linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/memblock: add missing include <linux/bootmem.h>

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Date:   Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:26:01 -0700
From:   Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memblock: add missing include <linux/bootmem.h>

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Huh.  How did that ever work.  I guess it's either this:
>
> --- a/mm/Makefile~a
> +++ a/mm/Makefile
> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ obj-y += init-mm.o
>
>  ifdef CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM
>         obj-y           += nobootmem.o
> +       obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK) += memblock.o
>  else
>         obj-y           += bootmem.o
>  endif
> @@ -53,7 +54,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS) += fadvise
>  ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>         obj-$(CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS)   += madvise.o
>  endif
> -obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK) += memblock.o
>
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SWAP)     += page_io.o swap_state.o swapfile.o swap_slots.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_FRONTSWAP)        += frontswap.o

That option gave me a boatload of undefined symbols.

> or this:
>
> --- a/include/linux/bootmem.h~a
> +++ a/include/linux/bootmem.h
> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ extern void *__alloc_bootmem_low_node(pg
>         __alloc_bootmem_low_node(pgdat, x, PAGE_SIZE, 0)
>
>
> -#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK) && defined(CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM)
> +#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK)
>
>  /* FIXME: use MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_* variants here */
>  #define BOOTMEM_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE       0

That compiles cleanly, but didn't boot:

 [<a000000100029910>] ia64_fault+0xf0/0xe00
                                sp=e0000004fb37f8a0 bsp=e0000004fb371438
 [<a00000010000c920>] ia64_leave_kernel+0x0/0x270
                                sp=e0000004fb37fba0 bsp=e0000004fb371438
hid-generic 0003:0624:0200.0001: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Avocent
USB_AMIQ] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input1
 [<a00000010020b100>] pcpu_find_block_fit+0x20/0x300
                                sp=e0000004fb37fd70 bsp=e0000004fb3713a8
 [<a00000010020ee70>] pcpu_alloc+0x630/0xc40
                                sp=e0000004fb37fd90 bsp=e0000004fb371308
input: Avocent USB_AMIQ as
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/0003:0624:0200.0002/input/input3
 [<a00000010020f520>] __alloc_percpu+0x40/0x60
                                sp=e0000004fb37fda0 bsp=e0000004fb3712e0
 [<a0000001002fb4c0>] alloc_vfsmnt+0x1c0/0x4e0
                                sp=e0000004fb37fda0 bsp=e0000004fb371280
 [<a000000100303d10>] vfs_kern_mount+0x30/0x2a0
                                sp=e0000004fb37fdf0 bsp=e0000004fb371238


> and I'm not sure which.  I think I'll just revert $subject for now.

Reverting is a good short term fix.

-Tony