Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mm/page_alloc: fix memmap_init_zone pageblock alignment

[Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>]

On 12 March 2018 at 22:21, Daniel Vacek <neelx@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Naresh Kamboju
> <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 12 March 2018 at 17:56, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I couldn't find the exact mail corresponding to the patch merged in v4.16-rc5
>>> but commit 864b75f9d6b01 "mm/page_alloc: fix memmap_init_zone
>>> pageblock alignment"
>>> cause boot hang on my ARM64 platform.
>>
>> I have also noticed this problem on hi6220 Hikey - arm64.
>>
>> LKFT: linux-next: Hikey boot failed linux-next-20180308
>> https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3676
>>
>> - Naresh
>>
>>>
>>> Log:
>>> [    0.000000] NUMA: No NUMA configuration found
>>> [    0.000000] NUMA: Faking a node at [mem
>>> 0x0000000000000000-0x00000009ffffffff]
>>> [    0.000000] NUMA: NODE_DATA [mem 0x9fffcb480-0x9fffccf7f]
>>> [    0.000000] Zone ranges:
>>> [    0.000000]   DMA32    [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000ffffffff]
>>> [    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x00000009ffffffff]
>>> [    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
>>> [    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000f8f9afff]
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000f8f9b000-0x00000000f908ffff]
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000f9090000-0x00000000f914ffff]
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000f9150000-0x00000000f920ffff]
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000f9210000-0x00000000f922ffff]
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000f9230000-0x00000000f95bffff]
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000f95c0000-0x00000000fe58ffff]
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000fe590000-0x00000000fe5cffff]
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000fe5d0000-0x00000000fe5dffff]
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000fe5e0000-0x00000000fe62ffff]
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000fe630000-0x00000000feffffff]
>>> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000880000000-0x00000009ffffffff]
>>> [    0.000000]  Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000009ffffffff]
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 1:08 AM, Daniel Vacek <neelx@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 1:40 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This makes me wonder whether a -stable backport is really needed...
>>>>
>>>> For some machines it definitely is. Won't hurt either, IMHO.
>>>>
>>>> --nX
>
> Hmm, does it step back perhaps?
>
> Can you check if below cures the boot hang?
>
> --nX
>
> ~~~~
> neelx@metal:~/nX/src/linux$ git diff
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 3d974cb2a1a1..415571120bbd 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -5365,8 +5365,10 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long
> size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
>                          * the valid region but still depends on correct page
>                          * metadata.
>                          */
> -                       pfn = (memblock_next_valid_pfn(pfn, end_pfn) &
> +                       unsigned long next_pfn;
> +                       next_pfn = (memblock_next_valid_pfn(pfn, end_pfn) &
>                                         ~(pageblock_nr_pages-1)) - 1;
> +                       pfn = max(next_pfn, pfn);
>  #endif
>                         continue;
>                 }

After applying this patch on linux-next the boot hang problem resolved.
Now the hi6220-hikey is booting successfully.
Thank you.

- Naresh

> ~~~~