Re: [PATCH v1] mm: relax deferred struct page requirements

[Pavel Tatashin]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 9:50 AM Pavel Tatashin
<pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 4:04 AM Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/21/2017, 08:24 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Thu 16-11-17 20:46:01, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> > >> There is no need to have ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT,
> > >> as all the page initialization code is in common code.
> > >>
> > >> Also, there is no need to depend on MEMORY_HOTPLUG, as initialization code
> > >> does not really use hotplug memory functionality. So, we can remove this
> > >> requirement as well.
> > >>
> > >> This patch allows to use deferred struct page initialization on all
> > >> platforms with memblock allocator.
> > >>
> > >> Tested on x86, arm64, and sparc. Also, verified that code compiles on
> > >> PPC with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG disabled.
> > >
> > > There is slight risk that we will encounter corner cases on some
> > > architectures with weird memory layout/topology
> >
> > Which x86_32-pae seems to be. Many bad page state errors are emitted
> > during boot when this patch is applied:
>
> Hi Jiri,
>
> Thank you for reporting this bug.
>
> Because 32-bit systems are limited in the maximum amount of physical
> memory, they don't need deferred struct pages. So, we can add depends
> on 64BIT to DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT in mm/Kconfig.
>
> However, before we do this, I want to try reproducing this problem and
> root cause it, as it might expose a general problem that is not 32-bit
> specific.

Hi Jiri,

Could you please attach your config and full qemu arguments that you
used to reproduce this bug.

Thank you,
Pavel


>
> Thank you,
> Pavel