From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failure due to 'mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary soft limit tree node test'
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:24:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150127172439.GA8623@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1501230908560.15325@gentwo.org>
On Fri 23-01-15 09:17:44, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>
> > Is the assumption of this patch wrong? Does the specified node have
> > to be online for the fallback to work?
Admittedly, I was checking only SLAB allocator when reviewing and
assuming SLUB would behave in the same way :/
But maybe I have misinterpreted the slab code as well and
get_node(struct kmem_cache *, int node) returns non-NULL for !online
nodes.
> Nodes that are offline have no control structures allocated and thus
> allocations will likely segfault when the address of the controls
> structure for the node is accessed.
>
> If we wanted to prevent that then every allocation would have to add a
> check to see if the nodes are online which would impact performance.
I have briefly checked the code and it seems that many users are aware
of this and use the same construct Johannes used in the end or they use
cpu_to_node. But then there are other users doing:
net/openvswitch/flow_table.c:
/* Initialize the default stat node. */
stats = kmem_cache_alloc_node(flow_stats_cache,
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
and this can blow up if Node0 is not online. I haven't checked other
callers but are we sure they all are aware of !online nodes? E.g.
dev_to_node() will return a node which is assigned to a device. I do not
see where exactly this is set to anything else than -1 (I got quickly
lost in set_dev_node callers). E.g. PCI bus sets its affinity from
bus->sysdata which seems to be initialized in pci_acpi_scan_root and
that is checking for an online node. Is it possible that some devices
will get the node from BIOS or by other means?
That being said I have no problem with checking node_online in the memcg
code which was reported to blow up here. I am just thinking whether it
is safe to simply blow up like that.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-27 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-22 23:05 mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04 uploaded akpm
2015-01-23 5:04 ` mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failures due to 'mm: account pmd page tables to the process' Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 11:13 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-23 15:07 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-24 2:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-24 3:05 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-24 5:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-26 12:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-26 14:03 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-26 14:17 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-27 16:16 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-27 16:24 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-27 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-28 6:16 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 5:08 ` mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failure due to 'mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary soft limit tree node test' Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 14:18 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-23 15:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-23 16:02 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-23 16:59 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 17:36 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-23 17:38 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-24 2:02 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-27 17:24 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2015-01-28 15:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-23 15:46 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 16:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-23 20:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-23 20:33 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 21:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-24 7:16 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-25 21:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2015-01-26 13:37 ` Johannes Weiner
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