Comment # 18 on bug 1039737 from Jochen Hansper

(In reply to Vlastimil Babka from comment #17)
> (In reply to Jochen Hansper from comment #16)
> > I get lots of these now:
> 
> Weird, this part of the second patch should be preventing these errors:
> 
> -#if !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) && !defined(CONFIG_KMEMCHECK)
> +#if !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) && !defined(CONFIG_KMEMCHECK) && 0
> 
> Does your dmesg after boot contain the string "Using GB pages for direct
> mapping" ?

Yes, it does:

Jun 01 19:56:35 mframe kernel: found SMP MP-table at [mem
0x000fcc60-0x000fcc6f] mapped at [ffff8800000fcc60]
Jun 01 19:56:35 mframe kernel: Scanning 1 areas for low memory corruption
Jun 01 19:56:35 mframe kernel: Base memory trampoline at [ffff880000097000]
97000 size 24576
Jun 01 19:56:35 mframe kernel: Using GB pages for direct mapping
Jun 01 19:56:35 mframe kernel: BRK [0x023e0000, 0x023e0fff] PGTABLE
Jun 01 19:56:35 mframe kernel: BRK [0x023e1000, 0x023e1fff] PGTABLE
Jun 01 19:56:35 mframe kernel: BRK [0x023e2000, 0x023e2fff] PGTABLE
Jun 01 19:56:35 mframe kernel: BRK [0x023e3000, 0x023e3fff] PGTABLE
Jun 01 19:56:35 mframe kernel: BRK [0x023e4000, 0x023e4fff] PGTABLE
Jun 01 19:56:35 mframe kernel: BRK [0x023e5000, 0x023e5fff] PGTABLE
Jun 01 19:56:35 mframe kernel: RAMDISK: [mem 0x36b84000-0x375b9fff]

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I've built the patched kernel in a kvm like this:

As root:

Installed default kernel and its sources via Yast2

# mkdir -p /build/src 
# cp -Rp  /usr/src/linux-4.4.62-18.6/* /build/src/
# chmod -R 775 /build/src
# chgrp -R users /build/src

As non-root user dummy:

Applied patches (I just checked that arch/x86/mm/init.c was patched)

#cd /build/src
#cp /boot/config-4.4.62-18.6-default .config
#make rpm

I then copied the rpms in /home/dummy/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 to the real machine
and installed them there.