Re: [PATCH v1] mm: relax deferred struct page requirements

[Pasha Tatashin <Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com>]

Thank you Jiri, I am studying it.

Pavel

On 8/24/18 3:44 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
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> On 08/24/2018, 09:32 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> On 06/19/2018, 09:56 PM, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 9:50 AM Pavel Tatashin
>>> <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 4:04 AM Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/21/2017, 08:24 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu 16-11-17 20:46:01, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
>>>>>>> There is no need to have ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT,
>>>>>>> as all the page initialization code is in common code.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, there is no need to depend on MEMORY_HOTPLUG, as initialization code
>>>>>>> does not really use hotplug memory functionality. So, we can remove this
>>>>>>> requirement as well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This patch allows to use deferred struct page initialization on all
>>>>>>> platforms with memblock allocator.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tested on x86, arm64, and sparc. Also, verified that code compiles on
>>>>>>> PPC with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG disabled.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is slight risk that we will encounter corner cases on some
>>>>>> architectures with weird memory layout/topology
>>>>>
>>>>> Which x86_32-pae seems to be. Many bad page state errors are emitted
>>>>> during boot when this patch is applied:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jiri,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for reporting this bug.
>>>>
>>>> Because 32-bit systems are limited in the maximum amount of physical
>>>> memory, they don't need deferred struct pages. So, we can add depends
>>>> on 64BIT to DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT in mm/Kconfig.
>>>>
>>>> However, before we do this, I want to try reproducing this problem and
>>>> root cause it, as it might expose a general problem that is not 32-bit
>>>> specific.
>>>
>>> Hi Jiri,
>>>
>>> Could you please attach your config and full qemu arguments that you
>>> used to reproduce this bug.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I seem I never replied. Attaching .config and the qemu cmdline:
>> $ qemu-kvm -m 2000 -hda /dev/null -kernel bzImage
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>> "-m 2000" is important to reproduce.
>>
>> If I disable CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT (which the patch allowed
>> to enable), the error goes away, of course.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
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