Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_alloc: Allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 07:40:47 -0400 Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> The attached config has THP disabled. The VM cannot boot with THP enabled,
> >> either.
> >>
> >
> > There is not a lot of information to go on here. Can you confirm that a
> > revert of that specific patch from mmotm-2021-06-07-18-33 also boots? It
> > sounds like your console log is empty, does anything useful appear if
> > you add "earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200" to the kernel command line?
> 
> Sure. I can confirm that reverting the patch makes the VM boot.
> The important information I forgot to mention is that after I remove
> the NUMA setting in the QEMU, the VM can boot too.

Thanks, I'll drop
mm-page_alloc-allow-high-order-pages-to-be-stored-on-the-per-cpu-lists.patch
for now.