[PATCHv2 0/3] mm: bugfix for NULL reference in mm on all archs

[PATCHv2 0/3] mm: bugfix for NULL reference in mm on all archs

[Pingfan Liu]

This bug is original reported at https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1020838/
In a short word, this bug should affect all archs, where a machine with a
numa-node having no memory, if nr_cpus prevents the instance of nodeA, and the
device on nodeA tries to allocate memory with device->numa_node info.
And node_zonelist(preferred_nid, gfp_mask) will panic due to uninstanced nodeA.

And there are two alternative methods to fix it.
-1st. Fix it in mm system
-2nd. Fix it in all archs independently, by online all possible nodes.

Originaly, I tries to fix it by the 1st method, while Michal suggests the 2nd one.
This series [1-2/3] tries to resolve some defect in v1, pointed out by Michal.
For discussion purpose, I send [3/3] in this thread, which tries to show e.g of
the 2nd method on powerpc platform.
For x86, I still help Michal to verify his patch on my test machine, please see:
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/comment/1208479/
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/comment/1210452/

It has already cost a little long time to find a solution, cc x86 and ppc mailing list
and hope their maintainers to give some suggestion to speed up the final solution.

Pingfan Liu (3):
  mm/numa: change the topo of build_zonelist_xx()
  mm/numa: build zonelist when alloc for device on offline node
  powerpc/numa: make all possible node be instanced against NULL
    reference in node_zonelist()

 arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c | 13 ++++++--
 include/linux/gfp.h    | 10 +++++-
 mm/page_alloc.c        | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 3 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
-- 
2.7.4

[PATCHv2 1/3] mm/numa: change the topo of build_zonelist_xx()

[Pingfan Liu]

The current build_zonelist_xx func relies on pgdat instance to build
zonelist, if a numa node is offline, there will no pgdat instance for it.
But in some case, there is still requirement for zonelist of offline node,
especially with nr_cpus option.
This patch change these funcs topo to ease the building of zonelist for
offline nodes.

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 2ec9cc4..17dbf6e 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5049,7 +5049,7 @@ static void zoneref_set_zone(struct zone *zone, struct zoneref *zoneref)
  *
  * Add all populated zones of a node to the zonelist.
  */
-static int build_zonerefs_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct zoneref *zonerefs)
+static int build_zonerefs_node(int nid, struct zoneref *zonerefs)
 {
 	struct zone *zone;
 	enum zone_type zone_type = MAX_NR_ZONES;
@@ -5057,7 +5057,7 @@ static int build_zonerefs_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct zoneref *zonerefs)
 
 	do {
 		zone_type--;
-		zone = pgdat->node_zones + zone_type;
+		zone = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones + zone_type;
 		if (managed_zone(zone)) {
 			zoneref_set_zone(zone, &zonerefs[nr_zones++]);
 			check_highest_zone(zone_type);
@@ -5186,20 +5186,20 @@ static int find_next_best_node(int node, nodemask_t *used_node_mask)
  * This results in maximum locality--normal zone overflows into local
  * DMA zone, if any--but risks exhausting DMA zone.
  */
-static void build_zonelists_in_node_order(pg_data_t *pgdat, int *node_order,
-		unsigned nr_nodes)
+static void build_zonelists_in_node_order(struct zonelist *node_zonelists,
+	int *node_order, unsigned int nr_nodes)
 {
 	struct zoneref *zonerefs;
 	int i;
 
-	zonerefs = pgdat->node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK]._zonerefs;
+	zonerefs = node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK]._zonerefs;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_nodes; i++) {
 		int nr_zones;
 
 		pg_data_t *node = NODE_DATA(node_order[i]);
 
-		nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(node, zonerefs);
+		nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(node->node_id, zonerefs);
 		zonerefs += nr_zones;
 	}
 	zonerefs->zone = NULL;
@@ -5209,13 +5209,14 @@ static void build_zonelists_in_node_order(pg_data_t *pgdat, int *node_order,
 /*
  * Build gfp_thisnode zonelists
  */
-static void build_thisnode_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
+static void build_thisnode_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists,
+	int nid)
 {
 	struct zoneref *zonerefs;
 	int nr_zones;
 
