Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755894Ab3HSAsW (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:48:22 -0400 Received: from haggis.pcug.org.au ([203.10.76.10]:47357 "EHLO members.tip.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754731Ab3HSAsV (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:48:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:48:02 +1000 From: Stephen Rothwell To: Kevin Hilman Cc: Johannes Weiner , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , Andrea Arcangeli , Zlatko Calusic , Minchan Kim , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Olof Johansson , Stephen Warren Subject: Re: [patch v2 3/3] mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy Message-Id: <20130819104802.e5a8088d87ba81c5ad0d2a66@canb.auug.org.au> In-Reply-To: <8738q9b8xg.fsf@kernel.org> 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> <8738q9b8xg.fsf@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.0beta4 (GTK+ 2.24.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA256"; boundary="Signature=_Mon__19_Aug_2013_10_48_02_+1000_+Bohmn=Bt=ujKf6f" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3130 Lines: 81 --Signature=_Mon__19_Aug_2013_10_48_02_+1000_+Bohmn=Bt=ujKf6f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:52:11 -0700 Kevin Hilman wrote: > > Johannes Weiner writes: >=20 > > 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 allocatio= n batching > >> > > >> > Avoid dirtying the same cache line with every single page allocation > >> > by making the fair per-zone allocation batch a vmstat item, which wi= ll > >> > turn it into batched percpu counters on SMP. > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner > >>=20 > >> I bisected several boot failures on various ARM platform in > >> next-20130816 down to this patch (commit 67131f9837 in linux-next.) > >>=20 > >> Simply reverting it got things booting again on top of -next. Example > >> boot crash below. > > > > Thanks for the bisect and report! >=20 > You're welcome. Thanks for the quick fix! >=20 > > 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? >=20 > Yup, that change fixes it. >=20 > Tested-by: Kevin Hilman > Tested-by: Stephen Warren I will add that into the akpm-current tree in linux-next today (unless Andrew releases a new mmotm in the mean time). --=20 Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au --Signature=_Mon__19_Aug_2013_10_48_02_+1000_+Bohmn=Bt=ujKf6f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJSEWtGAAoJEECxmPOUX5FEhbsP/1k6qvkvyfiYRoQYuK+QUdHc GWwufxhiffuxrzkvD3vBfduG/fUzyyW6yOPAc5McJN31TCfvDsh8aLf4vd/j6kDX O+3GFNTDjIZHTPcUvqhEId9kc9x+WhqTShk4W4Cwo9/3P2hg/1Tq1qMEgwZEH5CT C7BbYdu2FULnGfdmsWmGcTDRPZNY8Ko4zYwvVkK2fYOtwY+ncUZEHTVccw06VqlV raexUVrYa/zxtggSTG6i3qo1cGWbRHR/AO2zIuxE5AVnqe0XhoW4KmRhEQ2mAkzx WJNfzx97/zojPrVOwwKaQs5aklK2F4ze8d0ge46qlMaMd1NRrqauiKJVkAU/uUDI 6bDoOJEiMnh8rOvkMhTa5jN131a+Lp0/L0uQ/sq29bsT4y6bBoPzeb3cGAOfcjSU oUO8odGJDoOGzvf3nEvsFyBgeYRDuY1EjWoYXM7lIYz7VPNTBGk7DbliAvFD1dVR kE41avq0EmdL5m54D+KNIWxBsm56V8pS5u68mxlC7ZKwyrm8gByqoAv0nV/8ofqB JzE6+gsNa3i1lI5PGOhwxG5JxAeWU+hxUHbstCNbv+7jHJs5t/2IK5nHhkerQHSj f79ONPYoCxgj3gGbeHYzVkghsrCkgI82PukQoel4mXfncbtHVRqxejhX389yh3ck MxJhLp/x1Qne4ddrVGRf =7HLW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Mon__19_Aug_2013_10_48_02_+1000_+Bohmn=Bt=ujKf6f-- -- 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/