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Commit0e56acae4b("mm: initialize MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time instead of doing larger sections") is causing a regression on some systems when the kernel is booted as Xen dom0. The system will just hang in early boot. Reason is an endless loop in get_page_from_freelist() in case the first zone looked at has no free memory. deferred_grow_zone() is always returning true due to the following code snipplet: /* If the zone is empty somebody else may have cleared out the zone */ if (!deferred_init_mem_pfn_range_in_zone(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn, first_deferred_pfn)) { pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX; pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags); return true; } This in turn results in the loop as get_page_from_freelist() is assuming forward progress can be made by doing some more struct page initialization. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190620160821.4210-1-jgross@suse.com Fixes:0e56acae4b("mm: initialize MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time instead of doing larger sections") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.