Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] m68k: switch to MEMBLOCK + NO_BOOTMEM

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Wed Jul 04 2018 - 08:43:50 EST


On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 02:36:27PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [CC Andrew - email thread starts
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530685696-14672-1-git-send-email-rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> OK, so here we go with the full patch.
>
> From 0e8432b875d98a7a0d3f757fce2caa8d16a8de15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 14:31:46 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] memblock: do not complain about top-down allocations for
> !MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>
> Mike Rapoport is converting architectures from bootmem to noboodmem
> allocator. While doing so for m68k Geert has noticed that he gets
> a scary looking warning
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/memblock.c:230
> memblock_find_in_range_node+0x11c/0x1be
> memblock: bottom-up allocation failed, memory hotunplug may be affected
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted
> 4.18.0-rc3-atari-01343-gf2fb5f2e09a97a3c-dirty #7
> Stack from 003c3e20:
> 003c3e20 0039cf44 00023800 00433000 ffffffff 00001000 00240000 000238aa
> 00378734 000000e6 004285ac 00000009 00000000 003c3e58 003787c0 003c3e74
> 003c3ea4 004285ac 00378734 000000e6 003787c0 00000000 00000000 00000001
> 00000000 00000010 00000000 00428490 003e3856 ffffffff ffffffff 003c3ed0
> 00044620 003c3ee0 00417a10 00240000 00000010 00000000 00000000 00000001
> 00000000 00000001 00240000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00001000 003e3856
> Call Trace: [<00023800>] __warn+0xa8/0xc2
> [<00001000>] kernel_pg_dir+0x0/0x1000
> [<00240000>] netdev_lower_get_next+0x2/0x22
> [<000238aa>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2e/0x36
> [<004285ac>] memblock_find_in_range_node+0x11c/0x1be
> [<004285ac>] memblock_find_in_range_node+0x11c/0x1be
> [<00428490>] memblock_find_in_range_node+0x0/0x1be
> [<00044620>] vprintk_func+0x66/0x6e
> [<00417a10>] memblock_virt_alloc_internal+0xd0/0x156
> [<00240000>] netdev_lower_get_next+0x2/0x22
> [<00240000>] netdev_lower_get_next+0x2/0x22
> [<00001000>] kernel_pg_dir+0x0/0x1000
> [<00417b8c>] memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_nopanic+0x58/0x7a
> [<00240000>] netdev_lower_get_next+0x2/0x22
> [<00001000>] kernel_pg_dir+0x0/0x1000
> [<00001000>] kernel_pg_dir+0x0/0x1000
> [<00010000>] EXPTBL+0x234/0x400
> [<00010000>] EXPTBL+0x234/0x400
> [<002f3644>] alloc_node_mem_map+0x4a/0x66
> [<00240000>] netdev_lower_get_next+0x2/0x22
> [<004155ca>] free_area_init_node+0xe2/0x29e
> [<00010000>] EXPTBL+0x234/0x400
> [<00411392>] paging_init+0x430/0x462
> [<00001000>] kernel_pg_dir+0x0/0x1000
> [<000427cc>] printk+0x0/0x1a
> [<00010000>] EXPTBL+0x234/0x400
> [<0041084c>] setup_arch+0x1b8/0x22c
> [<0040e020>] start_kernel+0x4a/0x40a
> [<0040d344>] _sinittext+0x344/0x9e8
>
> The warning is basically saying that a top-down allocation can break
> memory hotremove because memblock allocation is not movable. But m68k
> doesn't even support MEMORY_HOTREMOVE is there is no point to warn
> about it.
>
> Make the warning conditional only to configurations that care.
>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memblock.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> index 03d48d8835ba..2acec4033389 100644
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -227,7 +227,8 @@ phys_addr_t __init_memblock memblock_find_in_range_node(phys_addr_t size,
> * so we use WARN_ONCE() here to see the stack trace if
> * fail happens.
> */
> - WARN_ONCE(1, "memblock: bottom-up allocation failed, memory hotunplug may be affected\n");
> + WARN_ONCE(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE),
> + "memblock: bottom-up allocation failed, memory hotremove may be affected\n");

nit: isn't the warning indented too much?

> }
>
> return __memblock_find_range_top_down(start, end, size, align, nid,
> --
> 2.18.0
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
>

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.