[PATCH v2] arm64: mm: Fix memmap to be initialized for the entire section
Robert Richter
robert.richter at cavium.com
Fri Dec 9 06:52:34 PST 2016
On 09.12.16 21:15:12, Yisheng Xie wrote:
> For invalid pages, their zone and node information is not initialized, and it
> do have risk to trigger the BUG_ON, so I have a silly question,
> why not just change the BUG_ON:
We need to get the page handling correct. Modifying the BUG_ON() just
hides that something is wrong.
-Robert
> -----------
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 6de9440..af199b8 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1860,12 +1860,13 @@ int move_freepages(struct zone *zone,
> * Remove at a later date when no bug reports exist related to
> * grouping pages by mobility
> */
> - VM_BUG_ON(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page));
> + VM_BUG_ON(early_pfn_valid(start_page) && early_pfn_valid(end_page) &&
> + page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page));
> #endif
>
> for (page = start_page; page <= end_page;) {
> /* Make sure we are not inadvertently changing nodes */
> - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_to_nid(page) != zone_to_nid(zone), page);
> + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(early_pfn_valid(page) && (page_to_nid(page) != zone_to_nid(zone)), page);
>
> if (!pfn_valid_within(page_to_pfn(page))) {
> page++;
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list