[PATCH 4.6 16/96] mm, meminit: always return a valid node from early_pfn_to_nid

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4.6-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit e4568d3803852d00effd41dcdd489e726b998879 upstream.

early_pfn_to_nid can return node 0 if a PFN is invalid on machines that
has no node 0.  A machine with only node 1 was observed to crash with
the following message:

   BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000002a3c8
   PGD 0
   Modules linked in:
   Hardware name: Supermicro H8DSP-8/H8DSP-8, BIOS 080011  06/30/2006
   task: ffffffff81c0d500 ti: ffffffff81c00000 task.ti: ffffffff81c00000
   RIP: reserve_bootmem_region+0x6a/0xef
   CR2: 000000000002a3c8 CR3: 0000000001c06000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
   Call Trace:
      free_all_bootmem+0x4b/0x12a
      mem_init+0x70/0xa3
      start_kernel+0x25b/0x49b

The problem is that early_page_uninitialised uses the early_pfn_to_nid
helper which returns node 0 for invalid PFNs.  No caller of
early_pfn_to_nid cares except early_page_uninitialised.  This patch has
early_pfn_to_nid always return a valid node.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468008031-3848-3-git-send-email-mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 mm/page_alloc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ int __meminit early_pfn_to_nid(unsigned
 	spin_lock(&early_pfn_lock);
 	nid = __early_pfn_to_nid(pfn, &early_pfnnid_cache);
 	if (nid < 0)
-		nid = 0;
+		nid = first_online_node;
 	spin_unlock(&early_pfn_lock);
 
 	return nid;


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