linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_NUMA breaks hibernation on x86-32 with PAE

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Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:23:15 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_NUMA breaks hibernation on x86-32 with PAE

On Monday, 10 of November 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:55:29 +0100
> > Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> wrote:
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > * Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > ...at least on 2.6.27 and 2.6.28-rc3. Resume gets to 
> > > > > acpi_hibernation_leave, then SLAB corruption is detected and machine 
> > > > > ends in series of oops.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Any ideas how to debug that?
> > > > 
> > > > do you get any serial log or USB key output, so that it's debuggable 
> > > > directly?
> > > 
> > > Well, I can transcribe the BUG() from a picture, I guess, but it does
> > > not seem to contain much useful info: SLAB corruption was detected and
> > > backtrace is not quite important at that point...
> > > 
> > > Serial console is probably possible, but would take few days to setup.
> > > 									Pavel
> > 
> > How about this patch ?
> > ==
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=122624388629106&w=2
> > ==
> 
> note, that fix of Rafael's is now upstream as:
> 
>   c5d7124: Fix __pfn_to_page(pfn) for CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y
> 
> and included in v2.6.28-rc4.
> 
> But yes, this area of code (the save/restore of memory maps) would be 
> the main suspect to investigate.

It surely is, but the root cause need not be there, actually.

The problem only happens with CONFIG_NUMA enabled, only on 32-bit systems
and it _doesn't_ happen if the kernel is booted with highmem=0.

Evidently, CONFIG_NUMA is sufficient for the breakage to appear, even if
CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM is not set (CONFIG_SPARSEMEM is set in this case, but
hibernation works with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM and without CONFIG_NUMA, both for
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y).

I've been investigating this issue for quite some time now and it's starting
to look like a problem with kmap_atomic() or something along these lines.

Thanks,
Rafael
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