Re: Panic on 8-node system in memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid()

[Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
> On 01/24/2014 10:13 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/24/2014 09:45 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>> Here you go.  It's still spitting out memblock_reserve messages to the
>>> console.  I'm not sure if it's making _some_ progress or not.
>>>
>>>         https://www.sr71.net/~dave/intel/3.13/dmesg.with-2-patches
>>>
>>> But, it's certainly not booting.  Do you want to see it without
>>> memblock=debug?
>>
>> that looks like different problem. and it can not set memory mapping properly.
>>
>> can you send me .config ?
>
> Here you go.
>
> FWIW, I did turn of memblock=debug.  It eventually booted, but
> slooooooooooowly.

then that is not a problem, as you are using 4k page mapping only.
and that printout is too spew...

>
> How many problems in this code are we tracking, btw?  This is at least
> 3, right?

two problems:
1. big numa system.
2. Andrew's system with swiotlb.

The two patches should address them.

Thanks

Yinghai

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