Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix memmap to be initialized for the entire section

[Robert Richter]

 On 06.10.16 11:52:07, Robert Richter wrote:
> There is a memory setup problem on ThunderX systems with certain
> memory configurations. The symptom is
> 
>  kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:1848!
> 
> This happens for some configs with 64k page size enabled. The bug
> triggers for page zones with some pages in the zone not assigned to
> this particular zone. In my case some pages that are marked as nomap
> were not reassigned to the new zone of node 1, so those are still
> assigned to node 0.
> 
> The reason for the mis-configuration is a change in pfn_valid() which
> reports pages marked nomap as invalid:
> 
>  68709f45385a arm64: only consider memblocks with NOMAP cleared for linear mapping
> 
> This causes pages marked as nomap being no long reassigned to the new
> zone in memmap_init_zone() by calling __init_single_pfn().
> 
> Fixing this by restoring the old behavior of pfn_valid() to use
> memblock_is_memory(). Also changing users of pfn_valid() in arm64 code
> to use memblock_is_map_memory() where necessary. This only affects
> code in ioremap.c. The code in mmu.c still can use the new version of
> pfn_valid().

Below a reproducer for non-numa systems. Note that invalidating the
node id just simulates a different node in reality.

The patch injects a (pageblock_order) unaligned NOMAP mem range at the
end of a memory block and then tries to free that area. This causes a
BUG_ON() (log attached).

-Robert