linux-kernel - Re: Config NO_BOOTMEM breaks my amd64 box

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Date:	Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:05:45 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, airlied@...ux.ie
Subject: Re: Config NO_BOOTMEM breaks my amd64 box

On 03/30/2010 11:47 PM, James Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> On 03/30/2010 09:49 PM, James Morris wrote:
>>> Please make NO_BOOTMEM default to n, at least for amd64, where I've found 
>>> that it leads to all kinds of strange, undebuggable boot hangs and errors 
>>> (with relatively current Fedora development userland).
>>
>> Have you tested it with the latest fixes that are now in Linus' tree (-rc3)?
> 
> Yes, it was happening with -rc3.

in case, you have one 32bit system without RAM installed on node0. please check

Thanks

Yinghai

Subject: [PATCH] x86: Fix 32bit system without RAM on Node0

when 32bit numa is used, free_all_bootmem() will still only go over with
node id 0.

If node 0 doesn't have RAM installed, We need to go with node1
because early_node_map still use 1 for all ranges, and ram from node1
becom low ram.

Try to use MAX_NUMNODES like 64 numa does.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>

---
 arch/x86/mm/init_32.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
@@ -875,7 +875,12 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 	BUG_ON(!mem_map);
 #endif
 	/* this will put all low memory onto the freelists */
+#if defined(CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM) && defined(MAX_NUMNODES)
+	/* In case some 32bit systems don't have RAM installed on node0 */
+        totalram_pages += free_all_memory_core_early(MAX_NUMNODES);
+#else
 	totalram_pages += free_all_bootmem();
+#endif
 
 	reservedpages = 0;
 	for (tmp = 0; tmp < max_low_pfn; tmp++)
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