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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:06:08 +0800 From: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com> To: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com> CC: X86-ML <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>, Chao Wang <chaowang@...hat.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] x86: Create direct mappings for E820_RAM only On 08/14/2012 04:34 PM, Dave Young wrote: > On 08/14/2012 05:46 AM, Jacob Shin wrote: > >> Currently kernel direct mappings are created for all pfns between >> [ 0 to max_low_pfn ) and [ 4GB to max_pfn ). When we introduce memory >> holes, we end up mapping memory ranges that are not backed by physical >> DRAM. This is fine for lower memory addresses which can be marked as UC >> by fixed/variable range MTRRs, however we run in to trouble with high >> addresses. >> >> The following patchset creates direct mappings only for E820_RAM regions >> between 0 ~ max_low_pfn and 4GB ~ max_pfn. And leaves non-E820_RAM and >> memory holes unmapped. > > > Hi, > > Chaowang did some kdump test in a kvm guest with this patchset, 2nd > kenrel just reboot after some ACPI printk, see below dmesg of 2nd kernel: > > After a crash: > [snip] > I'm in purgatory > [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset > [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu > [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.5.0-0.23.el7.bz846531.x86_64 (mockbuild@) > (gcc version 4.7.1 20120720 (Red Hat 4.7.1-5) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Mon Aug 13 > 22:17:46 EDT 2012 > [ 0.000000] Command line: > BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.5.0-0.23.el7.bz846531.x86_64 > root=/dev/mapper/vg_none-lv_root ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg_none/lv_swap > rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg_none/lv_root rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > console=ttyS0,115200 SYSFONT=True KEYTABLE=us earlyprintk=serial > irqpoll nr_cpus=1 reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory mce=off > earlyprintk=serial memmap=exactmap memmap=567K@64K > memmap=261552K@...824K elfcorehdr=851376K > [ 0.000000] e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000100-0x000000000009dbff] usable > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009dc00-0x000000000009ffff] > reserved > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000f0000-0x00000000000fffff] > reserved > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000003fffdfff] usable > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000003fffe000-0x000000003fffffff] > reserved > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000feffc000-0x00000000feffffff] > reserved > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fffc0000-0x00000000ffffffff] > reserved > [ 0.000000] bootconsole [earlyser0] enabled > [ 0.000000] ERROR: earlyprintk= earlyser already used > [ 0.000000] e820: last_pfn = 0x3fffe max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000 > [ 0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active > [ 0.000000] e820: user-defined physical RAM map: > [ 0.000000] user: [mem 0x0000000000010000-0x000000000009dbff] usable > [ 0.000000] user: [mem 0x0000000024000000-0x0000000033f6bfff] usable > [ 0.000000] DMI 2.4 present. > [ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found > [ 0.000000] e820: last_pfn = 0x33f6c max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000 > [ 0.000000] PAT not supported by CPU. > [ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000fdae0-0x000fdaef] mapped > at [ffff8800000fdae0] > [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x24000000-0x33f6bfff] > [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff] > [ 0.000000] RAMDISK: [mem 0x3378a000-0x33f58fff] > [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 00000000000fd980 00014 (v00 BOCHS ) > [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 000000003fffe5b0 00038 (v01 BOCHS BXPCRSDT > 00000001 BXPC 00000001) > [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 000000003fffff80 00074 (v01 BOCHS BXPCFACP > 00000001 BXPC 00000001) > [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 000000003fffe5f0 01121 (v01 BXPC BXDSDT > 00000001 INTL 20100528) > [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 000000003fffff40 00040 > [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000003ffffea0 0009E (v01 BOCHS BXPCSSDT > 00000001 BXPC 00000001) > [ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 000000003ffffdb0 00078 (v01 BOCHS BXPCAPIC > 00000001 BXPC 00000001) > [ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET 000000003ffffd70 00038 (v01 BOCHS BXPCHPET > 00000001 BXPC 00000001) > [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000003ffff720 00644 (v01 BXPC BXSSDTPC > 00000001 INTL 20100528) > > ====2nd kernel reboot here===== The above is copied from rhel7 3.5.0 test kernel, with linus tree + this patch set there's nearly same output. > > >> >> This revision of the patchset attempts to resolve comments and concerns >> from the following threads: >> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/11/95 >> >> and >> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/16/486 >> >> Jacob Shin (5): >> x86: Only direct map addresses that are marked as E820_RAM >> x86: find_early_table_space based on memory ranges that are being >> mapped >> x86: Keep track of direct mapped pfn ranges >> x86: Fixup code testing if a pfn is direct mapped >> x86: Move enabling of PSE and PGE out of init_memory_mapping >> >> arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h | 9 +++ >> arch/x86/kernel/amd_gart_64.c | 4 +- >> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 6 +- >> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- >> arch/x86/mm/init.c | 72 +++++++++++----------- >> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 3 +- >> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 8 +-- >> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 + >> 8 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-) >> > > > -- Thanks Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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