-	zonerefs = pgdat->node_zonelists[ZONELIST_NOFALLBACK]._zonerefs;
-	nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(pgdat, zonerefs);
+	zonerefs = node_zonelists[ZONELIST_NOFALLBACK]._zonerefs;
+	nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(nid, zonerefs);
 	zonerefs += nr_zones;
 	zonerefs->zone = NULL;
 	zonerefs->zone_idx = 0;
@@ -5228,15 +5229,14 @@ static void build_thisnode_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
  * may still exist in local DMA zone.
  */
 
-static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
+static void build_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists, int local_node)
 {
 	static int node_order[MAX_NUMNODES];
 	int node, load, nr_nodes = 0;
 	nodemask_t used_mask;
-	int local_node, prev_node;
+	int prev_node;
 
 	/* NUMA-aware ordering of nodes */
-	local_node = pgdat->node_id;
 	load = nr_online_nodes;
 	prev_node = local_node;
 	nodes_clear(used_mask);
@@ -5257,8 +5257,8 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 		load--;
 	}
 
-	build_zonelists_in_node_order(pgdat, node_order, nr_nodes);
-	build_thisnode_zonelists(pgdat);
+	build_zonelists_in_node_order(node_zonelists, node_order, nr_nodes);
+	build_thisnode_zonelists(node_zonelists, local_node);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES
@@ -5283,16 +5283,14 @@ static void setup_min_unmapped_ratio(void);
 static void setup_min_slab_ratio(void);
 #else	/* CONFIG_NUMA */
 
-static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
+static void build_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists, int local_node)
 {
 	int node, local_node;
 	struct zoneref *zonerefs;
 	int nr_zones;
 
-	local_node = pgdat->node_id;
-
-	zonerefs = pgdat->node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK]._zonerefs;
-	nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(pgdat, zonerefs);
+	zonerefs = node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK]._zonerefs;
+	nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(local_node, zonerefs);
 	zonerefs += nr_zones;
 
 	/*
@@ -5306,13 +5304,13 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 	for (node = local_node + 1; node < MAX_NUMNODES; node++) {
 		if (!node_online(node))
 			continue;
-		nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(NODE_DATA(node), zonerefs);
+		nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(node, zonerefs);
 		zonerefs += nr_zones;
 	}
 	for (node = 0; node < local_node; node++) {
 		if (!node_online(node))
 			continue;
-		nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(NODE_DATA(node), zonerefs);
+		nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(node, zonerefs);
 		zonerefs += nr_zones;
 	}
 
@@ -5359,12 +5357,12 @@ static void __build_all_zonelists(void *data)
 	 * building zonelists is fine - no need to touch other nodes.
 	 */
 	if (self && !node_online(self->node_id)) {
-		build_zonelists(self);
+		build_zonelists(self->node_zonelists, self->node_id);
 	} else {
 		for_each_online_node(nid) {
 			pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
 
-			build_zonelists(pgdat);
+			build_zonelists(pgdat->node_zonelists, pgdat->node_id);
 		}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES
-- 
2.7.4

[PATCHv2 2/3] mm/numa: build zonelist when alloc for device on offline node

[Pingfan Liu]

I hit a bug on an AMD machine, with kexec -l nr_cpus=4 option. It is due to
some pgdat is not instanced when specifying nr_cpus, e.g, on x86, not
initialized by init_cpu_to_node()->init_memory_less_node(). But
device->numa_node info is used as preferred_nid param for
__alloc_pages_nodemask(), which causes NULL reference
  ac->zonelist = node_zonelist(preferred_nid, gfp_mask);
Although this bug is detected on x86, it should affect all archs, where
a machine with a numa-node having no memory, if nr_cpus prevents the
instance of the node, and the device on the node tries to allocate memory
with device->numa_node info.
There are two alternative methods to fix the bug.
-1. Make all possible numa nodes be instanced. This should be done for all
archs
-2. Using zonelist instead of pgdat when encountering un-instanced node,
and only do this when needed.
This patch adopts the 2nd method, uses possible_zonelist[] to mirror
node_zonelists[], and tries to build zonelist for the offline node when needed.

