Borislav Petkov reported his 32bit numa system has problem: [ 0.000000] Reserving total of 4c00 pages for numa KVA remap [ 0.000000] kva_start_pfn ~ 32800 max_low_pfn ~ 375fe [ 0.000000] max_pfn = 238000 [ 0.000000] 8202MB HIGHMEM available. [ 0.000000] 885MB LOWMEM available. [ 0.000000] mapped low ram: 0 - 375fe000 [ 0.000000] low ram: 0 - 375fe000 [ 0.000000] alloc (nid=8 100000 - 7ee00000) (1000000 - ffffffff) 1000 1000 => 34e7000 [ 0.000000] alloc (nid=8 100000 - 7ee00000) (1000000 - ffffffff) 200 40 => 34c9d80 [ 0.000000] alloc (nid=0 100000 - 7ee00000) (1000000 - ffffffffffffffff) 180 40 => 34e6140 [ 0.000000] alloc (nid=1 80000000 - c7e60000) (1000000 - ffffffffffffffff) 240 40 => 80000000 [ 0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 40000000 [ 0.000000] IP: [<c2c8cff1>] __alloc_memory_core_early+0x147/0x1d6 [ 0.000000] *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = f000ff53f000ff00 ... [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c2c8b4f8>] ? __alloc_bootmem_node+0x216/0x22f [ 0.000000] [<c2c90c9b>] ? sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node+0x5a/0x10b [ 0.000000] [<c2c9149e>] ? sparse_init+0x1dc/0x499 [ 0.000000] [<c2c79118>] ? paging_init+0x168/0x1df [ 0.000000] [<c2c780ff>] ? native_pagetable_setup_start+0xef/0x1bb looks like it allocates too much high address for bootmem. Try to cut limit with get_max_mapped() Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Tested-by: Conny Seidel <conny.seidel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.34.x] Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Yinghai Lu