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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2008-05-14 19:05:52 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-05-14 22:11:15 -0400
commit76cdd58e558669366adfaded436fda01b30cce3e (patch)
treedeaccb499752c928919693edea65f9ea4c1fe756 /mm/page_alloc.c
parent1c12c4cf9411eb130b245fa8d0fbbaf989477c7b (diff)
memory_hotplug: always initialize pageblock bitmap
Trying to online a new memory section that was added via memory hotplug sometimes results in crashes when the new pages are added via __free_page. Reason for that is that the pageblock bitmap isn't initialized and hence contains random stuff. That means that get_pageblock_migratetype() returns also random stuff and therefore list_add(&page->lru, &zone->free_area[order].free_list[migratetype]); in __free_one_page() tries to do a list_add to something that isn't even necessarily a list. This happens since 86051ca5eaf5e560113ec7673462804c54284456 ("mm: fix usemap initialization") which makes sure that the pageblock bitmap gets only initialized for pages present in a zone. Unfortunately for hot-added memory the zones "grow" after the memmap and the pageblock memmap have been initialized. Which means that the new pages have an unitialized bitmap. To solve this the calls to grow_zone_span() and grow_pgdat_span() are moved to __add_zone() just before the initialization happens. The patch also moves the two functions since __add_zone() is the only caller and I didn't want to add a forward declaration. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index bdd5c432c426..63835579323a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2862,8 +2862,6 @@ __meminit int init_currently_empty_zone(struct zone *zone,
2862 2862
2863 zone->zone_start_pfn = zone_start_pfn; 2863 zone->zone_start_pfn = zone_start_pfn;
2864 2864
2865 memmap_init(size, pgdat->node_id, zone_idx(zone), zone_start_pfn);
2866
2867 zone_init_free_lists(zone); 2865 zone_init_free_lists(zone);
2868 2866
2869 return 0; 2867 return 0;
@@ -3433,6 +3431,7 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
3433 ret = init_currently_empty_zone(zone, zone_start_pfn, 3431 ret = init_currently_empty_zone(zone, zone_start_pfn,
3434 size, MEMMAP_EARLY); 3432 size, MEMMAP_EARLY);
3435 BUG_ON(ret); 3433 BUG_ON(ret);
3434 memmap_init(size, nid, j, zone_start_pfn);
3436 zone_start_pfn += size; 3435 zone_start_pfn += size;
3437 } 3436 }
3438} 3437}