Notes about the crashing info:
-1. kexec -l with nr_cpus=4
-2. system info
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0,8,16,24
  NUMA node1 CPU(s):     2,10,18,26
  NUMA node2 CPU(s):     4,12,20,28
  NUMA node3 CPU(s):     6,14,22,30
  NUMA node4 CPU(s):     1,9,17,25
  NUMA node5 CPU(s):     3,11,19,27
  NUMA node6 CPU(s):     5,13,21,29
  NUMA node7 CPU(s):     7,15,23,31
-3. panic stack
[...]
[    5.721547] atomic64_test: passed for x86-64 platform with CX8 and with SSE
[    5.729187] pcieport 0000:00:01.1: Signaling PME with IRQ 34
[    5.735187] pcieport 0000:00:01.2: Signaling PME with IRQ 35
[    5.741168] pcieport 0000:00:01.3: Signaling PME with IRQ 36
[    5.747189] pcieport 0000:00:07.1: Signaling PME with IRQ 37
[    5.754061] pcieport 0000:00:08.1: Signaling PME with IRQ 39
[    5.760727] pcieport 0000:20:07.1: Signaling PME with IRQ 40
[    5.766955] pcieport 0000:20:08.1: Signaling PME with IRQ 42
[    5.772742] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000002088
[    5.773618] PGD 0 P4D 0
[    5.773618] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[    5.773618] CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.20.0-rc1+ #3
[    5.773618] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R7425/02MJ3T, BIOS 1.4.3 06/29/2018
[    5.773618] RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xe2/0x2a0
[    5.773618] Code: 00 00 44 89 ea 80 ca 80 41 83 f8 01 44 0f 44 ea 89 da c1 ea 08 83 e2 01 88 54 24 20 48 8b 54 24 08 48 85 d2 0f 85 46 01 00 00 <3b> 77 08 0f 82 3d 01 00 00 48 89 f8 44 89 ea 48 89
e1 44 89 e6 89
[    5.773618] RSP: 0018:ffffaa600005fb20 EFLAGS: 00010246
[    5.773618] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000006012c0 RCX: 0000000000000000
[    5.773618] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 0000000000002080
[    5.773618] RBP: 00000000006012c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000002
[    5.773618] R10: 00000000006080c0 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000
[    5.773618] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000002
[    5.773618] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8c69afe00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[    5.773618] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[    5.773618] CR2: 0000000000002088 CR3: 000000087e00a000 CR4: 00000000003406e0
[    5.773618] Call Trace:
[    5.773618]  new_slab+0xa9/0x570
[    5.773618]  ___slab_alloc+0x375/0x540
[    5.773618]  ? pinctrl_bind_pins+0x2b/0x2a0
[    5.773618]  __slab_alloc+0x1c/0x38
[    5.773618]  __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xc8/0x270
[    5.773618]  ? pinctrl_bind_pins+0x2b/0x2a0
[    5.773618]  devm_kmalloc+0x28/0x60
[    5.773618]  pinctrl_bind_pins+0x2b/0x2a0
[    5.773618]  really_probe+0x73/0x420
[    5.773618]  driver_probe_device+0x115/0x130
[    5.773618]  __driver_attach+0x103/0x110
[    5.773618]  ? driver_probe_device+0x130/0x130
[    5.773618]  bus_for_each_dev+0x67/0xc0
[    5.773618]  ? klist_add_tail+0x3b/0x70
[    5.773618]  bus_add_driver+0x41/0x260
[    5.773618]  ? pcie_port_setup+0x4d/0x4d
[    5.773618]  driver_register+0x5b/0xe0
[    5.773618]  ? pcie_port_setup+0x4d/0x4d
[    5.773618]  do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1d4
[    5.773618]  ? init_setup+0x25/0x28
[    5.773618]  kernel_init_freeable+0x1c1/0x26e
[    5.773618]  ? loglevel+0x5b/0x5b
[    5.773618]  ? rest_init+0xb0/0xb0
[    5.773618]  kernel_init+0xa/0x110
[    5.773618]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40
[    5.773618] Modules linked in:
[    5.773618] CR2: 0000000000002088
[    5.773618] ---[ end trace 1030c9120a03d081 ]---
[...]

Other notes about the reproduction of this bug:
After appling the following patch:
'commit 0d76bcc960e6 ("Revert "ACPI/PCI: Pay attention to device-specific
_PXM node values"")'
This bug is covered and not triggered on my test AMD machine.
But it should still exist since dev->numa_node info can be set by other
method on other archs when using nr_cpus param

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
 include/linux/gfp.h | 10 +++++++++-
 mm/page_alloc.c     | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 0705164..0ddf809 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -442,6 +442,9 @@ static inline int gfp_zonelist(gfp_t flags)
 	return ZONELIST_FALLBACK;
 }
 
