xdc/0x1e2 [<ffffffff802446d6>] parse_args+0x137/0x1f5 [<ffffffff807bc5c2>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1e2 [<ffffffff807bcb6e>] start_kernel+0x195/0x2b7 [<ffffffff807bc369>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe3/0xe7 RIP 0x10 The problem in alloc_bootmem_core is that it just guarantees proper alignment for the offset (sidx) from bdata->node_min_pfn. A simple (ugly) fix is to add bdata->node_min_pfn to sidx and friends. Patch is attached. The current code in alloc_bootmem_core is based on changes introduced with commit 5f2809e69c7128f86316048221cf45146f69a4a0 (bootmem: clean up alloc_bootmem_core). But I didn't check whether this commit introduced the problem. With attached patch the 1G huge page gets properly aligned on node 1: Linux version 2.6.27-rc2-00389-g10fec20-dirty ... ... Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000130000000 ... Bootmem setup node 1 0000000130000000-0000000230000000 ... Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda4 console=ttyS0,115200 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=0 huge pagesz=1G hugepages=3 bootmem_debug debug earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 bootmem::alloc_bootmem_core nid=0 size=40000000 [262144 pages] align=40000000 goal=0 limit=0 bootmem::__reserve nid=0 start=40000 end=80000 flags=1 bootmem::alloc_bootmem_core nid=0 size=40000000 [262144 pages] align=40000000 goal=0 limit=0 bootmem::__reserve nid=0 start=80000 end=c0000 flags=1 bootmem::alloc_bootmem_core nid=0 size=40000000 [262144 pages] align=40000000 goal=0 limit=0 bootmem::alloc_bootmem_core nid=0 size=40000000 [262144 pages] align=40000000 goal=0 limit=0 bootmem::alloc_bootmem_core nid=1 size=40000000 [262144 pages] align=40000000 goal=0 limit=0 bootmem::__reserve nid=1 start=140000 end=180000 flags=1 Initializing CPU#0 ... Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/bootmem.c | 21 +++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/bootmem.c~alloc_bootmem_core-fix-misaligned-allocation-of-1g-page mm/bootmem.c --- a/mm/bootmem.c~alloc_bootmem_core-fix-misaligned-allocation-of-1g-page +++ a/mm/bootmem.c @@ -441,8 +441,8 @@ static void * __init alloc_bootmem_core( else start = ALIGN(min, step); - sidx = start - bdata->node_min_pfn;; - midx = max - bdata->node_min_pfn; + sidx = start; + midx = max; if (bdata->hint_idx > sidx) { /* @@ -458,7 +458,10 @@ static void * __init alloc_bootmem_core( void *region; unsigned long eidx, i, start_off, end_off; find_block: - sidx = find_next_zero_bit(bdata->node_bootmem_map, midx, sidx); + sidx = find_next_zero_bit(bdata->node_bootmem_map, + midx - bdata->node_min_pfn, + sidx - bdata->node_min_pfn); + sidx += bdata->node_min_pfn; sidx = ALIGN(sidx, step); eidx = sidx + PFN_UP(size); @@ -466,7 +469,8 @@ find_block: break; for (i = sidx; i < eidx; i++) - if (test_bit(i, bdata->node_bootmem_map)) { + if (test_bit(i - bdata->node_min_pfn, + bdata->node_bootmem_map)) { sidx = ALIGN(i, step); if (sidx == i) sidx += step; @@ -474,16 +478,17 @@ find_block: } if (bdata->last_end_off && - PFN_DOWN(bdata->last_end_off) + 1 == sidx) + (PFN_DOWN(bdata->last_end_off) + 1) == + (sidx - bdata->node_min_pfn)) start_off = ALIGN(bdata->last_end_off, align); else - start_off = PFN_PHYS(sidx); + start_off = PFN_PHYS(sidx - bdata->node_min_pfn); - merge = PFN_DOWN(start_off) < sidx; + merge = PFN_DOWN(start_off) < (sidx - bdata->node_min_pfn); end_off = start_off + size; bdata->last_end_off = end_off; - bdata->hint_idx = PFN_UP(end_off); + bdata->hint_idx = PFN_UP(end_off + bdata->node_min_pfn); /* * Reserve the area now: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx are alloc_bootmem_core-fix-misaligned-allocation-of-1g-page.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html