Hi Serge, On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 6:39 PM Serge Semin <fancer.lan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 06:53:10PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 04:56:39PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > 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?
Thanks, that does the trick! Will send a patch shortly... 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