+extern struct zonelist *possible_zonelists[];
+extern int build_fallback_zonelists(int node);
+
 /*
  * We get the zone list from the current node and the gfp_mask.
  * This zone list contains a maximum of MAXNODES*MAX_NR_ZONES zones.
@@ -453,7 +456,12 @@ static inline int gfp_zonelist(gfp_t flags)
  */
 static inline struct zonelist *node_zonelist(int nid, gfp_t flags)
 {
-	return NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists + gfp_zonelist(flags);
+	if (unlikely(!possible_zonelists[nid])) {
+		WARN_ONCE(1, "alloc from offline node: %d\n", nid);
+		if (unlikely(build_fallback_zonelists(nid)))
+			nid = first_online_node;
+	}
+	return possible_zonelists[nid] + gfp_zonelist(flags);
 }
 
 #ifndef HAVE_ARCH_FREE_PAGE
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 17dbf6e..608b51d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ nodemask_t node_states[NR_NODE_STATES] __read_mostly = {
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_states);
 
+struct zonelist *possible_zonelists[MAX_NUMNODES] __read_mostly;
+
 /* Protect totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages */
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(managed_page_count_lock);
 
@@ -5180,7 +5182,6 @@ static int find_next_best_node(int node, nodemask_t *used_node_mask)
 	return best_node;
 }
 
-
 /*
  * Build zonelists ordered by node and zones within node.
  * This results in maximum locality--normal zone overflows into local
@@ -5222,6 +5223,7 @@ static void build_thisnode_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists,
 	zonerefs->zone_idx = 0;
 }
 
+
 /*
  * Build zonelists ordered by zone and nodes within zones.
  * This results in conserving DMA zone[s] until all Normal memory is
@@ -5229,7 +5231,8 @@ static void build_thisnode_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists,
  * may still exist in local DMA zone.
  */
 
-static void build_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists, int local_node)
+static void build_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists,
+	int local_node, bool exclude_self)
 {
 	static int node_order[MAX_NUMNODES];
 	int node, load, nr_nodes = 0;
@@ -5240,6 +5243,8 @@ static void build_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists, int local_node)
 	load = nr_online_nodes;
 	prev_node = local_node;
 	nodes_clear(used_mask);
+	if (exclude_self)
+		node_set(local_node, used_mask);
 
 	memset(node_order, 0, sizeof(node_order));
 	while ((node = find_next_best_node(local_node, &used_mask)) >= 0) {
@@ -5258,7 +5263,40 @@ static void build_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists, int local_node)
 	}
 
 	build_zonelists_in_node_order(node_zonelists, node_order, nr_nodes);
-	build_thisnode_zonelists(node_zonelists, local_node);
+	if (!exclude_self)
+		build_thisnode_zonelists(node_zonelists, local_node);
+	possible_zonelists[local_node] = node_zonelists;
+}
+
+/* this is rare case in which building zonelists for offline node, but
+ * there is dev used on it
+ */
+int build_fallback_zonelists(int node)
+{
+	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock);
+	nodemask_t *used_mask;
+	struct zonelist *zl;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	spin_lock(&lock);
+	if (unlikely(possible_zonelists[node] != NULL))
+		goto unlock;
+
+	used_mask = kmalloc(sizeof(nodemask_t), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	zl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct zonelist)*MAX_ZONELISTS, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (unlikely(!used_mask || !zl)) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		kfree(used_mask);
+		kfree(zl);
+		goto unlock;
+	}
+
+	__nodes_complement(used_mask, &node_online_map, MAX_NUMNODES);
+	build_zonelists(zl, node, true);
+	kfree(used_mask);
+unlock:
+	spin_unlock(&lock);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES
@@ -5283,7 +5321,8 @@ static void setup_min_unmapped_ratio(void);
 static void setup_min_slab_ratio(void);
 #else	/* CONFIG_NUMA */
 
-static void build_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists, int local_node)
+static void build_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists,
+	int local_node, bool _unused)
 {
 	int node, local_node;
 	struct zoneref *zonerefs;
@@ -5357,12 +5396,13 @@ static void __build_all_zonelists(void *data)
 	 * building zonelists is fine - no need to touch other nodes.
 	 */
 	if (self && !node_online(self->node_id)) {
-		build_zonelists(self->node_zonelists, self->node_id);
+		build_zonelists(self->node_zonelists, self->node_id, false);
 	} else {
 		for_each_online_node(nid) {
 			pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
 
