linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corruption fix

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Message-ID: <20080416001816.GA26295@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:18:16 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Yinghai.Lu@....com,
	apw@...dowen.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corruption fix


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> finally found it ... the patch below solves the sparsemem crash and 
> the testsystem boots up fine now:
> 
>   mars:~> uname -a
>   Linux mars 2.6.25-rc9-sched-devel.git-x86-latest.git #985 SMP Wed Apr 16 
>   01:37:37 CEST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

i re-checked the original SLAB config too and that boots fine as well 
now - so i'm confident that the regression has been sufficiently cured.

it's getting quite late here (or rather, it's getting early :-/ ) so it 
would be nice if others could double-check this calculation (with an eye 
on all possible architectures):

+       unsigned long max_arch_pfn = 1ULL << (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS-PAGE_SHIFT);

and also check my analysis whether it is correct and whether it matches 
the reported bug patterns. But otherwise the fix looks like a safe fix 
for v2.6.25-final to me - it only filters out values from sparsemem 
input that are nonsensical in the sparsemem framework anyway.

	Ingo
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