Re: [PATCH] mm/memblock:use a more appropriate order calculation when free memblock pages

[Anders Roxell]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 18:44, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 04/12/2020 16:07, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > On 04.12.2020 14:42, Qian Cai wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 23:23 +0800, carver4lio@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >>> From: Hailong Liu <liu.hailong6@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> When system in the booting stage, pages span from [start, end] of a memblock
> >>> are freed to buddy in a order as large as possible (less than MAX_ORDER) at
> >>> first, then decrease gradually to a proper order(less than end) in a loop.
> >>>
> >>> However, *min(MAX_ORDER - 1UL, __ffs(start))* can not get the largest order
> >>> in some cases.
> >>> Instead, *__ffs(end - start)* may be more appropriate and meaningful.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Hailong Liu <liu.hailong6@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Reverting this commit on the top of today's linux-next fixed boot crashes on
> >> multiple NUMA systems.
> >
> > I confirm. Reverting commit 4df001639c84 ("mm/memblock: use a more
> > appropriate order calculation when free memblock pages") on top of linux
> > next-20201204 fixed booting of my ARM32bit test systems.
>
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> FWIW, I also confirm that this is causing several 32-bit Tegra platforms
> to crash on boot and reverting this fixes the problem.

I had the same experience on an arm64 system.

Cheers,
Anders