-			build_zonelists(pgdat->node_zonelists, pgdat->node_id);
+			build_zonelists(pgdat->node_zonelists, pgdat->node_id,
+				false);
 		}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES
-- 
2.7.4

[PATCHv2 3/3] powerpc/numa: make all possible node be instanced against NULL reference in node_zonelist()

[Pingfan Liu]

This patch tries to resolve a bug rooted at mm when using nr_cpus. It was
reported at [1]. The root cause is: device->numa_node info is used as
preferred_nid param for __alloc_pages_nodemask(), which causes NULL
reference when ac->zonelist = node_zonelist(preferred_nid, gfp_mask), due to
the preferred_nid is not online and not instanced. Hence the bug affects
all archs if a machine having a memory less numa-node, but a device on the
node is used and provide numa_node info to __alloc_pages_nodemask().
This patch makes all possible node online for ppc.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1020838/

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
Note:
[1-2/3] implements one way to fix the bug, while this patch tries another way.
Hence using this patch when [1-2/3] is not acceptable.

 arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
index ce28ae5..31d81a4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
@@ -864,10 +864,19 @@ void __init initmem_init(void)
 
 	memblock_dump_all();
 
-	for_each_online_node(nid) {
+	/* Instance all possible nodes to overcome potential NULL reference
+	 * issue on node_zonelist() when using nr_cpus
+	 */
+	for_each_node(nid) {
 		unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
 
-		get_pfn_range_for_nid(nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn);
+		if (node_online(nid))
+			get_pfn_range_for_nid(nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn);
+		else {
+			start_pfn = end_pfn = 0;
+			/* online it, so later zonelists[] will be built */
+			node_set_online(nid);
+		}
 		setup_node_data(nid, start_pfn, end_pfn);
 		sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions(nid);
 	}
-- 
2.7.4

Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] mm/numa: build zonelist when alloc for device on offline node

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 20-12-18 17:50:38, Pingfan Liu wrote:
[...]
> @@ -453,7 +456,12 @@ static inline int gfp_zonelist(gfp_t flags)
>   */
>  static inline struct zonelist *node_zonelist(int nid, gfp_t flags)
>  {
> -	return NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists + gfp_zonelist(flags);
> +	if (unlikely(!possible_zonelists[nid])) {
> +		WARN_ONCE(1, "alloc from offline node: %d\n", nid);
> +		if (unlikely(build_fallback_zonelists(nid)))
> +			nid = first_online_node;
> +	}
> +	return possible_zonelists[nid] + gfp_zonelist(flags);
>  }

No, please don't do this. We do not want to make things work magically
and we definitely do not want to put something like that into the hot
path. We definitely need zonelists to be build transparently for all
possible nodes during the init time.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] mm/numa: build zonelist when alloc for device on offline node

[Pingfan Liu]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 7:35 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu 20-12-18 17:50:38, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> [...]
> > @@ -453,7 +456,12 @@ static inline int gfp_zonelist(gfp_t flags)
> >   */
> >  static inline struct zonelist *node_zonelist(int nid, gfp_t flags)
> >  {
> > -     return NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists + gfp_zonelist(flags);
> > +     if (unlikely(!possible_zonelists[nid])) {
> > +             WARN_ONCE(1, "alloc from offline node: %d\n", nid);
> > +             if (unlikely(build_fallback_zonelists(nid)))
> > +                     nid = first_online_node;
> > +     }
> > +     return possible_zonelists[nid] + gfp_zonelist(flags);
> >  }
>
> No, please don't do this. We do not want to make things work magically

For magically, if you mean directly replies on zonelist instead of on
pgdat struct, then it is easy to change
> and we definitely do not want to put something like that into the hot

But  the cose of "unlikely" can be ignored, why can it not be placed
in the path?
> path. We definitely need zonelists to be build transparently for all
> possible nodes during the init time.

That is the point, whether the all nodes should be instanced at boot
time, or not be instanced until there is requirement.

