Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/page_alloc: Prevent reporting pcp->batch = 0 [mcf5208evb boot failure]

[Daniel Palmer]

Hi Guenter,

On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 at 06:47, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With this patch in the tree, the qemu 'mcf5208evb' machine fails to boot
> with memory errors such as
>
> S01syslogd: page allocation failure: order:7, mode:0xcc0(GFP_KERNEL), nodemask=(null)
> CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 34 Comm: S01syslogd Not tainted 6.19.0-rc1 #1 NONE
> Stack from 407d7ce0:
>         407d7ce0 403df960 403df960 00000000 00000001 00000007 40027c60 403df960
>         400c06be 00000cc0 00000001 407d7d7e 400bf614 407d7d34 403df3ba 407d7d14
>         407d7db8 400c0e5c 00000cc0 00000000 403df3ba 00000007 00000007 00000cc0
>         000d8000 00000018 0000006c 00000001 00000000 40fe6640 00000000 40fe81e4
>         403ffa40 4085eff4 00000000 00000400 00000000 001008c0 00000000 40854041
>         f4fe0000 00004041 f4fe0000 00000000 00010000 403ffa40 4085ed00 4085e800
> Call Trace: [<40027c60>] dump_stack+0xc/0x10
>  [<400c06be>] warn_alloc+0xdc/0x1bc
>  [<400bf614>] get_page_from_freelist+0x0/0xfa6
>  [<400c0e5c>] __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x6be/0x8be
>  [<400c1358>] get_free_pages_noprof+0x16/0x3e

I reported a different issue but with the same change:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAFr9PX=_HaM3_xPtTiBn5Gw5-0xcRpawpJ02NStfdr0khF2k7g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251211102607.2538595-1-daniel@xxxxxxxxx/

Cheers,

Daniel