Oops at boot after commit 965278dcb8ab... when using split memory region

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 03:46:12PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 03:15:33PM +0100, jean-philippe francois wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > commit 965278dcb8ab0b1f666cc47937933c4be4aea48d, (ARM: 8356/1: mm:
> > handle non-pmd-aligned end of RAM) causes my dm3730 based board to
> > oops at boot when using a split memory description.
> > The kernel command line parameter is :
> > mem=55M at 0x80000000 mem=128M at 0x88000000
> > 
> > If the same board is booted without the mem argument, it boots to userspace.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> Javier reported a similar issue [1], which was somehow fixed by Laura's
> patch to update the memblock limit [2,3].
> 
> I don't yet understand why, but if that works for you it would be an
> interesting data point.
> 
> > Below is the bootlog.
> 
> Interesting. That blows up a lot later than I'd expect. I'll see if I
> can reproduce the issue locally.

Yes, I think we need to understand what's going on here, and what's
causing these failures, rather than blindly applying a patch which
seems to solve the problem.

I'm not bothering investigating right now as it is far too hot and
humid to concentrate today.

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