Re: Early boot panic on machine with lots of memory

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Jun 21 2012 - 16:19:36 EST


Hello,

Sasha, can you please apply the following patch and verify that the
issue is gone?

Thanks.

diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c
index d23415c..4aa5e5d 100644
--- a/mm/nobootmem.c
+++ b/mm/nobootmem.c
@@ -111,9 +111,6 @@ unsigned long __init free_low_memory_core_early(int nodeid)
phys_addr_t start, end;
u64 i;

- /* free reserved array temporarily so that it's treated as free area */
- memblock_free_reserved_regions();
-
for_each_free_mem_range(i, MAX_NUMNODES, &start, &end, NULL) {
unsigned long start_pfn = PFN_UP(start);
unsigned long end_pfn = min_t(unsigned long,
@@ -124,8 +121,6 @@ unsigned long __init free_low_memory_core_early(int nodeid)
}
}

- /* put region array back? */
- memblock_reserve_reserved_regions();
return count;
}

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