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    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      Merge commit 'jk/jk-merge' · bb3d55e2
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
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    • Jon Tollefson's avatar
      powerpc: Reserve in bootmem lmb reserved regions that cross NUMA nodes · 8f64e1f2
      Jon Tollefson authored
      If there are multiple reserved memory blocks via lmb_reserve() that are
      contiguous addresses and on different NUMA nodes we are losing track of which
      address ranges to reserve in bootmem on which node.  I discovered this
      when I recently got to try 16GB huge pages on a system with more then 2 nodes.
      
      When scanning the device tree in early boot we call lmb_reserve() with
      the addresses of the 16G pages that we find so that the memory doesn't
      get used for something else.  For example the addresses for the pages
      could be 4000000000, 4400000000, 4800000000, 4C00000000, etc - 8 pages,
      one on each of eight nodes.  In the lmb after all the pages have been
      reserved it will look something like the following:
      
      lmb_dump_all:
          memory.cnt            = 0x2
          memory.size           = 0x3e80000000
          memory.region[0x0].base       = 0x0
                            .size     = 0x1e80000000
          memory.region[0x1].base       = 0x4000000000
                            .size     = 0x2000000000
          reserved.cnt          = 0x5
          reserved.size         = 0x3e80000000
          reserved.region[0x0].base       = 0x0
                            .size     = 0x7b5000
          reserved.region[0x1].base       = 0x2a00000
                            .size     = 0x78c000
          reserved.region[0x2].base       = 0x328c000
                            .size     = 0x43000
          reserved.region[0x3].base       = 0xf4e8000
                            .size     = 0xb18000
          reserved.region[0x4].base       = 0x4000000000
                            .size     = 0x2000000000
      
      The reserved.region[0x4] contains the 16G pages.  In
      arch/powerpc/mm/num.c: do_init_bootmem() we loop through each of the
      node numbers looking for the reserved regions that belong to the
      particular node.  It is not able to identify region 0x4 as being a part
      of each of the 8 nodes.  It is assuming that a reserved region is only
      on a single node.
      
      This patch takes out the reserved region loop from inside
      the loop that goes over each node.  It looks up the active region containing
      the start of the reserved region.  If it extends past that active region then
      it adjusts the size and gets the next active region containing it.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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