linux-kernel - [regression] Boot crash with: f7426b983a6a ("mm: cma: adjust address limit to avoid hitting low/high memory boundary")

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Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:39:03 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: [regression] Boot crash with: f7426b983a6a ("mm: cma: adjust address
 limit to avoid hitting low/high memory boundary")

In x86 randconfig boot testing on a generic whitebox PC I started 
seeing the following new early boot crash, starting in this merge 
window:

...
init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x37c00000-0x37d33fff]
 [mem 0x37c00000-0x37d33fff] page 4k
BRK [0x02a36000, 0x02a36fff] PGTABLE
BUG: Int 6: CR2 00f06f53
     EDI   (null)  ESI 0665b000  EBP c1ed7edc  EBX 40000000
     ESP c1ed7ed8   ES 0000007b   DS 0000007b
     EDX c2022c18  ECX 37d34000  EAX   (null)
     vec 00000006  err   (null)  EIP c102b62e   CS 00000060  flg 00210013
Stack:   (null) c1ed7f1c c1fccd26   (null)   (null)   (null)   (null) 00134000
         (null) 37c00000 37d34000   (null)   (null) 3fff0000 c2a09600 0665b000
         (null) c1ed7f3c c1fe9b6e   (null)   (null)   (null) c2a09600 0665b000
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.17.0+ #241217
Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/A8N-E, BIOS ASUS A8N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1008 08/22/2005
 00000000 00000000 c1ed7e88 c1902dfd 40000000 c1ed7edc c1fad1f7 c2023431
 00000006 00f06f53 00000000 0665b000 c1ed7edc 40000000 c1ed7ed8 0000007b
 0000007b c2022c18 37d34000 00000000 00000006 00000000 c102b62e 00000060
Call Trace:
 [<c1902dfd>] dump_stack+0x41/0x52
 [<c1fad1f7>] early_idt_handler+0x6b/0x6b
 [<c102b62e>] ? __phys_addr+0x16/0x68
 [<c1fccd26>] cma_declare_contiguous+0x33/0x212
 [<c1fe9b6e>] dma_contiguous_reserve_area+0x31/0x4e
 [<c1fe9ca8>] dma_contiguous_reserve+0x11d/0x125
 [<c1faf2c8>] ? setup_real_mode+0x98/0xa3
 [<c1fb00c8>] setup_arch+0x7b5/0xb63
 [<c1fad802>] start_kernel+0xb8/0x3e6
 [<c1fad2cb>] i386_start_kernel+0x79/0x7d
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and bisected it down to:

 f7426b983a6a353cf21e5733e84458219c4a817e is the first bad commit
 commit f7426b983a6a353cf21e5733e84458219c4a817e
 Author: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
 Date:   Thu Oct 9 15:26:47 2014 -0700

    mm: cma: adjust address limit to avoid hitting low/high memory boundary

    Russell King recently noticed that limiting default CMA region only to low
    memory on ARM architecture causes serious memory management issues with
    machines having a lot of memory (which is mainly available as high
    memory).  More information can be found the following thread:
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/348441/

    Those two patches removes this limit letting kernel to put default CMA
    region into high memory when this is possible (there is enough high memory
    available and architecture specific DMA limit fits).

    [...]

The offending commit does not revert cleanly.

Config attached.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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