On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> c060f943d092 may be related as you config does not have
>>> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM defined.
>>
>> Right, that's the commit causing the x86 regression:
>>
>> c060f943d0929f3e429c5d9522290584f6281d6e is the first bad commit
>> commit c060f943d0929f3e429c5d9522290584f6281d6e
>> Date: Fri Jan 11 14:31:51 2013 -0800
>>
>> mm: use aligned zone start for pfn_to_bitidx calculation
>
> Ok, looking more at this, I don't really want to revert it, and I have
> an idea of what is wrong.
>
> When we allocate the zone use bitmap, we do not take the
> zone_start_pfn into account. So I *think* that what happens is that
> "pfn_to_bitidx()" simply overruns the allocation for unaligned zonesm
> and the spinlock just happens to be right after (or the overrun causes
> some other memory corruption that then indirectly causes the spinlock
> corruption).
>
> So I'm wondering if the fix is simply something like the attached
> patch. It takes the zone_start_pfn into account when allocating the
> zone bitmap.
Yes, that is right fix.
but you forgot to update setup_usemap() for SPARSEMEM
static inline void setup_usemap(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
struct zone *zone, unsigned long zonesize) {}
Thanks
Yinghai
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