[PATCH] Allow nodes to exist that only contain ZONE_MOVABLE

[Mel Gorman]

With the introduction of kernelcore=, a configurable zone is created on
request. In some cases, this value will be small enough that some nodes
contain only ZONE_MOVABLE. On some NUMA configurations when this occurs,
arch-independent zone-sizing will get the size of the memory holes within the
node incorrect. The value of present_pages goes negative and the boot fails.

This patch fixes the bug in the calculation of the size of the hole. The
test case is to boot test a NUMA machine with a low value of kernelcore=
before and after the patch is applied. While this bug exists in early kernel
it cannot be triggered in practice.

This patch has been boot-tested on a variety machines with and without
kernelcore= set.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>

---
 page_alloc.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 40954fb..6d3550c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2775,11 +2775,11 @@ unsigned long __meminit __absent_pages_in_range(int nid,
 	if (i == -1)
 		return 0;
 
+	prev_end_pfn = min(early_node_map[i].start_pfn, range_end_pfn);
+
 	/* Account for ranges before physical memory on this node */
 	if (early_node_map[i].start_pfn > range_start_pfn)
-		hole_pages = early_node_map[i].start_pfn - range_start_pfn;
-
-	prev_end_pfn = early_node_map[i].start_pfn;
+		hole_pages = prev_end_pfn - range_start_pfn;
 
 	/* Find all holes for the zone within the node */
 	for (; i != -1; i = next_active_region_index_in_nid(i, nid)) {
-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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