Booting SPARSEMEM on NUMA systems trips a BUG in page_alloc.c:
Initializing HighMem for node 0 (
00038000:
00100000)
Initializing HighMem for node 1 (
00100000:
001ffe00)
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kernel BUG at /home/apw/git/linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c:456!
[...]
This occurs because the section to node id mapping is not being
setup correctly during init under SPARSEMEM_STATIC, leading to an
attempt to free pages from all nodes into the zones on node 0.
When the zone_table[] was removed in the following commit, a new
section to node mapping table was introduced:
commit
89689ae7f95995723fbcd5c116c47933a3bb8b13
[PATCH] Get rid of zone_table[]
That conversion inadvertantly only initialised the node mapping in
SPARSEMEM_EXTREME. Ensure we initialise the node mapping in
SPARSEMEM_STATIC.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make the stubs static inline]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
return section_to_node_table[page_to_section(page)];
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_to_nid);
+
+static void set_section_nid(unsigned long section_nr, int nid)
+{
+ section_to_node_table[section_nr] = nid;
+}
+#else /* !NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS */
+static inline void set_section_nid(unsigned long section_nr, int nid)
+{
+}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
struct mem_section *section;
int ret = 0;
-#ifdef NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS
- section_to_node_table[section_nr] = nid;
-#endif
-
if (mem_section[root])
return -EEXIST;
struct mem_section *ms;
sparse_index_init(section, nid);
+ set_section_nid(section, nid);
ms = __nr_to_section(section);
if (!ms->section_mem_map)