From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-x231.google.com (mail-qk0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c09::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3wzZkz56q7zDrBg for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:56:59 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-qk0-x231.google.com with SMTP id d78so98377416qkb.1 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:56:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Tejun Heo Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 07:56:50 -0400 From: Tejun Heo To: Michael Ellerman Cc: Eryu Guan , Balbir Singh , liwan@redhat.com, "open list:LINUX FOR POWERPC (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" Subject: Re: kworker with empty task->cpus_allowed (was Re: [v4.12-rc1 regression] mount ext4 fs results in kernel crash on PPC64le host) Message-ID: <20170630115650.GA16820@htj.duckdns.org> References: <20170629034122.GI23360@eguan.usersys.redhat.com> <20170629100533.GQ23360@eguan.usersys.redhat.com> <87efu39he0.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> <20170629113933.GT23360@eguan.usersys.redhat.com> <878tkb9ewo.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> <20170629135919.GU23360@eguan.usersys.redhat.com> <20170629142425.GB3531@htj.duckdns.org> <87k23uqo3d.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <87k23uqo3d.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hello, Michael. On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:08:22AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Tejun Heo writes: > > > Could be the same problem as the one reported in the following thread. > > > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497266622.15415.39.camel@abdul.in.ibm.com > > > > The root cause there is ppc arch code not setting up possible cpu <-> > > numa mapping during boot. > > Huh? > > You changed the workqueue code to avoid that in 2186d9f940b6 > ("workqueue: move wq_numa_init() to workqueue_init()"), didn't you? That was a different issue. This one is cpu <-> numa node mapping not being stable across cpu hotplug. Thanks. -- tejun