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SubjectRe: [tip:sched/core] sched/numa: Rewrite the CONFIG_NUMA sched domain support
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LKP performance set 'mem=2g' for some benchmarks, that cmdline hit
kernel panic on __alloc_pages_mask on 3.5-rc1. and this patch can fix
it.
Thanks!

reported-tested-by alex.shi@intel.com


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 14:23 -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
>> Changing both the kzalloc_node() calls in sched_init_numa()
>> into plain kzalloc() calls seems to fix things. So it looks like we are trying
>> to allocate on a node before the node has been fully set up.
>
> Right,.. and its not too important either, so lets just use regular
> allocations.
>
> That said, I can only find the 1 alloc_node() in sched_init_numa()
>
>
> ---
> Subject: sched: Don't try allocating memory from offline nodes
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Fri May 25 09:26:43 CEST 2012
>
> Allocators don't appreciate it when you try and allocate memory from
> offline nodes.
>
> Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/core.c |    6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched/core.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -6449,7 +6449,7 @@ static void sched_init_numa(void)
>                        return;
>
>                for (j = 0; j < nr_node_ids; j++) {
> -                       struct cpumask *mask = kzalloc_node(cpumask_size(), GFP_KERNEL, j);
> +                       struct cpumask *mask = kzalloc(cpumask_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
>                        if (!mask)
>                                return;
>
>
>
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