Re: [PATCH 5/6] Have ia64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
>
> Size zones and holes in an architecture independent manner for ia64.
> 

This one makes my ia64 die very early in boot.   The trace is pretty useless.

config at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/config-ia64

EFI v1.10 by INTEL: SALsystab=0x3fe4c8c0 ACPI=0x3ff84000 ACPI 2.0=0x3ff83000 MP0
Early serial console at I/O port 0x2f8 (options '9600n8')
SAL 3.1: Intel Corp                       SR870BN4                         vers0
SAL Platform features: BusLock IRQ_Redirection
SAL: AP wakeup using external interrupt vector 0xf0
No logical to physical processor mapping available
iosapic_system_init: Disabling PC-AT compatible 8259 interrupts
ACPI: Local APIC address c0000000fee00000
PLATFORM int CPEI (0x3): GSI 22 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0xc618) vector 30
register_intr: changing vector 39 from IO-SAPIC-edge to IO-SAPIC-level
4 CPUs available, 4 CPUs total
MCA related initialization done
node 0 zone DMA missaligned start pfn, enable UNALIGNED_ZONE_BOUNDRIES
node 0 zone DMA32 missaligned start pfn, enable UNALIGNED_ZONE_BOUNDRIES
node 0 zone Normal missaligned start pfn, enable UNALIGNED_ZONE_BOUNDRIES
node 0 zone HighMem missaligned start pfn, enable UNALIGNED_ZONE_BOUNDRIES
SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=scsi0:\EFI\redhat\vmlinuz-2.6.17-rc4-mm1 root=/o
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 6, 1048576 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 5, 524288 bytes)
Placing software IO TLB between 0x4a30000 - 0x8a30000
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference (address 0000000000000008)
swapper[0]: Oops 8813272891392 [1]
Modules linked in:

Pid: 0, CPU 0, comm:              swapper
psr : 00001010084a6010 ifs : 800000000000060f ip  : [<a0000001000e6750>]    Notd
ip is at __free_pages_ok+0x190/0x3c0
unat: 0000000000000000 pfs : 000000000000060f rsc : 0000000000000003
rnat: 0000000000ffffff bsps: 00000000000002f9 pr  : 80000000afb5956b
ldrs: 0000000000000000 ccv : 0000000000000000 fpsr: 0009804c8a70433f
csd : 0930ffff00090000 ssd : 0930ffff00090000
b0  : a0000001000e6660 b6  : e00000003fe52940 b7  : a000000100790120
f6  : 1003e6db6db6db6db6db7 f7  : 1003e000000000006dec0
f8  : 1003e000000000000fb80 f9  : 1003e000000000006e080
f10 : 1003e000000000000fb40 f11 : 1003e000000000006dec0
r1  : a000000100af2db0 r2  : 0000000000000001 r3  : 0000000000000000
r8  : a0000001008f3d38 r9  : 0000000000004000 r10 : 0000000000370400
r11 : 0000000000004000 r12 : a0000001007b7e10 r13 : a0000001007b0000
r14 : 0000000000000001 r15 : 0000000100000001 r16 : 0000000100000001
r17 : 0000000100000001 r18 : 0000000000001041 r19 : 0000000000000000
r20 : e00000000149df00 r21 : 0000000100000000 r22 : 0000000055555155
r23 : 00000000ffffffff r24 : e00000000149df08 r25 : 1555555555555155
r26 : 0000000000000032 r27 : 0000000000000000 r28 : 0000000000000008
r29 : 0000000000001041 r30 : 0000000000001041 r31 : 0000000000000001
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference (address 0000000000000000)
swapper[0]: Oops 8813272891392 [2]
Modules linked in:

Pid: 0, CPU 0, comm:              swapper
psr : 0000101008022018 ifs : 8000000000000287 ip  : [<a0000001001236c0>]    Notd
ip is at kmem_cache_alloc+0x40/0x100
unat: 0000000000000000 pfs : 0000000000000712 rsc : 0000000000000003
rnat: 0000000000000000 bsps: 0000000000000000 pr  : 80000000afb59967
ldrs: 0000000000000000 ccv : 0000000000000000 fpsr: 0009804c8a70033f
csd : 0930ffff00090000 ssd : 0930ffff00090000
b0  : a00000010003e450 b6  : a000000100001b50 b7  : a00000010003f320
f6  : 1003e9e3779b97f4a7c16 f7  : 0ffdb8000000000000000
f8  : 1003e000000000000007f f9  : 1003e0000000000000379
f10 : 1003e6db6db6db6db6db7 f11 : 1003e000000000000007f
r1  : a000000100af2db0 r2  : 0000000000000000 r3  : 0000000000000000
r8  : 0000000000000000 r9  : 0000000000000000 r10 : a0000001007b0f24
r11 : 0000000000000000 r12 : a0000001007b7280 r13 : a0000001007b0000
r14 : 0000000000000000 r15 : 0000000000000000 r16 : a0000001007b7310
r17 : 0000000000000000 r18 : a0000001007b7478 r19 : 0000000000000000
r20 : 0000000000000000 r21 : 0000000000000018 r22 : 0000000000000000
r23 : 0000000000000000 r24 : 0000000000000000 r25 : a0000001007b7308
r26 : 000000007fffffff r27 : a000000100825520 r28 : a0000001008f3c40
r29 : a000000100816ca8 r30 : 0000000000000018 r31 : 0000000000000018



(gdb) l *0xa0000001000e6750
0xa0000001000e6750 is in __free_pages_ok (mm.h:324).
319     extern void FASTCALL(__page_cache_release(struct page *));
320     
321     static inline int page_count(struct page *page)
322     {
323             if (unlikely(PageCompound(page)))
324                     page = (struct page *)page_private(page);
325             return atomic_read(&page->_count);
326     }
327     
328     static inline void get_page(struct page *page)


Note the misaligned pfns.

Andy's (misspelled) CONFIG_UNALIGNED_ZONE_BOUNDRIES patch didn't actually
include an update to any Kconfig files.  But hacking that in by hand didn't
help.

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