Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] hugetlb: restructure pool allocations

[Konrad Dybcio]

On 10/10/23 02:07, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2023 08:15:13 -0700 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > This should also be empty and a noop.
> > >
> > > Is it possible that the misaligned kernel image could make these lists
> > > appear as non-empty?
> >
> > Actually, just saw this:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231009145605.2150897-1-usama.arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Will take a look, although as mentioned above prep_and_add_bootmem_folios on
> > an empty list should be a noop.
>
> Konrad, are you able to test Usama's patch?  Thanks.
I legitimately spent a sad amount of time trying to regain access to the 
remote board farm. Previously I could hit the bug on SM8550, but now I 
can't do it on SM8450, SM8350 and SM8250 (previous gens), with the same 
config.. I have no idea when I'll be able to get access to SM8550 again.

I did test it on the QCM6490 Fairphone 5 that I initially reported this 
on, and neither booting next-20231010 (with your patchset applied) nor 
adding the below patch on top of it seems to work. I can't get serial 
output from this device though to find out what it's unhappy about :/

Konrad