linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-rc9 panics with crashkernel=256M while booting

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Message-Id: <1232128377.27278.69.camel@nimitz>
Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:52:57 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Chandru <chandru@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc9 panics with crashkernel=256M while booting

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 17:46 +0530, Chandru wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2009 13:35:27 Chandru wrote:
> > Hello Dave, From the debug console output, if there is anything you can add
> > here, pls let me know.
> 
> As we can see from the console output here,  physbase isn't page aligned when 
> the panic occurs.  So we could as well send (start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) to 
> reserve_bootmem_node() instead of physbase. your thoughts ?.
> 
> Also end_pfn in mark_reserved_region_for_nid() is defined as 
> 
> unsigned long end_pfn = ((physbase + size) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> 
> Does this refer to the pfn after the area that we are interested in ?.  We have 
> atleast two fixes here,  
> 1. Limit start and end to bdata->node_min_pfn  and bdata->node_low_pfn in 
> reserve_bootmem_node() and add comments out in there that the caller of the 
> funtion should be aware of how much are they reserving. 
> 2. send (start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) to reserve_bootmem_node() instead of 
> physbase. 

Just looking at it, that calculation is OK.  But, there was one in your
dmesg that looked a page too long, like page 0x1001 instead of 0x1000.
I'd find out how that happened.

-- Dave

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