[PATCH 0/3] Fix boot problem with deferred meminit on machine with no node 0

[Mel Gorman]

A machine with only node 1 was observed to crash very early in boot with
the following message

[    0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000002a3c8
[    0.000000] PGD 0
[    0.000000] Modules linked in:
[    0.000000] Hardware name: Supermicro H8DSP-8/H8DSP-8, BIOS 080011  06/30/2006
[    0.000000] task: ffffffff81c0d500 ti: ffffffff81c00000 task.ti: ffffffff81c00000
[    0.000000] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff816dbd63>]  [<ffffffff816dbd63>] reserve_bootmem_region+0x6a/0xef
[    0.000000] RSP: 0000:ffffffff81c03eb0  EFLAGS: 00010086
[    0.000000] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[    0.000000] RDX: ffffffff81c03ec0 RSI: ffffffff81d205c0 RDI: ffffffff8213ee60
[    0.000000] R13: ffffea0000000000 R14: ffffea0000000020 R15: ffffea0000000020
[    0.000000] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8800fba00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[    0.000000] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[    0.000000] CR2: 000000000002a3c8 CR3: 0000000001c06000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
[    0.000000] Stack:
[    0.000000]  ffffffff81c03f00 0000000000000400 ffff8800fbfc3200 ffffffff81e2a2c0
[    0.000000]  ffffffff81c03fb0 ffffffff81c03f20 ffffffff81dadf7d ffffea0002000040
[    0.000000]  ffffea0000000000 0000000000000000 000000000000ffff 0000000000000001
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81dadf7d>] free_all_bootmem+0x4b/0x12a
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81d97122>] mem_init+0x70/0xa3
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81d78f21>] start_kernel+0x25b/0x49b

This series is the lowest-risk solution to the problem.

 mm/page_alloc.c | 17 +++--------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

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