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mm: zone_end_pfn is too small
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Booting with 32 TBytes memory hits BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:552! (output
below).

The key hint is "page 4294967296 outside zone".
4294967296 = 0x100000000 (bit 32 is set).

The problem is in include/linux/mmzone.h:

  530 static inline unsigned zone_end_pfn(const struct zone *zone)
  531 {
  532         return zone->zone_start_pfn + zone->spanned_pages;
  533 }

zone_end_pfn is "unsigned" (32 bits).  Changing it to "unsigned long"
(64 bits) fixes the problem.

zone_end_pfn() was added recently in commit 108bcc9 ("mm: add & use
zone_end_pfn() and zone_spans_pfn()")

Output from the failure.

  No AGP bridge found
  page 4294967296 outside zone [ 4294967296 - 4327469056 ]
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:552!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU 0
  Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.9.0-rc2.dtp+ #10
  RIP: free_one_page+0x382/0x430
  Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81942000, task ffffffff81955420)
  Call Trace:
    __free_pages_ok+0x96/0xb0
    __free_pages+0x25/0x50
    __free_pages_bootmem+0x8a/0x8c
    __free_memory_core+0xea/0x131
    free_low_memory_core_early+0x4a/0x98
    free_all_bootmem+0x45/0x47
    mem_init+0x7b/0x14c
    start_kernel+0x216/0x433
    x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
    x86_64_start_kernel+0x144/0x153
  Code: 89 f1 ba 01 00 00 00 31 f6 d3 e2 4c 89 ef e8 66 a4 01 00 e9 2c fe ff ff 0f 0b eb fe 0f 0b 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 eb f3 <0f> 0b eb fe 0f 0b 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 eb f6 0f 0b eb fe 49

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Reported-by: George Beshers <gbeshers@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Russ Anderson authored and torvalds committed Mar 22, 2013
1 parent 2ca067e commit f9228b2
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion include/linux/mmzone.h
Expand Up @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ static inline int zone_is_oom_locked(const struct zone *zone)
return test_bit(ZONE_OOM_LOCKED, &zone->flags);
}

static inline unsigned zone_end_pfn(const struct zone *zone)
static inline unsigned long zone_end_pfn(const struct zone *zone)
{
return zone->zone_start_pfn + zone->spanned_pages;
}
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