Hello Geert, Mike On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 06:53:10PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > Hi Geert, > > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 04:56:39PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi Serge, > > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 12:50 AM Serge Semin <fancer.lan...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > The reserved_end variable had been used by the bootmem_init() code > > > to find a lowest limit of memory available for memmap blob. The original > > > code just tried to find a free memory space higher than kernel was placed. > > > This limitation seems justified for the memmap ragion search process, but > > > I can't see any obvious reason to reserve the unused space below kernel > > > seeing some platforms place it much higher than standard 1MB. Moreover > > > the RELOCATION config enables it to be loaded at any memory address. > > > So lets reserve the memory occupied by the kernel only, leaving the region > > > below being free for allocations. After doing this we can now discard the > > > code freeing a space between kernel _text and VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS symbols > > > since it's going to be free anyway (unless marked as reserved by > > > platforms). > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lan...@gmail.com> > > > > This is now commit b93ddc4f9156205e ("mips: Reserve memory for the kernel > > image resources") in v5.2-rc1, which causes rbtx4927 to crash during boot: > > > > VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) on device 0:13. > > devtmpfs: mounted > > BUG: Bad page state in process swapper pfn:00001 > > page:804b7820 refcount:0 mapcount:-128 mapping:00000000 index:0x1 > > flags: 0x0() > > raw: 00000000 00000100 00000200 00000000 00000001 00000000 ffffff7f > > 00000000 > > page dumped because: nonzero mapcount > > Modules linked in: > > CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted > > 5.2.0-rc1-rbtx4927-00468-g3c05ea3d4077b756-dirty #137 > > Stack : 00000000 10008400 8040dd2c 87c1b974 8044af63 8040dd2c > > 00000001 804a3490 > > 00000001 81000000 0030f231 80148558 00000003 10008400 > > 87c1dd80 7599ee13 > > 00000000 00000000 804b0000 00000000 00000007 00000000 > > 00000085 00000000 > > 62722d31 00000084 804b0000 39347874 00000000 804b7820 > > 8040cef8 81000010 > > 00000001 00000007 00000001 81000000 00000008 8021de24 > > 00000000 804a0000 > > ... > > Call Trace: > > [<8010adec>] show_stack+0x74/0x104 > > [<801a5e44>] bad_page+0x130/0x138 > > [<801a654c>] free_pcppages_bulk+0x17c/0x3b0 > > [<801a789c>] free_unref_page+0x40/0x68 > > [<801120f4>] free_init_pages+0xec/0x104 > > [<803bdde8>] free_initmem+0x10/0x58 > > [<803bdb8c>] kernel_init+0x20/0x100 > > [<801057c8>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c > > Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint > > BUG: Bad page state in process swapper pfn:00002 > > [...] > >
The root cause of the problem most likely is in prom_free_prom_memory() method of arch/mips/txx9/generic/setup.c: void __init prom_free_prom_memory(void) { unsigned long saddr = PAGE_SIZE; unsigned long eaddr = __pa_symbol(&_text); if (saddr < eaddr) free_init_pages("prom memory", saddr, eaddr); } As you can see the txx9 platform tries to free a memory which isn't reserved and set free from the very beginning due to the patch above. So as soon as you remove the free_init_pages("prom memory", ...) the problem shall be fixed. Could you try it and send a result to us whether it helped? Regards, -Sergey > > CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is not set, so the only relevant part is the > > change quoted below. > > > > > --- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c > > > +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c > > > @@ -371,7 +371,6 @@ static void __init bootmem_init(void) > > > > > > static void __init bootmem_init(void) > > > { > > > - unsigned long reserved_end; > > > phys_addr_t ramstart = PHYS_ADDR_MAX; > > > int i; > > > > > > @@ -382,10 +381,10 @@ static void __init bootmem_init(void) > > > * will reserve the area used for the initrd. > > > */ > > > init_initrd(); > > > - reserved_end = (unsigned long) PFN_UP(__pa_symbol(&_end)); > > > > > > - memblock_reserve(PHYS_OFFSET, > > > - (reserved_end << PAGE_SHIFT) - PHYS_OFFSET); > > > + /* Reserve memory occupied by kernel. */ > > > + memblock_reserve(__pa_symbol(&_text), > > > + __pa_symbol(&_end) - __pa_symbol(&_text)); > > > > > > /* > > > * max_low_pfn is not a number of pages. The number of pages > > > > With some debug code added: > > > > Determined physical RAM map: > > memory: 08000000 @ 00000000 (usable) > > bootmem_init:390: PHYS_OFFSET = 0x0 > > bootmem_init:391: __pa_symbol(&_text) = 0x100000 > > bootmem_init:392: __pa_symbol(&_end) = 0x4b77c8 > > bootmem_init:393: PFN_UP(__pa_symbol(&_end)) = 0x4b8 > > Have you tried adding memblock=debug to the command line? > Not sure it'll help, but still :) > > > Hence the old code reserved 1 MiB extra at the beginning. > > > > Note that the new code also dropped the rounding up of the memory block > > size to a multiple of PAGE_SIZE. I'm not sure the latter actually > > matters or not. > > I'd say that bad page state for pfn 1 is caused by "freeing" the first 1M. > > > Do you have a clue? Thanks! > > > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > > > Geert > > > > -- > > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- > > ge...@linux-m68k.org > > > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like > > that. > > -- Linus Torvalds > > > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Mike. >