Re: [regression] Boot crash with: f7426b983a6a ("mm: cma: adjust address limit to avoid hitting low/high memory boundary")

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Dec 08 2014 - 05:56:50 EST



* Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 02:05:56PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Any replies to this regression after 10 days, or should I send a
> > revert patch?
>
> Hello, Ingo.
>
> I can reproduce your problem and find root cause.
> If CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled, __pa() checks whether virtual
> address is valid or not. Because high_memory is not direct mapped
> address, error occurs. IMO, physical address of high_memory is
> useful to check phycal address of highmem boundary so do following
> workaround to avoid validation is reasonable. But, if there is
> a better solution, please let me know. I think that Marek will be
> better than me in this area.
>
> Please check following change to fix your problem.
> If you agree following change, I will send it to Andrew with
> proper description.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ------->8-------------
> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> index ee3c3e0..45cd0a6 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.c
> +++ b/mm/cma.c
> @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ int __init cma_declare_contiguous(phys_addr_t base,
> bool fixed, struct cma **res_cma)
> {
> phys_addr_t memblock_end = memblock_end_of_DRAM();
> - phys_addr_t highmem_start = __pa(high_memory);
> + phys_addr_t highmem_start = __pa_nodebug(high_memory);
> int ret = 0;
>
> pr_debug("%s(size %pa, base %pa, limit %pa alignment %pa)\n",

Looks like this patch solves my boot crash problem:

Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'll let you know if there's any problem left as I test it some
more. Consider the bug fixed!

Thanks,

Ingo
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