linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mips: sgi-ip27: switch from DISCONTIGMEM to SPARSEMEM

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Message-ID: <20190910113243.GA19207@rapoport-lnx>
Date:   Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:32:44 +0100
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@...e.de>
Cc:     Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mips: sgi-ip27: switch from DISCONTIGMEM to SPARSEMEM

On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 06:22:42PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 16:02:24 +0300
> Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > I suspect that unaligned access comes from __page_to_pfn, can you please
> > check what scripts/fadd2line reports for kernel_init_free_pages+0xcc/0x138?
> 
> kernel_init_free_pages+0xcc/0x138:
> pagefault_disabled_dec at include/linux/uaccess.h:173
> (inlined by) pagefault_enable at include/linux/uaccess.h:200
> (inlined by) __kunmap_atomic at include/linux/highmem.h:101
> (inlined by) clear_highpage at include/linux/highmem.h:215
> (inlined by) kernel_init_free_pages at mm/page_alloc.c:1124
> 
> While making some sense out of this I booted the system a few times
> with the same kernel and I get different crashes (it even booted once
> to userspace).
> 
> Here a list (decoded with fadd2line)

... 
 
> I couldn't make real sense out of this yet, but maybe it gives
> a hint for you.

Unfortunately, no :(

Before we start adding printks, can you please run with
CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y and with 

mminit_loglevel=4 ignore_loglevel

in the command line?

> Thomas.
> 
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Sincerely yours,
Mike.