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From: "Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>
To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Cc: "Wulizhen (Pss)" <pss.wulizhen@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm:bugfix, pfn_valid sometimes return incorrect when memmap parameter specified
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 05:35:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <615092B2FD0E7648B6E4B43E029BCFB852D66798@SZXEMA503-MBS.china.huawei.com> (raw)

In sparse memory mode, I add "memmap = 200M$0x1033800000" into menu.lst,
then I found the information in /proc/iomem is shown as:
.................
fee00000-fee00fff : Local APIC
  fee00000-fee00fff : reserved
    fee00000-fee00fff : pnp 00:08
fff00000-ffffffff : reserved
100000000-10337fffff : System RAM
1033800000-103fffffff : reserved
the return value of function pfn_valid, which checks whether pfn 0x1033800 is valid,
is non-zero.Thus, it will thereafter run the function PageReserved(), which returns 0,
I think the return value of 0 is wrong, as that pfn 0x1033800 is actually reserved.
I probed further, and found that: the section [0x1033000000~0x1033AFFFFFF], including
pfn 0x1033800, is initialized during kernel starting up. However, the page sturctures
corresponding to that section are just partially initialzed,
known as [0x1033000000~(max_pfn -1)](max_pfn = 0x1033800). Which means that, pfn 0x1033800
is valid(as function pfn_valid tells), but its related page structures are not initialized,
which results in the problem shown above: pfn 0x1033800 is of type reserved, but the function
PageReserved shows that it's not.

i think in the funtion of pfn_valid should be add a condition: pfn >= max_pfn.

Signed-off-by: Wulizhen <pss.wulizhen@huawei.com>
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 +-
 mm/nobootmem.c         | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 835aa3d..c54284b 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ static inline struct mem_section *__pfn_to_section(unsigned long pfn)
 #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
 static inline int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
 {
- if (pfn_to_section_nr(pfn) >= NR_MEM_SECTIONS)
+ if (pfn >= max_pfn || pfn_to_section_nr(pfn) >= NR_MEM_SECTIONS)
  return 0;
  return valid_section(__nr_to_section(pfn_to_section_nr(pfn)));
 }
diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c
index 04a9d94..7eb273e 100644
--- a/mm/nobootmem.c
+++ b/mm/nobootmem.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(contig_page_data);
 unsigned long max_low_pfn;
 unsigned long min_low_pfn;
 unsigned long max_pfn;
-
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(max_pfn);
 static void * __init __alloc_memory_core_early(int nid, u64 size, u64 align,
  u64 goal, u64 limit)
 {

             reply	other threads:[~2014-07-21  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-21  5:35 Huangpeng (Peter) [this message]
2014-07-21 22:46 ` David Rientjes

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