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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/mm.h, branch v3.1-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'apei' into apei-release</title>
<updated>2011-08-03T15:30:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-03T15:30:42+00:00</published>
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Some trivial conflicts due to other various merges
adding to the end of common lists sooner than this one.

	arch/ia64/Kconfig
	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/x86/Kconfig
	lib/Kconfig
	lib/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Some trivial conflicts due to other various merges
adding to the end of common lists sooner than this one.

	arch/ia64/Kconfig
	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/x86/Kconfig
	lib/Kconfig
	lib/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>HWPoison: add memory_failure_queue()</title>
<updated>2011-08-03T15:15:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-13T05:14:27+00:00</published>
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memory_failure() is the entry point for HWPoison memory error
recovery.  It must be called in process context.  But commonly
hardware memory errors are notified via MCE or NMI, so some delayed
execution mechanism must be used.  In MCE handler, a work queue + ring
buffer mechanism is used.

In addition to MCE, now APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interface) GHES
(Generic Hardware Error Source) can be used to report memory errors
too.  To add support to APEI GHES memory recovery, a mechanism similar
to that of MCE is implemented.  memory_failure_queue() is the new
entry point that can be called in IRQ context.  The next step is to
make MCE handler uses this interface too.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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memory_failure() is the entry point for HWPoison memory error
recovery.  It must be called in process context.  But commonly
hardware memory errors are notified via MCE or NMI, so some delayed
execution mechanism must be used.  In MCE handler, a work queue + ring
buffer mechanism is used.

In addition to MCE, now APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interface) GHES
(Generic Hardware Error Source) can be used to report memory errors
too.  To add support to APEI GHES memory recovery, a mechanism similar
to that of MCE is implemented.  memory_failure_queue() is the new
entry point that can be called in IRQ context.  The next step is to
make MCE handler uses this interface too.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/futex: fix futex writes on archs with SW tracking of dirty &amp; young</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T03:57:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T00:12:32+00:00</published>
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I haven't reproduced it myself but the fail scenario is that on such
machines (notably ARM and some embedded powerpc), if you manage to hit
that futex path on a writable page whose dirty bit has gone from the PTE,
you'll livelock inside the kernel from what I can tell.

It will go in a loop of trying the atomic access, failing, trying gup to
"fix it up", getting succcess from gup, go back to the atomic access,
failing again because dirty wasn't fixed etc...

So I think you essentially hang in the kernel.

The scenario is probably rare'ish because affected architecture are
embedded and tend to not swap much (if at all) so we probably rarely hit
the case where dirty is missing or young is missing, but I think Shan has
a piece of SW that can reliably reproduce it using a shared writable
mapping &amp; fork or something like that.

On archs who use SW tracking of dirty &amp; young, a page without dirty is
effectively mapped read-only and a page without young unaccessible in the
PTE.

Additionally, some architectures might lazily flush the TLB when relaxing
write protection (by doing only a local flush), and expect a fault to
invalidate the stale entry if it's still present on another processor.

The futex code assumes that if the "in_atomic()" access -EFAULT's, it can
"fix it up" by causing get_user_pages() which would then be equivalent to
taking the fault.

However that isn't the case.  get_user_pages() will not call
handle_mm_fault() in the case where the PTE seems to have the right
permissions, regardless of the dirty and young state.  It will eventually
update those bits ...  in the struct page, but not in the PTE.

Additionally, it will not handle the lazy TLB flushing that can be
required by some architectures in the fault case.

Basically, gup is the wrong interface for the job.  The patch provides a
more appropriate one which boils down to just calling handle_mm_fault()
since what we are trying to do is simulate a real page fault.

The futex code currently attempts to write to user memory within a
pagefault disabled section, and if that fails, tries to fix it up using
get_user_pages().

This doesn't work on archs where the dirty and young bits are maintained
by software, since they will gate access permission in the TLB, and will
not be updated by gup().

In addition, there's an expectation on some archs that a spurious write
fault triggers a local TLB flush, and that is missing from the picture as
well.

I decided that adding those "features" to gup() would be too much for this
already too complex function, and instead added a new simpler
fixup_user_fault() which is essentially a wrapper around handle_mm_fault()
which the futex code can call.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix some nits Darren saw, fiddle comment layout]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Reported-by: Shan Hai &lt;haishan.bai@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shan Hai &lt;haishan.bai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Darren Hart &lt;darren.hart@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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I haven't reproduced it myself but the fail scenario is that on such
machines (notably ARM and some embedded powerpc), if you manage to hit
that futex path on a writable page whose dirty bit has gone from the PTE,
you'll livelock inside the kernel from what I can tell.

