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Commit 04697858 authored by Yinghai Lu's avatar Yinghai Lu Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: check if section present during memory block registering

Tony Luck found on his setup, if memory block size 512M will cause crash
during booting.

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea0074000020
  IP: get_nid_for_pfn+0x17/0x40
  PGD 128ffcb067 PUD 128ffc9067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.2.0-rc8 #1
  ...
  Call Trace:
     ? register_mem_sect_under_node+0x66/0xe0
     register_one_node+0x17b/0x240
     ? pci_iommu_alloc+0x6e/0x6e
     topology_init+0x3c/0x95
     do_one_initcall+0xcd/0x1f0

The system has non continuous RAM address:
 BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000001300000000-0x0000001cffffffff] usable
 BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000001d70000000-0x0000001ec7ffefff] usable
 BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000001f00000000-0x0000002bffffffff] usable
 BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000002c18000000-0x0000002d6fffefff] usable
 BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000002e00000000-0x00000039ffffffff] usable

So there are start sections in memory block not present.  For example:

    me...
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