The patch titled mm: use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() on really needed path has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-use-alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic-on-really-needed-path.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() on really needed path From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> Stefan found nobootmem does not work on his system that has only 8M of RAM. This causes an early panic: (Red Hat 4.6.0-6) (GCC) ) #5 Thu May 5 21:49:09 CEST 2011 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000000840000 (usable) bootconsole [earlyser0] enabled Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection missing in CPU or disabled in BIOS! DMI not present or invalid. last_pfn = 0x840 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000 init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000000840000 8MB LOWMEM available. mapped low ram: 0 - 00840000 low ram: 0 - 00840000 Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0x00000001 -> 0x00001000 Normal empty Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges 0: 0x00000001 -> 0x0000009f 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x00000840 BUG: Int 6: CR2 (null) EDI c034663c ESI (null) EBP c0329f38 ESP c0329ef4 EBX c0346380 EDX 00000006 ECX ffffffff EAX fffffff4 err (null) EIP c0353191 CS c0320060 flg 00010082 Stack: (null) c030c533 000007cd (null) c030c533 00000001 (null) (null) 00000003 0000083f 00000018 00000002 00000002 c0329f6c c03534d6 (null) (null) 00000100 00000840 (null) c0329f64 00000001 00001000 (null) Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36 #5 Call Trace: [<c02e3707>] ? 0xc02e3707 [<c035e6e5>] 0xc035e6e5 [<c0353191>] ? 0xc0353191 [<c03534d6>] 0xc03534d6 [<c034f1cd>] 0xc034f1cd [<c034a824>] 0xc034a824 [<c03513cb>] ? 0xc03513cb [<c0349432>] 0xc0349432 [<c0349066>] 0xc0349066 It turns out that we should ignore the low limit of 16M. Use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() in this case. [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: less mess] Signed-off-by: Yinghai LU <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Stefan Hellermann <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Stefan Hellermann <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.34+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/bootmem.h | 2 ++ mm/page_alloc.c | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/bootmem.h~mm-use-alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic-on-really-needed-path include/linux/bootmem.h --- a/include/linux/bootmem.h~mm-use-alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic-on-really-needed-path +++ a/include/linux/bootmem.h @@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ extern void *__alloc_bootmem_low_node(pg __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(x, PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)) #define alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, x) \ __alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)) +#define alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, x) \ + __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)) #define alloc_bootmem_pages_node(pgdat, x) \ __alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, x, PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)) #define alloc_bootmem_pages_node_nopanic(pgdat, x) \ diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-use-alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic-on-really-needed-path mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-use-alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic-on-really-needed-path +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3564,7 +3564,7 @@ int zone_wait_table_init(struct zone *zo if (!slab_is_available()) { zone->wait_table = (wait_queue_head_t *) - alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, alloc_size); + alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, alloc_size); } else { /* * This case means that a zone whose size was 0 gets new memory @@ -4141,7 +4141,8 @@ static void __init setup_usemap(struct p unsigned long usemapsize = usemap_size(zonesize); zone->pageblock_flags = NULL; if (usemapsize) - zone->pageblock_flags = alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, usemapsize); + zone->pageblock_flags = alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, + usemapsize); } #else static inline void setup_usemap(struct pglist_data *pgdat, @@ -4307,7 +4308,7 @@ static void __init_refok alloc_node_mem_ size = (end - start) * sizeof(struct page); map = alloc_remap(pgdat->node_id, size); if (!map) - map = alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, size); + map = alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, size); pgdat->node_mem_map = map + (pgdat->node_start_pfn - start); } #ifndef CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch pci-dmar-update-dmar-units-devices-list-during-hotplug.patch memblock-nobootmem-allow-alloc_bootmem-to-take-0-as-low-limit.patch memblock-nobootmem-remove-code-for-alloc_bootmem_node_high.patch memblock-add-error-return-when-config_have_memblock-is-not-set.patch memblock-add-input-size-checking-to-memblock_find_region.patch memblock-add-input-size-checking-to-memblock_find_region-fix.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