linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-rc9 panics with crashkernel=256M while booting

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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:41:58 +0530
From:	Chandru <chandru@...ibm.com>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc9 panics with crashkernel=256M while booting

On Friday 16 January 2009 23:22:57 Dave Hansen wrote:
> Just looking at it, that calculation is OK.  But, there was one in your
> dmesg that looked a page too long, like page 0x1001 instead of 0x1000.
> I'd find out how that happened.

That is a result of PFN_UP() in reserve_bootmem_node() for which we hit the 
BUG_ON() eventually.   Prior to calling reserve_bootmem_node() we have...

node_ar.end_pfn = node->node_end_pfn = PFN_DOWN(physbase+reserve_size). 

Hence a PFN_UP() will raise the value of 'end'. The kernel has 
CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES enabled in the config. 

Chandru
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