It will go in a loop of trying the atomic access, failing, trying gup to
"fix it up", getting succcess from gup, go back to the atomic access,
failing again because dirty wasn't fixed etc...

So I think you essentially hang in the kernel.

The scenario is probably rare'ish because affected architecture are
embedded and tend to not swap much (if at all) so we probably rarely hit
the case where dirty is missing or young is missing, but I think Shan has
a piece of SW that can reliably reproduce it using a shared writable
mapping &amp; fork or something like that.

On archs who use SW tracking of dirty &amp; young, a page without dirty is
effectively mapped read-only and a page without young unaccessible in the
PTE.

Additionally, some architectures might lazily flush the TLB when relaxing
write protection (by doing only a local flush), and expect a fault to
invalidate the stale entry if it's still present on another processor.

The futex code assumes that if the "in_atomic()" access -EFAULT's, it can
"fix it up" by causing get_user_pages() which would then be equivalent to
taking the fault.

However that isn't the case.  get_user_pages() will not call
handle_mm_fault() in the case where the PTE seems to have the right
permissions, regardless of the dirty and young state.  It will eventually
update those bits ...  in the struct page, but not in the PTE.

Additionally, it will not handle the lazy TLB flushing that can be
required by some architectures in the fault case.

Basically, gup is the wrong interface for the job.  The patch provides a
more appropriate one which boils down to just calling handle_mm_fault()
since what we are trying to do is simulate a real page fault.

The futex code currently attempts to write to user memory within a
pagefault disabled section, and if that fails, tries to fix it up using
get_user_pages().

This doesn't work on archs where the dirty and young bits are maintained
by software, since they will gate access permission in the TLB, and will
not be updated by gup().

In addition, there's an expectation on some archs that a spurious write
fault triggers a local TLB flush, and that is missing from the picture as
well.

I decided that adding those "features" to gup() would be too much for this
already too complex function, and instead added a new simpler
fixup_user_fault() which is essentially a wrapper around handle_mm_fault()
which the futex code can call.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix some nits Darren saw, fiddle comment layout]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Reported-by: Shan Hai &lt;haishan.bai@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shan Hai &lt;haishan.bai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Darren Hart &lt;darren.hart@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: truncate functions are in truncate.c</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T03:57:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T00:12:23+00:00</published>
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Correct comment on truncate_inode_pages*() in linux/mm.h; and remove
declaration of page_unuse(), it didn't exist even in 2.2.26 or 2.4.0!

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Correct comment on truncate_inode_pages*() in linux/mm.h; and remove
declaration of page_unuse(), it didn't exist even in 2.2.26 or 2.4.0!

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pagewalk: add locking-rule comments</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T03:57:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T00:12:10+00:00</published>
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Originally, walk_hugetlb_range() didn't require a caller take any lock.
But commit d33b9f45bd ("mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in
walk_page_range") changed its rule.  Because it added find_vma() call in
walk_hugetlb_range().

Any locking-rule change commit should write a doc too.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify comment]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa &lt;kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Originally, walk_hugetlb_range() didn't require a caller take any lock.
But commit d33b9f45bd ("mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in
walk_page_range") changed its rule.  Because it added find_vma() call in
walk_hugetlb_range().

Any locking-rule change commit should write a doc too.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify comment]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa &lt;kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: make some struct page's const</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T03:57:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Campbell</name>
<email>ian.campbell@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T00:11:51+00:00</published>
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These uses are read-only and in a subsequent patch I have a const struct
page in my hand...

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings in lowmem_page_address()]
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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These uses are read-only and in a subsequent patch I have a const struct
page in my hand...

