Re: [Bug] [2.6.18-rc5-mm1] system no boot early death x86_64

[Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, keith mannthey wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 11:20 -0700, keith mannthey wrote:
> > Hello,
> >   I was booting rc4-mm3.  With rc5-mm1 I am hanging early... Mel I don't
> > know if this is related to your code but I will soon know. (I don't get
> > your debug info in early console.)
> >   I was working on patches for the reserve based memory hot add path in
> > srat.c (the initial error is fixed by Mels patches but there is more to
> > do)

That is some good news at least.

> and was just moving to rc5-mm1 to sync up and then more trouble.
> > This is with reserve based hot-add not enabled at the command line.
>
>
> Well this isn't fully adding up but here is what I found.
>
> If I drop
> x86_64-mm-drop-640k-reservation.patch
> x86_64-mm-remove-e820-fallback.patch
> and
> x86_64-mm-remove-e820-fallback-fix.patch
>
> I build and boot.  All files in the series upto x86_64-mm-drop-640k-
> reservation.patch work just fine.  Dropping this patch makes things
> better. The e820 patches were removed to make the rest of the series
> apply.

I am having trouble reproducing this. However, I recently got access to a 
machine similar to yours. I can say that sometimes the stability of 
2.6.18-rc4-mm3 and 2.6.18-rc5-mm1 was totally useless (but the symptons 
different to yours) and the box would easily crash for reasons I could not 
pin down. As stability problems had been reported on the machine earlier 
by other users, I was inclined to blame the hardware. Now I'm not sure.

> It is not clear what changes would cause me to die setting up the
> bootmem allocator on my first node...

Unless your machine really has something special in the low 640K that is 
required and bad things happen if it's written to at a bad time.

> I know x86_64-mm-drop-640k-reservation.patch has been around for a
> while.
>
> any ideas?

None so far, I'll keep hitting the machine I have to see if I can find 
something more useful but I'm not very optimistic I'll pin it down.

> Thanks,
>  Keith
>
> (from a working boot)
>
> disabling early console
> Linux version 2.6.18-rc5-mm1-smp (root@elm3a153) (gcc version 4.1.0
> (SUSE Linux)) #13 SMP Thu Sep 7 19:15:00 EDT 2006
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000098400 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000098400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007ff85e00 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 000000007ff85e00 - 000000007ff98880 (ACPI data)
> BIOS-e820: 000000007ff98880 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000470000000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 0000001070000000 - 0000001160000000 (usable)
> Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 152) 0 entries of 3200 used
> Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 524165) 1 entries of 3200 used
> Entering add_active_range(0, 1048576, 4653056) 2 entries of 3200 used
> Entering add_active_range(0, 17235968, 18219008) 3 entries of 3200 used
> end_pfn_map = 18219008
> DMI 2.3 present.
> ACPI: RSDP (v000 IBM                                   ) @
> 0x00000000000fdcf0
> ACPI: RSDT (v001 IBM    EXA01ZEU 0x00001000 IBM  0x45444f43) @
> 0x000000007ff98800
> ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM    EXA01ZEU 0x00001000 IBM  0x45444f43) @
> 0x000000007ff98780
> ACPI: MADT (v001 IBM    EXA01ZEU 0x00001000 IBM  0x45444f43) @
> 0x000000007ff98600
> ACPI: SRAT (v001 IBM    EXA01ZEU 0x00001000 IBM  0x45444f43) @
> 0x000000007ff983c0
> ACPI: HPET (v001 IBM    EXA01ZEU 0x00001000 IBM  0x45444f43) @
> 0x000000007ff98380
> ACPI: SSDT (v001 IBM    VIGSSDT0 0x00001000 INTL 0x20030122) @
> 0x000000007ff90780
> ACPI: SSDT (v001 IBM    VIGSSDT1 0x00001000 INTL 0x20030122) @
> 0x000000007ff88bc0
> ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM    EXA01ZEU 0x00001000 INTL 0x20030122) @
> 0x0000000000000000
> SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0 -> Node 0
> SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 1 -> Node 0
> SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 2 -> Node 0
> SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 3 -> Node 0
> SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 38 -> Node 0
> SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 39 -> Node 0
> SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 36 -> Node 0
> SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 37 -> Node 0
> SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 64 -> Node 1
> SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 65 -> Node 1
> SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 66 -> Node 1
> SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 67 -> Node 1
> SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 102 -> Node 1
> SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 103 -> Node 1
> SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 100 -> Node 1
> SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 101 -> Node 1
> SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 0-80000000
> Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 152) 0 entries of 3200 used
> Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 524165) 1 entries of 3200 used
> SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 0-470000000
> Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 152) 2 entries of 3200 used
> Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 524165) 2 entries of 3200 used
> Entering add_active_range(0, 1048576, 4653056) 2 entries of 3200 used
> SRAT: Node 1 PXM 1 1070000000-1160000000
> Entering add_active_range(1, 17235968, 18219008) 3 entries of 3200 used
> NUMA: Using 36 for the hash shift.
> Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000470000000
> Bootmem setup node 1 0000001070000000-0000001160000000
> Zone PFN ranges:
>  DMA             0 ->     4096
>  DMA32        4096 ->  1048576
>  Normal    1048576 -> 18219008
> early_node_map[4] active PFN ranges
>    0:        0 ->      152
>    0:      256 ->   524165
>    0:  1048576 ->  4653056
>    1: 17235968 -> 18219008
> On node 0 totalpages: 4128541

--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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