Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752103AbaAXHBV (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jan 2014 02:01:21 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39080 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752064AbaAXHBT (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jan 2014 02:01:19 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:04:27 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Santosh Shilimkar , Dave Hansen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Grygorii Strashko , Linux-MM , LKML , Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Panic on 8-node system in memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid() Message-Id: <20140123230427.e669f6b7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <52E19C7D.7050603@intel.com> <52E20A56.1000507@ti.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:57:08 -0800 Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Santosh Shilimkar > wrote: > > Yinghai, > > > > On Friday 24 January 2014 12:55 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > >>> > Linus's current tree doesn't boot on an 8-node/1TB NUMA system that I > >>> > have. Its reboots are *LONG*, so I haven't fully bisected it, but it's > >>> > down to a just a few commits, most of which are changes to the memblock > >>> > code. Since the panic is in the memblock code, it looks like a > >>> > no-brainer. It's almost certainly the code from Santosh or Grygorii > >>> > that's triggering this. > >>> > > >>> > Config and good/bad dmesg with memblock=debug are here: > >>> > > >>> > http://sr71.net/~dave/intel/3.13/ > >>> > > >>> > Please let me know if you need it bisected further than this. > >> Please check attached patch, and it should fix the problem. > >> > > > > [...] > > > >> > >> Subject: [PATCH] x86: Fix numa with reverting wrong memblock setting. > >> > >> Dave reported Numa on x86 is broken on system with 1T memory. > >> > >> It turns out > >> | commit 5b6e529521d35e1bcaa0fe43456d1bbb335cae5d > >> | Author: Santosh Shilimkar > >> | Date: Tue Jan 21 15:50:03 2014 -0800 > >> | > >> | x86: memblock: set current limit to max low memory address > >> > >> set limit to low wrongly. > >> > >> max_low_pfn_mapped is different from max_pfn_mapped. > >> max_low_pfn_mapped is always under 4G. > >> > >> That will memblock_alloc_nid all go under 4G. > >> > >> Revert that offending patch. > >> > >> Reported-by: Dave Hansen > >> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu > >> > >> > > This mostly will fix the $subject issue but the regression > > reported by Andrew [1] will surface with the revert. Its clear > > now that even though commit fixed the issue, it wasn't the fix. > > > > Would be great if you can have a look at the thread. > > >> [1] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1312.1/03770.html > > Andrew, > > Did you bisect which patch in that 23 patchset cause your system have problem? > Yes - it was caused by the patch which that email was replying to. "[PATCH v3 13/23] mm/lib/swiotlb: Use memblock apis for earlymemory allocations". -- 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/