linux/arch/arm64
Marc Zyngier 31f80a4e96 arm64: Warn the user when a small VA_BITS value wastes memory
The memblock code ignores any memory that doesn't fit in the
linear mapping. In order to preserve the distance between two physical
memory locations and their mappings in the linear map, any hole between
two memory regions occupies the same space in the linear map.

On most systems, this is hardly a problem (the memory banks are close
together, and VA_BITS represents a large space compared to the available
memory *and* the potential gaps).

On NUMA systems, things are quite different: the gaps between the
memory nodes can be pretty large compared to the memory size itself,
and the range from memblock_start_of_DRAM() to memblock_end_of_DRAM()
can exceed the space described by VA_BITS.

Unfortunately, we're not very good at making this obvious to the user,
and on a D05 system (two sockets and 4 nodes with 64GB each)
accidentally configured with 39bit VA, we display something like this:

[    0.000000] NUMA: NODE_DATA [mem 0x1ffbffe100-0x1ffbffffff]
[    0.000000] NUMA: NODE_DATA [mem 0x2febfc1100-0x2febfc2fff]
[    0.000000] NUMA: Initmem setup node 2 [<memory-less node>]
[    0.000000] NUMA: NODE_DATA [mem 0x2febfbf200-0x2febfc10ff]
[    0.000000] NUMA: NODE_DATA(2) on node 1
[    0.000000] NUMA: Initmem setup node 3 [<memory-less node>]
[    0.000000] NUMA: NODE_DATA [mem 0x2febfbd300-0x2febfbf1ff]
[    0.000000] NUMA: NODE_DATA(3) on node 1

which isn't very explicit, and doesn't tell the user why 128GB
have suddently disappeared.

Let's add a warning message telling the user that memory has been
truncated, and offer a potential solution (bumping VA_BITS up).

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201215152918.1511108-1-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2020-12-15 16:27:48 +00:00
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boot Amlogic fixes for v5.10-rc1 2020-10-27 10:44:11 +01:00
configs arm64: defconfig: Build in CONFIG_GPIO_MXC by default 2020-10-26 15:48:58 +08:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-10-13 08:50:16 -07:00
include arm64: entry: suppress W=1 prototype warnings 2020-12-15 12:38:02 +00:00
kernel arm64: topology: Drop the useless update to per-cpu cycles 2020-12-15 12:37:59 +00:00
kvm Merge branches 'for-next/kvm-build-fix', 'for-next/va-refactor', 'for-next/lto', 'for-next/mem-hotplug', 'for-next/cppc-ffh', 'for-next/pad-image-header', 'for-next/zone-dma-default-32-bit', 'for-next/signal-tag-bits' and 'for-next/cmdline-extended' into for-next/core 2020-12-09 18:04:35 +00:00
lib arm64: uaccess cleanup macro naming 2020-12-02 19:49:11 +00:00
mm arm64: Warn the user when a small VA_BITS value wastes memory 2020-12-15 16:27:48 +00:00
net arm64: bpf: Fix branch offset in JIT 2020-09-17 12:05:36 +01:00
xen
Kbuild
Kconfig Merge remote-tracking branch 'arm64/for-next/perf' into for-next/core 2020-12-09 18:04:48 +00:00
Kconfig.debug arm64: remove TEXT_OFFSET randomization 2020-06-15 13:10:59 +01:00
Kconfig.platforms arm64: berlin: Select DW_APB_TIMER_OF 2020-10-26 10:45:03 +01:00
Makefile More arm64 updates for 5.10 2020-10-23 09:46:16 -07:00