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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google•com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte•hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead•org>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp•com>,
	Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: PowerPC boot failures in next-20120521
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 13:03:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120522130354.fdb335eb294f4206b4b2fed5@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205211846120.20916@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

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Hi David,

On Mon, 21 May 2012 18:53:37 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google•com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, it's sched/numa since that's what introduced numa_init().  It does 
> for_each_node() for each node and does a kmalloc_node() even though that 
> node may not be online.  Slub ends up passing this node to the page 
> allocator through alloc_pages_exact_node().  CONFIG_DEBUG_VM would have 
> caught this and your config confirms its not enabled.
> 
> sched/numa either needs a memory hotplug notifier or it needs to pass 
> NUMA_NO_NODE for nodes that aren't online.  Until we get the former, the 
> following should fix it.
> 
> 
> sched, numa: Allocate node_queue on any node for offline nodes
> 
> struct node_queue must be allocated with NUMA_NO_NODE for nodes that are 
> not (yet) online, otherwise the page allocator has a bad zonelist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google•com>

Thanks, that fixes it.

Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb•auug.org.au

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-22  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-22  1:40 linux-next: PowerPC boot failures in next-20120521 Stephen Rothwell
2012-05-22  1:53 ` David Rientjes
2012-05-22  3:03   ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2012-05-22  3:25     ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-05-23  4:17     ` [patch] sched, numa: Allocate node_queue on any node for offline nodes David Rientjes
2012-05-22  2:12 ` linux-next: PowerPC boot failures in next-20120521 Michael Neuling
2012-05-22  2:25   ` David Rientjes
2012-05-22  2:39     ` Michael Neuling
2012-05-22  2:40       ` Michael Neuling
2012-05-22  2:44         ` David Rientjes
2012-05-22  2:51           ` Michael Neuling
2012-05-22  2:58             ` David Rientjes
2012-05-22  3:12               ` Michael Neuling

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