On (14/03/07 10:52), Bjorn Helgaas didst pronounce:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2007 10:13, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Ok. This looks like another case of HOLES_IN_ZONE hilarity with page_zone().
> > As I take a new look at the BUG_ON check in move_freepages(), it isn't even
> > necessary as move_freepages_block() already checks the zone boundaries. At
> > a
> > later date when the code has survived a while without new bug reports, I'll
> > submit a patch that simply deletes this check because it should be
> > redundant.
> > Just in case, I'd like to preserve the check in the non-HOLES_IN_ZONE
> > case for now.
> >
> > Can you try this patch please? It should apply on top of Yasunori Goto's
> > patch.
> > ...
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE
> > + /*
> > + * page_zone is not safe to call in this context when
> > + * CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is set but this bug check is
> > + * redundant anyway as we check zone boundaries in
> > + * move_freepages_block()
> > + */
> > BUG_ON(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page - 1));
> > +#endif
> >
>
> Your patch applied fine, but I'm sorry to say it still doesn't
> work. I added this patch on top of yours:
>
> --- work-mm10.orig/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-03-14 09:34:42.000000000 -0700
> +++ work-mm10/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-03-14 09:42:31.000000000 -0700
> @@ -707,6 +707,10 @@
> unsigned long order;
> int blocks_moved = 0;
>
> + printk("%s: zone %s zone_start_pfn 0x%lx start_page 0x%p end_page
> 0x%p\n",
> + __FUNCTION__, zone->name, zone->zone_start_pfn, start_page,
> + end_page);
> +
> #ifndef CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE
> /*
> * page_zone is not safe to call in this context when
>
> and it crashed like this. Let me know if I can collect more information
> for you.
Can you tell me if the faulting line was at the check for PageBuddy? Can you
also apply the following patch and boot with loglevel=8 please? The
patch moves the check for pfn_valid() before PageBuddy() is called.
Thanks
diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff
linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2-bjorn_testfix/mm/page_alloc.c
linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2-bjorn_testfix-2/mm/page_alloc.c
--- linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2-bjorn_testfix/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-03-14
16:01:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2-bjorn_testfix-2/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-03-14
17:17:57.000000000 +0000
@@ -718,10 +718,6 @@ int move_freepages(struct zone *zone,
#endif
for (page = start_page; page < end_page;) {
- if (!PageBuddy(page)) {
- page++;
- continue;
- }
#ifdef CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE
if (!pfn_valid(page_to_pfn(page))) {
page++;
@@ -729,6 +725,11 @@ int move_freepages(struct zone *zone,
}
#endif
+ if (!PageBuddy(page)) {
+ page++;
+ continue;
+ }
+
order = page_order(page);
list_del(&page->lru);
list_add(&page->lru,
-
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