On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 06:48 +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 08:12:06AM +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2021-05-18 at 19:09 +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > Hello Miles,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 05:24:44PM +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> > > > This patches is created to fix the __pa() warning messages when
> > > > CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y by unifying the allocation of pglist_data
> > > > instances.
> > > > 
> > > > In current implementation of node_data, if CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=y,
> > > > pglist_data is allocated by a memblock API. If 
> > > > CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=n,
> > > > we use a global variable named "contig_page_data".
> > > > 
> > > > If CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is not enabled. __pa() can handle both
> > > > allocation and symbol cases. But if CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is set,
> > > > we will have the "virt_to_phys used for non-linear address" warning
> > > > when booting.
> > > > 
> > > > To fix the warning, always allocate pglist_data by memblock APIs and
> > > > remove the usage of contig_page_data.
> > > 
> > > Somehow I was sure that we can allocate pglist_data before it is accessed
> > > in sparse_init() somewhere outside mm/sparse.c. It's really not the case
> > > and having two places that may allocated this structure is surely worth
> > > than your previous suggestion.
> > > 
> > > Sorry about that.
> > 
> > Do you mean taht to call allocation function arch/*, somewhere after
> > paging_init() (so we can access pglist_data) and before sparse_init()
> > and free_area_init()?
> 
> No, I meant that your original patch is better than adding allocation of
> NODE_DATA(0) in two places.

Got it. will you re-review the original patch?


>  
> > Miles
> > 
> > >  
> > > > Warning message:
> > > > [    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > > [    0.000000] virt_to_phys used for non-linear address: 
> > > > (____ptrval____) (contig_page_data+0x0/0x1c00)
> > > > [    0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:15 
> > > > __virt_to_phys+0x58/0x68
> > > > [    0.000000] Modules linked in:
> > > > [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G        W         
> > > > 5.13.0-rc1-00074-g1140ab592e2e #3
> > > > [    0.000000] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> > > > [    0.000000] pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
> > > > [    0.000000] pc : __virt_to_phys+0x58/0x68
> > > > [    0.000000] lr : __virt_to_phys+0x54/0x68
> > > > [    0.000000] sp : ffff800011833e70
> > > > [    0.000000] x29: ffff800011833e70 x28: 00000000418a0018 x27: 
> > > > 0000000000000000
> > > > [    0.000000] x26: 000000000000000a x25: ffff800011b70000 x24: 
> > > > ffff800011b70000
> > > > [    0.000000] x23: fffffc0001c00000 x22: ffff800011b70000 x21: 
> > > > 0000000047ffffb0
> > > > [    0.000000] x20: 0000000000000008 x19: ffff800011b082c0 x18: 
> > > > ffffffffffffffff
> > > > [    0.000000] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff800011833bf9 x15: 
> > > > 0000000000000004
> > > > [    0.000000] x14: 0000000000000fff x13: ffff80001186a548 x12: 
> > > > 0000000000000000
> > > > [    0.000000] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 00000000ffffffff x9 : 
> > > > 0000000000000000
> > > > [    0.000000] x8 : ffff8000115c9000 x7 : 737520737968705f x6 : 
> > > > ffff800011b62ef8
> > > > [    0.000000] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 
> > > > 0000000000000000
> > > > [    0.000000] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff80001159585e x0 : 
> > > > 0000000000000058
> > > > [    0.000000] Call trace:
> > > > [    0.000000]  __virt_to_phys+0x58/0x68
> > > > [    0.000000]  check_usemap_section_nr+0x50/0xfc
> > > > [    0.000000]  sparse_init_nid+0x1ac/0x28c
> > > > [    0.000000]  sparse_init+0x1c4/0x1e0
> > > > [    0.000000]  bootmem_init+0x60/0x90
> > > > [    0.000000]  setup_arch+0x184/0x1f0
> > > > [    0.000000]  start_kernel+0x78/0x488
> > > > [    0.000000] ---[ end trace f68728a0d3053b60 ]---
> > > > 
> > > > [1] 
> > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1425110/__;!!CTRNKA9wMg0ARbw!x-wGFEC1wLzXho2kI1CrC2fjXNaQm5f-n0ADQyJDckCOKZHAP_q055DCSWYcQ7Zdcw$
> > > >  
> > > > 
> > > > Change since v1:
> > > > - use memblock_alloc() to create pglist_data when CONFIG_NUMA=n
> > > > 
> > > > Miles Chen (2):
> > > >   mm: introduce prepare_node_data
> > > >   mm: replace contig_page_data with node_data
> > > > 
> > > >  Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst | 13 -------------
> > > >  arch/powerpc/kexec/core.c                      |  5 -----
> > > >  include/linux/gfp.h                            |  3 ---
> > > >  include/linux/mm.h                             |  2 ++
> > > >  include/linux/mmzone.h                         |  4 ++--
> > > >  kernel/crash_core.c                            |  1 -
> > > >  mm/memblock.c                                  |  3 +--
> > > >  mm/page_alloc.c                                | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > > >  mm/sparse.c                                    |  2 ++
> > > >  9 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > base-commit: 8ac91e6c6033ebc12c5c1e4aa171b81a662bd70f
> > > > -- 
> > > > 2.18.0
> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 

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