Re: [PATCH v2 12/13] x86, numa, acpi, memory-hotplug: Make movablecore=acpihave higher priority.

From: Tang Chen
Date: Wed May 22 2013 - 00:40:31 EST


Hi Vasilis,

Maybe the following two problems are the cause of the reboot panic
problem in qemu you mentioned.

On 04/30/2013 05:21 PM, Tang Chen wrote:
......
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index b9ea143..2fe9ebf 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4793,9 +4793,31 @@ static void __init find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes(void)
nodemask_t saved_node_state = node_states[N_MEMORY];
unsigned long totalpages = early_calculate_totalpages();
int usable_nodes = nodes_weight(node_states[N_MEMORY]);
+ struct memblock_type *reserved =&memblock.reserved;


Need to call find_usable_zone_for_movable() here before goto out.

/*
- * If movablecore was specified, calculate what size of
+ * If movablecore=acpi was specified, then zone_movable_pfn[] has been
+ * initialized, and no more work needs to do.
+ * NOTE: In this case, we ignore kernelcore option.
+ */
+ if (movablecore_enable_srat) {
+ for (i = 0; i< reserved->cnt; i++) {
+ if (!memblock_is_hotpluggable(&reserved->regions[i]))
+ continue;
+
+ nid = reserved->regions[i].nid;
+
+ usable_startpfn = reserved->regions[i].base;

Here, it should be PFN_DOWN(reserved->regions[i].base).

Thanks. :)

+ zone_movable_pfn[nid] = zone_movable_pfn[nid] ?
+ min(usable_startpfn, zone_movable_pfn[nid]) :
+ usable_startpfn;
+ }
+
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If movablecore=nn[KMG] was specified, calculate what size of
* kernelcore that corresponds so that memory usable for
* any allocation type is evenly spread. If both kernelcore
* and movablecore are specified, then the value of kernelcore
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