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings in lowmem_page_address()]
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-07-23T02:02:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-23T02:02:39+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (107 commits)
  vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp
  isofs: Remove global fs lock
  jffs2: fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() killing a directory
  fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al.
  mm/truncate.c: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled
  fs:update the NOTE of the file_operations structure
  Remove dead code in dget_parent()
  AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment
  switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well
  simplify gfs2_lookup()
  jfs_lookup(): don't bother with . or ..
  get rid of useless dget_parent() in btrfs rename() and link()
  get rid of useless dget_parent() in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
  fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into -&gt;fsync() handlers
  drivers: fix up various -&gt;llseek() implementations
  fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek
  Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically
  Btrfs: implement our own -&gt;llseek
  fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags
  reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c due to the new
shrinker callout for the inode cache, that clashed with the xfs code to
start the periodic workers later.
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (107 commits)
  vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp
  isofs: Remove global fs lock
  jffs2: fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() killing a directory
  fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al.
  mm/truncate.c: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled
  fs:update the NOTE of the file_operations structure
  Remove dead code in dget_parent()
  AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment
  switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well
  simplify gfs2_lookup()
  jfs_lookup(): don't bother with . or ..
  get rid of useless dget_parent() in btrfs rename() and link()
  get rid of useless dget_parent() in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
  fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into -&gt;fsync() handlers
  drivers: fix up various -&gt;llseek() implementations
  fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek
  Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically
  Btrfs: implement our own -&gt;llseek
  fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags
  reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c due to the new
shrinker callout for the inode cache, that clashed with the xfs code to
start the periodic workers later.
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>superblock: introduce per-sb cache shrinker infrastructure</title>
<updated>2011-07-21T00:47:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-08T04:14:42+00:00</published>
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With context based shrinkers, we can implement a per-superblock
shrinker that shrinks the caches attached to the superblock. We
currently have global shrinkers for the inode and dentry caches that
split up into per-superblock operations via a coarse proportioning
method that does not batch very well.  The global shrinkers also
have a dependency - dentries pin inodes - so we have to be very
careful about how we register the global shrinkers so that the
implicit call order is always correct.

With a per-sb shrinker callout, we can encode this dependency
directly into the per-sb shrinker, hence avoiding the need for
strictly ordering shrinker registrations. We also have no need for
any proportioning code for the shrinker subsystem already provides
this functionality across all shrinkers. Allowing the shrinker to
operate on a single superblock at a time means that we do less
superblock list traversals and locking and reclaim should batch more
effectively. This should result in less CPU overhead for reclaim and
potentially faster reclaim of items from each filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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With context based shrinkers, we can implement a per-superblock
shrinker that shrinks the caches attached to the superblock. We
currently have global shrinkers for the inode and dentry caches that
split up into per-superblock operations via a coarse proportioning
method that does not batch very well.  The global shrinkers also
have a dependency - dentries pin inodes - so we have to be very
careful about how we register the global shrinkers so that the
implicit call order is always correct.

With a per-sb shrinker callout, we can encode this dependency
directly into the per-sb shrinker, hence avoiding the need for
strictly ordering shrinker registrations. We also have no need for
any proportioning code for the shrinker subsystem already provides
this functionality across all shrinkers. Allowing the shrinker to
operate on a single superblock at a time means that we do less
superblock list traversals and locking and reclaim should batch more
effectively. This should result in less CPU overhead for reclaim and
potentially faster reclaim of items from each filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmscan: add customisable shrinker batch size</title>
<updated>2011-07-20T05:44:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-08T04:14:37+00:00</published>
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For shrinkers that have their own cond_resched* calls, having
shrink_slab break the work down into small batches is not
paticularly efficient. Add a custom batchsize field to the struct
shrinker so that shrinkers can use a larger batch size if they
desire.

A value of zero (uninitialised) means "use the default", so
behaviour is unchanged by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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For shrinkers that have their own cond_resched* calls, having
shrink_slab break the work down into small batches is not
paticularly efficient. Add a custom batchsize field to the struct
shrinker so that shrinkers can use a larger batch size if they
desire.

A value of zero (uninitialised) means "use the default", so
behaviour is unchanged by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>x86, numa: Implement pfn -&gt; nid mapping granularity check</title>
<updated>2011-07-13T04:58:29+00:00</updated>
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<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2011-07-12T07:45:34+00:00</published>
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SPARSEMEM w/o VMEMMAP and DISCONTIGMEM, both used only on 32bit, use
sections array to map pfn to nid which is limited in granularity.  If
NUMA nodes are laid out such that the mapping cannot be accurate, boot
will fail triggering BUG_ON() in mminit_verify_page_links().

On 32bit, it's 512MiB w/ PAE and SPARSEMEM.  This seems to have been
granular enough until commit 2706a0bf7b (x86, NUMA: Enable
CONFIG_AMD_NUMA on 32bit too).  Apparently, there is a machine which
aligns NUMA nodes to 128MiB and has only AMD NUMA but not SRAT.  This
led to the following BUG_ON().

