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bootmem/sparsemem: remove limit constraint in alloc_bootmem_section
authorNishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:34:07 +0000 (16:34 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:54:58 +0000 (17:54 -0700)
commitf5bf18fa22f8c41a13eb8762c7373eb3a93a7333
tree3da24eb0edae3563c1937088b72a413e7026fdec
parentf0cb3c76ae1ced85f9034480b1b24cd96530ec78
bootmem/sparsemem: remove limit constraint in alloc_bootmem_section

While testing AMS (Active Memory Sharing) / CMO (Cooperative Memory
Overcommit) on powerpc, we tripped the following:

  kernel BUG at mm/bootmem.c:483!
  cpu 0x0: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000000c03940]
      pc: c000000000a62bd8: .alloc_bootmem_core+0x90/0x39c
      lr: c000000000a64bcc: .sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node+0x84/0x29c
      sp: c000000000c03bc0
     msr: 8000000000021032
    current = 0xc000000000b0cce0
    paca    = 0xc000000001d80000
      pid   = 0, comm = swapper
  kernel BUG at mm/bootmem.c:483!
  enter ? for help
  [c000000000c03c80c000000000a64bcc
  .sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node+0x84/0x29c
  [c000000000c03d50c000000000a64f10 .sparse_init+0x12c/0x28c
  [c000000000c03e20c000000000a474f4 .setup_arch+0x20c/0x294
  [c000000000c03ee0c000000000a4079c .start_kernel+0xb4/0x460
  [c000000000c03f90c000000000009670 .start_here_common+0x1c/0x2c

This is

        BUG_ON(limit && goal + size > limit);

and after some debugging, it seems that

goal = 0x7ffff000000
limit = 0x80000000000

and sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node ->
sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section calls

return alloc_bootmem_section(usemap_size() * count, section_nr);

This is on a system with 8TB available via the AMS pool, and as a quirk
of AMS in firmware, all of that memory shows up in node 0.  So, we end
up with an allocation that will fail the goal/limit constraints.

In theory, we could "fall-back" to alloc_bootmem_node() in
sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node(), but since we actually have HOTREMOVE
defined, we'll BUG_ON() instead.  A simple solution appears to be to
unconditionally remove the limit condition in alloc_bootmem_section,
meaning allocations are allowed to cross section boundaries (necessary
for systems of this size).

Johannes Weiner pointed out that if alloc_bootmem_section() no longer
guarantees section-locality, we need check_usemap_section_nr() to print
possible cross-dependencies between node descriptors and the usemaps
allocated through it.  That makes the two loops in
sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node() identical, so re-factor the code a
bit.

[[email protected]: code simplification]
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Jennings <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [3.3.1]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/bootmem.c
mm/sparse.c
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