Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] mm: fix regression with deferred struct page init

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri 28-06-19 19:38:13, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 28.06.19 17:17, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 20-06-19 18:08:21, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > > Commit 0e56acae4b4dd4a9 ("mm: initialize MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time
> > > instead of doing larger sections") is causing a regression on some
> > > systems when the kernel is booted as Xen dom0.
> > > 
> > > The system will just hang in early boot.
> > > 
> > > Reason is an endless loop in get_page_from_freelist() in case the first
> > > zone looked at has no free memory. deferred_grow_zone() is always
> > 
> > Could you explain how we ended up with the zone having no memory? Is
> > xen "stealing" memblock memory without adding it to memory.reserved?
> > In other words, how do we end up with an empty zone that has non zero
> > end_pfn?
> 
> Why do you think Xen is stealing the memory in an odd way?
> 
> Doesn't deferred_init_mem_pfn_range_in_zone() return false when no free
> memory is found? So exactly if the memory was added to memory.reserved
> that will happen.

You are right. I managed to confuse myself and thought that __next_mem_range
return index to both memblock types. But I am wrong here and it excludes
type_b regions. I should have read the documentation. My bad and sorry
for the confusion.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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