Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754265Ab3HPW2K (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:28:10 -0400 Received: from avon.wwwdotorg.org ([70.85.31.133]:43419 "EHLO avon.wwwdotorg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752089Ab3HPW2I (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:28:08 -0400 Message-ID: <520E9898.7040107@wwwdotorg.org> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:24:40 -0600 From: Stephen Warren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Weiner CC: Kevin Hilman , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , Andrea Arcangeli , Zlatko Calusic , Minchan Kim , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "sfr@canb.auug.org.au linux-arm-kernel" , Olof Johansson Subject: Re: [patch v2 3/3] mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy References: <1375457846-21521-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <1375457846-21521-4-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <20130807145828.GQ2296@suse.de> <20130807153743.GH715@cmpxchg.org> <20130808041623.GL1845@cmpxchg.org> <87haepblo2.fsf@kernel.org> <20130816201814.GA26409@cmpxchg.org> In-Reply-To: <20130816201814.GA26409@cmpxchg.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1487 Lines: 36 On 08/16/2013 02:18 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:17:01AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote: >> Johannes Weiner writes: >>> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 11:37:43AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: >>> Subject: [patch] mm: page_alloc: use vmstats for fair zone allocation batching >>> >>> Avoid dirtying the same cache line with every single page allocation >>> by making the fair per-zone allocation batch a vmstat item, which will >>> turn it into batched percpu counters on SMP. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner >> >> I bisected several boot failures on various ARM platform in >> next-20130816 down to this patch (commit 67131f9837 in linux-next.) >> >> Simply reverting it got things booting again on top of -next. Example >> boot crash below. > > Thanks for the bisect and report! > > I deref the percpu pointers before initializing them properly. It > didn't trigger on x86 because the percpu offset added to the pointer > is big enough so that it does not fall into PFN 0, but it probably > ended up corrupting something... > > Could you try this patch on top of linux-next instead of the revert? That patch, Tested-by: Stephen Warren -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/