To replace the possible_zonelists, I bring out the following draft
(locking issue is not considered)
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 0705164..24e8ae6 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -453,6 +453,11 @@ static inline int gfp_zonelist(gfp_t flags)
  */
 static inline struct zonelist *node_zonelist(int nid, gfp_t flags)
 {
+       if (unlikely(!node_data[nid])) {
+               WARN_ONCE(1, "alloc from offline node: %d\n", nid);
+               if (unlikely(build_offline_node(nid)))
+                       nid = first_online_node;
+       }
        return NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists + gfp_zonelist(flags);
 }

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 2ec9cc4..4ef15fc 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5261,6 +5261,21 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
        build_thisnode_zonelists(pgdat);
 }

+int build_offline_node(int nid)
+{
+       unsigned long zones_size[MAX_NR_ZONES] = {0};
+       unsigned long zholes_size[MAX_NR_ZONES] = {0};
+       pg_data_t *pgdat;
+
+       pgdat = kzalloc(sizeof(pg_data_t), GFP_ATOMIC);
+       if (!pgdat)
+               return -ENOMEM
+       node_data[nid] = pgdat;
+       free_area_init_node(nid, zones_size, 0, zholes_size);
+       build_zonelists(pgdat);
+       return 0;
+}
+

Thanks and regards,
Pingfan

Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] mm/numa: build zonelist when alloc for device on offline node

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 20-12-18 20:26:28, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 7:35 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu 20-12-18 17:50:38, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > [...]
> > > @@ -453,7 +456,12 @@ static inline int gfp_zonelist(gfp_t flags)
> > >   */
> > >  static inline struct zonelist *node_zonelist(int nid, gfp_t flags)
> > >  {
> > > -     return NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists + gfp_zonelist(flags);
> > > +     if (unlikely(!possible_zonelists[nid])) {
> > > +             WARN_ONCE(1, "alloc from offline node: %d\n", nid);
> > > +             if (unlikely(build_fallback_zonelists(nid)))
> > > +                     nid = first_online_node;
> > > +     }
> > > +     return possible_zonelists[nid] + gfp_zonelist(flags);
> > >  }
> >
> > No, please don't do this. We do not want to make things work magically
> 
> For magically, if you mean directly replies on zonelist instead of on
> pgdat struct, then it is easy to change

No, I mean that we _know_ which nodes are possible. Platform is supposed
to tell us. We should just do the intialization properly. What we do now
instead is a pile of hacks that fit magically together. And that should
be changed.

> > and we definitely do not want to put something like that into the hot
> 
> But  the cose of "unlikely" can be ignored, why can it not be placed
> in the path?

unlikely will simply put the code outside of the hot path. The condition
is still there. There are people desperately fighting to get every
single cycle out of the page allocator. Now you want them to pay a
branch which is relevant only for few obscure HW setups.

> > path. We definitely need zonelists to be build transparently for all
> > possible nodes during the init time.
> 
> That is the point, whether the all nodes should be instanced at boot
> time, or not be instanced until there is requirement.

And that should be done at init time. We have all the information
necessary at that time.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] mm/numa: build zonelist when alloc for device on offline node

[Pingfan Liu]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 8:44 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu 20-12-18 20:26:28, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 7:35 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu 20-12-18 17:50:38, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > @@ -453,7 +456,12 @@ static inline int gfp_zonelist(gfp_t flags)
> > > >   */
> > > >  static inline struct zonelist *node_zonelist(int nid, gfp_t flags)
> > > >  {
> > > > -     return NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists + gfp_zonelist(flags);
> > > > +     if (unlikely(!possible_zonelists[nid])) {
> > > > +             WARN_ONCE(1, "alloc from offline node: %d\n", nid);
> > > > +             if (unlikely(build_fallback_zonelists(nid)))
> > > > +                     nid = first_online_node;
> > > > +     }
> > > > +     return possible_zonelists[nid] + gfp_zonelist(flags);
> > > >  }
> > >
> > > No, please don't do this. We do not want to make things work magically
> >
> > For magically, if you mean directly replies on zonelist instead of on
> > pgdat struct, then it is easy to change
>
> No, I mean that we _know_ which nodes are possible. Platform is supposed
> to tell us. We should just do the intialization properly. What we do now
> instead is a pile of hacks that fit magically together. And that should
> be changed.
>
Not agree. Here is the typical lazy to do, and at this point there is
also possible node info for us to check and build pgdat instance.

