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Commit ce6ee46e authored by Mike Rapoport's avatar Mike Rapoport Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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mm/page_alloc: fix memory map initialization for descending nodes

commit 122e093c upstream.

On systems with memory nodes sorted in descending order, for instance Dell
Precision WorkStation T5500, the struct pages for higher PFNs and
respectively lower nodes, could be overwritten by the initialization of
struct pages corresponding to the holes in the memory sections.

For example for the below memory layout

[    0.245624] Early memory node ranges
[    0.248496]   node   1: [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000090fff]
[    0.251376]   node   1: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000dbdf8fff]
[    0.254256]   node   1: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x0000001423ffffff]
[    0.257144]   node   0: [mem 0x0000001424000000-0x0000002023ffffff]

the range 0x1424000000 - 0x1428000000 in the beginning of node 0 starts in
the middle of a section and will be considered as a hole during the
initialization of the last section in node 1.

The wrong initialization of the memory map causes panic on bo...
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