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    powerpc: Fix bootmem reservation on uninitialized node · a4c74ddd
    Dave Hansen authored
    careful_allocation() was calling into the bootmem allocator for
    nodes which had not been fully initialized and caused a previous
    bug:  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/10528/
    
      So, I merged a
    few broken out loops in do_init_bootmem() to fix it.  That changed
    the code ordering.
    
    I think this bug is triggered by having reserved areas for a node
    which are spanned by another node's contents.  In the
    mark_reserved_regions_for_nid() code, we attempt to reserve the
    area for a node before we have allocated the NODE_DATA() for that
    nid.  We do this since I reordered that loop.  I suck.
    
    This is causing crashes at bootup on some systems, as reported
    by Jon Tollefson.
    
    This may only present on some systems that have 16GB pages
    reserved.  But, it can probably happen on any system that is
    trying to reserve large swaths of memory that happen to span other
    nodes' contents.
    
    This commit ensures that we do not touch bootmem for any node which
    has not been initialized, and also removes a compile warning about
    an unused variable.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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