From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:02:56 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: memblock: free allocated memblock_reserved_regions later
X-Git-Tag: v3.5-rc7~23^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29f6738609e40227dabcc63bfb3b84b3726a75bd;p=pandora-kernel.git

memblock: free allocated memblock_reserved_regions later

memblock_free_reserved_regions() calls memblock_free(), but
memblock_free() would double reserved.regions too, so we could free the
old range for reserved.regions.

Also tj said there is another bug which could be related to this.

| I don't think we're saving any noticeable
| amount by doing this "free - give it to page allocator - reserve
| again" dancing.  We should just allocate regions aligned to page
| boundaries and free them later when memblock is no longer in use.

in that case, when DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, will get panic:

     memblock_free: [0x0000102febc080-0x0000102febf080] memblock_free_reserved_regions+0x37/0x39
  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88102febd948
  IP: [<ffffffff836a5774>] __next_free_mem_range+0x9b/0x155
  PGD 4826063 PUD cf67a067 PMD cf7fa067 PTE 800000102febd160
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  CPU 0
  Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.5.0-rc2-next-20120614-sasha #447
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff836a5774>]  [<ffffffff836a5774>] __next_free_mem_range+0x9b/0x155

See the discussion at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/13/469

So try to allocate with PAGE_SIZE alignment and free it later.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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