 On node 0 totalpages: 2096615
   DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
   DMA zone: 3927 pages, LIFO batch:0
   Normal zone: 1740 pages used for memmap
   Normal zone: 220978 pages, LIFO batch:31
   HighMem zone: 16405 pages used for memmap
   HighMem zone: 1853533 pages, LIFO batch:31
 BUG: Int 6: CR2   (null)
      EDI   (null)  ESI 00000002  EBP 00000002  ESP c1543ecc
      EBX f2400000  EDX 00000006  ECX   (null)  EAX 00000001
      err   (null)  EIP c16209aa   CS 00000060  flg 00010002
 Stack: f2400000 00220000 f7200800 c1620613 00220000 01000000 04400000 00238000
          (null) f7200000 00000002 f7200b58 f7200800 c1620929 000375fe   (null)
        f7200b80 c16395f0 00200a02 f7200a80   (null) 000375fe 00000002   (null)
 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.39-rc5-00181-g2706a0b #17
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;c136b1e5&gt;] ? early_fault+0x2e/0x2e
  [&lt;c16209aa&gt;] ? mminit_verify_page_links+0x12/0x42
  [&lt;c1620613&gt;] ? memmap_init_zone+0xaf/0x10c
  [&lt;c1620929&gt;] ? free_area_init_node+0x2b9/0x2e3
  [&lt;c1607e99&gt;] ? free_area_init_nodes+0x3f2/0x451
  [&lt;c1601d80&gt;] ? paging_init+0x112/0x118
  [&lt;c15f578d&gt;] ? setup_arch+0x791/0x82f
  [&lt;c15f43d9&gt;] ? start_kernel+0x6a/0x257

This patch implements node_map_pfn_alignment() which determines
maximum internode alignment and update numa_register_memblks() to
reject NUMA configuration if alignment exceeds the pfn -&gt; nid mapping
granularity of the memory model as determined by PAGES_PER_SECTION.

This makes the problematic machine boot w/ flatmem by rejecting the
NUMA config and provides protection against crazy NUMA configurations.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110712074534.GB2872@htj.dyndns.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110628174613.GP478@escobedo.osrc.amd.com&gt;
Reported-and-Tested-by: Hans Rosenfeld &lt;hans.rosenfeld@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Conny Seidel &lt;conny.seidel@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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SPARSEMEM w/o VMEMMAP and DISCONTIGMEM, both used only on 32bit, use
sections array to map pfn to nid which is limited in granularity.  If
NUMA nodes are laid out such that the mapping cannot be accurate, boot
will fail triggering BUG_ON() in mminit_verify_page_links().

On 32bit, it's 512MiB w/ PAE and SPARSEMEM.  This seems to have been
granular enough until commit 2706a0bf7b (x86, NUMA: Enable
CONFIG_AMD_NUMA on 32bit too).  Apparently, there is a machine which
aligns NUMA nodes to 128MiB and has only AMD NUMA but not SRAT.  This
led to the following BUG_ON().

 On node 0 totalpages: 2096615
   DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
   DMA zone: 3927 pages, LIFO batch:0
   Normal zone: 1740 pages used for memmap
   Normal zone: 220978 pages, LIFO batch:31
   HighMem zone: 16405 pages used for memmap
   HighMem zone: 1853533 pages, LIFO batch:31
 BUG: Int 6: CR2   (null)
      EDI   (null)  ESI 00000002  EBP 00000002  ESP c1543ecc
      EBX f2400000  EDX 00000006  ECX   (null)  EAX 00000001
      err   (null)  EIP c16209aa   CS 00000060  flg 00010002
 Stack: f2400000 00220000 f7200800 c1620613 00220000 01000000 04400000 00238000
          (null) f7200000 00000002 f7200b58 f7200800 c1620929 000375fe   (null)
        f7200b80 c16395f0 00200a02 f7200a80   (null) 000375fe 00000002   (null)
 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.39-rc5-00181-g2706a0b #17
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;c136b1e5&gt;] ? early_fault+0x2e/0x2e
  [&lt;c16209aa&gt;] ? mminit_verify_page_links+0x12/0x42
  [&lt;c1620613&gt;] ? memmap_init_zone+0xaf/0x10c
  [&lt;c1620929&gt;] ? free_area_init_node+0x2b9/0x2e3
  [&lt;c1607e99&gt;] ? free_area_init_nodes+0x3f2/0x451
  [&lt;c1601d80&gt;] ? paging_init+0x112/0x118
  [&lt;c15f578d&gt;] ? setup_arch+0x791/0x82f
  [&lt;c15f43d9&gt;] ? start_kernel+0x6a/0x257

This patch implements node_map_pfn_alignment() which determines
maximum internode alignment and update numa_register_memblks() to
reject NUMA configuration if alignment exceeds the pfn -&gt; nid mapping
granularity of the memory model as determined by PAGES_PER_SECTION.

This makes the problematic machine boot w/ flatmem by rejecting the
NUMA config and provides protection against crazy NUMA configurations.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110712074534.GB2872@htj.dyndns.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110628174613.GP478@escobedo.osrc.amd.com&gt;
Reported-and-Tested-by: Hans Rosenfeld &lt;hans.rosenfeld@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Conny Seidel &lt;conny.seidel@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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