releases/3.2.14/bootmem-sparsemem-remove-limit-constraint-in-alloc_bootmem_section.patch

From f5bf18fa22f8c41a13eb8762c7373eb3a93a7333 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:34:07 -0700
Subject: bootmem/sparsemem: remove limit constraint in alloc_bootmem_section

From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit f5bf18fa22f8c41a13eb8762c7373eb3a93a7333 upstream.

While testing AMS (Active Memory Sharing) / CMO (Cooperative Memory
Overcommit) on powerpc, we tripped the following:

  kernel BUG at mm/bootmem.c:483!
  cpu 0x0: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000000c03940]
      pc: c000000000a62bd8: .alloc_bootmem_core+0x90/0x39c
      lr: c000000000a64bcc: .sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node+0x84/0x29c
      sp: c000000000c03bc0
     msr: 8000000000021032
    current = 0xc000000000b0cce0
    paca    = 0xc000000001d80000
      pid   = 0, comm = swapper
  kernel BUG at mm/bootmem.c:483!
  enter ? for help
  [c000000000c03c80] c000000000a64bcc
  .sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node+0x84/0x29c
  [c000000000c03d50] c000000000a64f10 .sparse_init+0x12c/0x28c
  [c000000000c03e20] c000000000a474f4 .setup_arch+0x20c/0x294
  [c000000000c03ee0] c000000000a4079c .start_kernel+0xb4/0x460
  [c000000000c03f90] c000000000009670 .start_here_common+0x1c/0x2c

This is

        BUG_ON(limit && goal + size > limit);

and after some debugging, it seems that

	goal = 0x7ffff000000
	limit = 0x80000000000

and sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node ->
sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section calls

	return alloc_bootmem_section(usemap_size() * count, section_nr);

This is on a system with 8TB available via the AMS pool, and as a quirk
of AMS in firmware, all of that memory shows up in node 0.  So, we end
up with an allocation that will fail the goal/limit constraints.

In theory, we could "fall-back" to alloc_bootmem_node() in
sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node(), but since we actually have HOTREMOVE
defined, we'll BUG_ON() instead.  A simple solution appears to be to
unconditionally remove the limit condition in alloc_bootmem_section,
meaning allocations are allowed to cross section boundaries (necessary
for systems of this size).

Johannes Weiner pointed out that if alloc_bootmem_section() no longer
guarantees section-locality, we need check_usemap_section_nr() to print
possible cross-dependencies between node descriptors and the usemaps
allocated through it.  That makes the two loops in
sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node() identical, so re-factor the code a
bit.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: code simplification]
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/bootmem.c |    5 ++---
 mm/sparse.c  |   30 +++++++++++-------------------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/bootmem.c
+++ b/mm/bootmem.c
@@ -768,14 +768,13 @@ void * __init alloc_bootmem_section(unsi
 				    unsigned long section_nr)
 {
 	bootmem_data_t *bdata;
-	unsigned long pfn, goal, limit;
+	unsigned long pfn, goal;
 
 	pfn = section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr);
 	goal = pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
-	limit = section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr + 1) << PAGE_SHIFT;
 	bdata = &bootmem_node_data[early_pfn_to_nid(pfn)];
 
-	return alloc_bootmem_core(bdata, size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, goal, limit);
+	return alloc_bootmem_core(bdata, size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, goal, 0);
 }
 #endif
 
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -353,29 +353,21 @@ static void __init sparse_early_usemaps_
 
 	usemap = sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section(NODE_DATA(nodeid),
 								 usemap_count);
-	if (usemap) {
-		for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end; pnum++) {
-			if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
-				continue;
-			usemap_map[pnum] = usemap;
-			usemap += size;
+	if (!usemap) {
+		usemap = alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(nodeid), size * usemap_count);
+		if (!usemap) {
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: allocation failed\n", __func__);
+			return;
 		}
-		return;
 	}
 
-	usemap = alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(nodeid), size * usemap_count);
-	if (usemap) {
-		for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end; pnum++) {
-			if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
-				continue;
-			usemap_map[pnum] = usemap;
-			usemap += size;
-			check_usemap_section_nr(nodeid, usemap_map[pnum]);
-		}
-		return;
+	for (pnum = pnum_begin; pnum < pnum_end; pnum++) {
+		if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
+			continue;
+		usemap_map[pnum] = usemap;
+		usemap += size;
+		check_usemap_section_nr(nodeid, usemap_map[pnum]);
 	}
-
-	printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: allocation failed\n", __func__);
 }
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP