[PATCH] powerpc/mm: Move CMA reservations after initmem_init()
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jun 16 22:00:33 AEST 2022
After commit 11ac3e87ce09 ("mm: cma: use pageblock_order as the single
alignment") there is an error at boot about the KVM CMA reservation
failing, eg:
kvm_cma_reserve: reserving 6553 MiB for global area
cma: Failed to reserve 6553 MiB
That makes it impossible to start KVM guests using the hash MMU with
more than 2G of memory, because the VM is unable to allocate a large
enough region for the hash page table, eg:
$ qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -M pseries -m 4G ...
qemu-system-ppc64: Failed to allocate KVM HPT of order 25: Cannot allocate memory
Aneesh pointed out that this happens because when kvm_cma_reserve() is
called, pageblock_order has not been initialised yet, and is still zero,
causing the checks in cma_init_reserved_mem() against
CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_PAGES to fail.
Fix it by moving the call to kvm_cma_reserve() after initmem_init(). The
pageblock_order is initialised in sparse_init() which is called from
initmem_init().
Also move the hugetlb CMA reservation.
Fixes: 11ac3e87ce09 ("mm: cma: use pageblock_order as the single alignment")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
index eb0077b302e2..1a02629ec70b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -935,12 +935,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
/* Print various info about the machine that has been gathered so far. */
print_system_info();
- /* Reserve large chunks of memory for use by CMA for KVM. */
- kvm_cma_reserve();
-
- /* Reserve large chunks of memory for us by CMA for hugetlb */
- gigantic_hugetlb_cma_reserve();
-
klp_init_thread_info(&init_task);
setup_initial_init_mm(_stext, _etext, _edata, _end);
@@ -955,6 +949,13 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
initmem_init();
+ /*
+ * Reserve large chunks of memory for use by CMA for KVM and hugetlb. These must
+ * be called after initmem_init(), so that pageblock_order is initialised.
+ */
+ kvm_cma_reserve();
+ gigantic_hugetlb_cma_reserve();
+
early_memtest(min_low_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, max_low_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
if (ppc_md.setup_arch)
--
2.35.3
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