From: Weijie Yang Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:00:34 +0000 (+0800) Subject: x86, cma: Reserve DMA contiguous area after initmem_init() X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.19/fixes-not-urgent-part1~28^2~5 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c325f8233c35fb35dec3744ba01634aab4ea36a;p=pandora-kernel.git x86, cma: Reserve DMA contiguous area after initmem_init() Fengguang Wu reported a boot crash on the x86 platform via the 0-day Linux Kernel Performance Test: cma: dma_contiguous_reserve: reserving 31 MiB for global area BUG: Int 6: CR2 (null) [<41850786>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [<41d2b1db>] early_idt_handler+0x6b/0x6b [<41072227>] ? __phys_addr+0x2e/0xca [<41d4ee4d>] cma_declare_contiguous+0x3c/0x2d7 [<41d6d359>] dma_contiguous_reserve_area+0x27/0x47 [<41d6d4d1>] dma_contiguous_reserve+0x158/0x163 [<41d33e0f>] setup_arch+0x79b/0xc68 [<41d2b7cf>] start_kernel+0x9c/0x456 [<41d2b2ca>] i386_start_kernel+0x79/0x7d (See details at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/8/708) It is because dma_contiguous_reserve() is called before initmem_init() in x86, the variable high_memory is not initialized but accessed by __pa(high_memory) in dma_contiguous_reserve(). This patch moves dma_contiguous_reserve() after initmem_init() so that high_memory is initialized before accessed. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang Acked-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Cc: 'Linux-MM' Cc: 'Weijie Yang' Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/000101cfef69%2431e528a0%2495af79e0%24%25yang@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed