[PATCHv5 2/2] arm: Get rid of meminfo

Laura Abbott lauraa at codeaurora.org
Fri Jun 27 02:21:12 PDT 2014


On 6/24/2014 1:49 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hi Laura,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 01:47:55PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
>> Thanks for the report.
> Thanks for your reply to address it :-)
> Are you already aware of the mail with Message-Id:
> CAGa+x85H510fNGTXJHGYfQybRa2FGgg2NyCgJ8rmjJ6TE7GNbA at mail.gmail.com ?
> Seems to be another fall-out but I think you were not on Cc.
> 
>> On 6/23/2014 2:17 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>>> This patch is in 3.16-rc1 as 1c2f87c22566cd057bc8cde10c37ae9da1a1bb76
>>> now.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately it makes my efm32 machine unbootable.
>>>
>>> With earlyprintk enabled I get the following output:
>>>
>>> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
>>> [    0.000000] Linux version 3.15.0-rc1-00028-g1c2f87c22566-dirty (ukleinek at perseus) (gcc version 4.7.2 (OSELAS.Toolchain-2012.12.1) ) #280 PREEMPT Mon Jun 23 11:05:34 CEST 2014
>>> [    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7-M [412fc231] revision 1 (ARMv7M), cr=00000000
>>> [    0.000000] CPU: unknown data cache, unknown instruction cache
>>> [    0.000000] Machine model: Energy Micro Giant Gecko Development Kit
>>> [    0.000000] debug: ignoring loglevel setting.
>>> [    0.000000] bootconsole [earlycon0] enabled
>>> [    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 1024
>>> [    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 880208f4, node_mem_map 00000000
>>> [    0.000000]   Normal zone: 3840 pages exceeds freesize 1024
>>
>> This looks off. The number of pages for the memmap exceeds the available free
>> size. Working backwards, I think the wrong bounds are being calculated in
>> find_limits in arch/arm/mm/init.c . max_low is now calculated via the current
>> limit but nommu never sets a limit unlike the mmu case. Can you try the
>> following patch and see if it fixes the issue? If this doesn't work, can
>> you share working bootup logs so I can do a bit more compare and contrast?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Laura
>>
>> ---8<----
>> From 9b19241d577caf91928e26e55413047d1be90feb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org>
>> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:26:56 -0700
>> Subject: [PATCH] arm: Set memblock limit for nommu
>>
>> Commit 1c2f87c (ARM: 8025/1: Get rid of meminfo) changed find_limits
>> to use memblock_get_current_limit for calculating the max_low pfn.
>> nommu targets never actually set a limit on memblock though which
>> means memblock_get_current_limit will just return the default
>> value. Set the memblock_limit to be the end of DDR to make sure
> s/DDR/RAM/ ?
> 
>> bounds are calculated correctly.
> This patch makes my machine boot. Full boot log appended below.
> (Side note: I place my dtb in the SRAM at 0x10000000 but don't add this to
> the available memory because it's only 128 KiB in size and so too small
> to be worth to track. Not sure this is allowed?!)
> 
> Thanks
> Uwe
> 
 
I put this in the patch tracker as 8086/1

Thanks,
Laura

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