> > > and we definitely do not want to put something like that into the hot
> >
> > But  the cose of "unlikely" can be ignored, why can it not be placed
> > in the path?
>
> unlikely will simply put the code outside of the hot path. The condition
> is still there. There are people desperately fighting to get every
> single cycle out of the page allocator. Now you want them to pay a
> branch which is relevant only for few obscure HW setups.
>
Data is more convincing.
I test with the following program  built with -O2 on x86. No
observable performance difference between adding an extra unlikely
condition. And it is apparent that the frequency of checking on
unlikely is much higher than my patch.
#include <stdio.h>
#define unlikely_notrace(x)     __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
#define unlikely(x) unlikely_notrace(x)
#define TEST_UNLIKELY 1
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        unsigned long i,j;
        unsigned long end = (unsigned long)1 << 36;
        unsigned long x = 9;
        for (i = 1; i < end; i++) {
#ifdef TEST_UNLIKELY
                if (unlikely(i == end - 1))
                        x *= 8;
#endif
                x *= i;
                x = x%100000 + 1;
        }
        return 0;
}

> > > path. We definitely need zonelists to be build transparently for all
> > > possible nodes during the init time.
> >
> > That is the point, whether the all nodes should be instanced at boot
> > time, or not be instanced until there is requirement.
>
> And that should be done at init time. We have all the information
> necessary at that time.
> --

Will see other guys' comment.

Thanks and regards,
Pingfan

Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] mm/numa: change the topo of build_zonelist_xx()

[kbuild test robot]

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Hi Pingfan,

Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve:

[auto build test ERROR on linus/master]
[also build test ERROR on v4.20-rc7 next-20181220]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Pingfan-Liu/mm-bugfix-for-NULL-reference-in-mm-on-all-archs/20181221-152625
config: riscv-tinyconfig (attached as .config)
compiler: riscv64-linux-gcc (GCC) 8.1.0
reproduce:
        wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
        chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
        # save the attached .config to linux build tree
        GCC_VERSION=8.1.0 make.cross ARCH=riscv 

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

   mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'build_zonelists':
>> mm/page_alloc.c:5288:12: error: 'local_node' redeclared as different kind of symbol
     int node, local_node;
               ^~~~~~~~~~
   mm/page_alloc.c:5286:66: note: previous definition of 'local_node' was here
    static void build_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists, int local_node)
                                                                 ~~~~^~~~~~~~~~

vim +/local_node +5288 mm/page_alloc.c

^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5285  
e6ee0d8bd Pingfan Liu       2018-12-20  5286  static void build_zonelists(struct zonelist *node_zonelists, int local_node)
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5287  {
19655d348 Christoph Lameter 2006-09-25 @5288  	int node, local_node;
9d3be21bf Michal Hocko      2017-09-06  5289  	struct zoneref *zonerefs;
9d3be21bf Michal Hocko      2017-09-06  5290  	int nr_zones;
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5291  
e6ee0d8bd Pingfan Liu       2018-12-20  5292  	zonerefs = node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK]._zonerefs;
e6ee0d8bd Pingfan Liu       2018-12-20  5293  	nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(local_node, zonerefs);
9d3be21bf Michal Hocko      2017-09-06  5294  	zonerefs += nr_zones;
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5295  
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5296  	/*
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5297  	 * Now we build the zonelist so that it contains the zones
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5298  	 * of all the other nodes.
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5299  	 * We don't want to pressure a particular node, so when
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5300  	 * building the zones for node N, we make sure that the
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5301  	 * zones coming right after the local ones are those from
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5302  	 * node N+1 (modulo N)
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5303  	 */
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5304  	for (node = local_node + 1; node < MAX_NUMNODES; node++) {
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5305  		if (!node_online(node))
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5306  			continue;
e6ee0d8bd Pingfan Liu       2018-12-20  5307  		nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(node, zonerefs);
9d3be21bf Michal Hocko      2017-09-06  5308  		zonerefs += nr_zones;
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5309  	}
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5310  	for (node = 0; node < local_node; node++) {
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5311  		if (!node_online(node))
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5312  			continue;
e6ee0d8bd Pingfan Liu       2018-12-20  5313  		nr_zones = build_zonerefs_node(node, zonerefs);
9d3be21bf Michal Hocko      2017-09-06  5314  		zonerefs += nr_zones;
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5315  	}
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5316  
9d3be21bf Michal Hocko      2017-09-06  5317  	zonerefs->zone = NULL;
9d3be21bf Michal Hocko      2017-09-06  5318  	zonerefs->zone_idx = 0;
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5319  }
^1da177e4 Linus Torvalds    2005-04-16  5320  

:::::: The code at line 5288 was first introduced by commit
:::::: 19655d3487001d7df0e10e9cbfc27c758b77c2b5 [PATCH] linearly index zone->node_zonelists[]

:::::: TO: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
:::::: CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>

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