Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Octeon: Select CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE

[Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>]

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 14:44 -0400, David Daney wrote:
> Current Octeon systems do in fact have holes in their memory zones.
> We need to select HOLES_IN_ZONE.  If we do not, some memory
> configurations will result in crashes at boot time like this:
> 
> .
> .
> .
> CPU 6 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 
> 0000000000700000, epc == ffffffff8118fe00, ra == ffffffff8118fe9c
> Oops[#1]:
> Cpu 6
> .
> .
> .
>         ...
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff8118fe00>] setup_per_zone_wmarks+0x1b0/0x338
> [<ffffffff815cd738>] init_per_zone_wmark_min+0x64/0xd0
> [<ffffffff81100438>] do_one_initcall+0x38/0x160
> .
> .
> .
> 
> Reported-by: Jason Kwon <jason.kwon@ericsson.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> Cc: Jason Kwon <jason.kwon@ericsson.com>
> ---
> Jason, can you test this patch?
> 
> Ralf, if Jason reports that it fixes his problem, it probably is
> needed for 3.0 and 3.1.
> 

Your patch fixes the problem for the board with CN38xx and 2GB RAM that
crashed previously.

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>

Thanks a lot for looking into this.

Guenter