From 11e685672a0861ce136cc4e7f6fdd11e5390b1fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavin Shan Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 14:27:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: disable DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT on !NO_BOOTMEM When we have !NO_BOOTMEM, the deferred page struct initialization doesn't work well because the pages reserved in bootmem are released to the page allocator uncoditionally. It causes memory corruption and system crash eventually. As Mel suggested, the bootmem is retiring slowly. We fix the issue by simply hiding DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT when bootmem is enabled. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460602170-5821-1-git-send-email-gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 22fa8189e4fc..3e2daef3c946 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" default n depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT - depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG + depends on NO_BOOTMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG depends on !FLATMEM help Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a -- 2.39.5