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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQVnBeNEOgH4b+=FywMCnR-u7afADXK2KaiU+aSR+UcDYw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:38:31 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [-rc7 regression] Buggy commit: "mm: use aligned zone start for
 pfn_to_bitidx calculation"

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> c060f943d092 may be related as you config does not have
>>> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM defined.
>>
>> Right, that's the commit causing the x86 regression:
>>
>>  c060f943d0929f3e429c5d9522290584f6281d6e is the first bad commit
>>  commit c060f943d0929f3e429c5d9522290584f6281d6e
>>  Date:   Fri Jan 11 14:31:51 2013 -0800
>>
>>      mm: use aligned zone start for pfn_to_bitidx calculation
>
> Ok, looking more at this, I don't really want to revert it, and I have
> an idea of what is wrong.
>
> When we allocate the zone use bitmap, we do not take the
> zone_start_pfn into account. So I *think* that what happens is that
> "pfn_to_bitidx()" simply overruns the allocation for unaligned zonesm
> and the spinlock just happens to be right after (or the overrun causes
> some other memory corruption that then indirectly causes the spinlock
> corruption).
>
> So I'm wondering if the fix is simply something like the attached
> patch. It takes the zone_start_pfn into account when allocating the
> zone bitmap.

Yes, that is right fix.

but you forgot to update setup_usemap() for SPARSEMEM

static inline void setup_usemap(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
                                struct zone *zone, unsigned long zonesize) {}

Thanks

Yinghai
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