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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 21:34:51 +0300
From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: riscv32 EXT4 splat, 6.8 regression?
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 06:00:29PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 07:31:54PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > @@ -238,17 +237,9 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
> > >  	/*
> > >  	 * memblock allocator is not aware of the fact that last 4K bytes of
> > >  	 * the addressable memory can not be mapped because of IS_ERR_VALUE
> > > -	 * macro. Make sure that last 4k bytes are not usable by memblock
> > > -	 * if end of dram is equal to maximum addressable memory.  For 64-bit
> > > -	 * kernel, this problem can't happen here as the end of the virtual
> > > -	 * address space is occupied by the kernel mapping then this check must
> > > -	 * be done as soon as the kernel mapping base address is determined.
> > > +	 * macro. Make sure that last 4k bytes are not usable by memblock.
> > >  	 */
> > 
> > It's not only memblock, but buddy as well, so maybe
> > 
> > 	/*
> > 	 * The last 4K bytes of the addressable memory can not be used
> > 	 * because of IS_ERR_VALUE macro. Make sure that last 4K bytes are
> > 	 * not usable by kernel memory allocators.
> > 	 */
> > 
> > > -	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT)) {
> > > -		max_mapped_addr = __pa(~(ulong)0);
> > > -		if (max_mapped_addr == (phys_ram_end - 1))
> > > -			memblock_set_current_limit(max_mapped_addr - 4096);
> > > -	}
> > > +	memblock_reserve(__pa(-PAGE_SIZE), PAGE_SIZE);
> > 
> > Ack.
> 
> Can this go to generic code instead of letting architecture maintainers
> fall over it?

Yes, it's just have to happen before setup_arch() where most architectures
enable memblock allocations.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.