From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/alloc: fallback to first node if the wanted node offline
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 10:21:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181205092148.GA1286@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFgQCTuyKBZdwWG=fOECE6J8DbZJsErJOyXTrLT0Kog3ec7vhw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed 05-12-18 13:38:17, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 4:56 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue 04-12-18 16:20:32, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 3:22 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue 04-12-18 11:05:57, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > > > > During my test on some AMD machine, with kexec -l nr_cpus=x option, the
> > > > > kernel failed to bootup, because some node's data struct can not be allocated,
> > > > > e.g, on x86, 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);
> > > > > This patch tries to fix the issue by falling back to the first online node,
> > > > > when encountering such corner case.
> > > >
> > > > We have seen similar issues already and the bug was usually that the
> > > > zonelists were not initialized yet or the node is completely bogus.
> > > > Zonelists should be initialized by build_all_zonelists quite early so I
> > > > am wondering whether the later is the case. What is the actual node
> > > > number the device is associated with?
> > > >
> > > The device's node num is 2. And in my case, I used nr_cpus param. Due
> > > to init_cpu_to_node() initialize all the possible node. It is hard
> > > for me to figure out without this param, how zonelists is accessed
> > > before page allocator works.
> >
> > I believe we should focus on this. Why does the node have no zonelist
> > even though all zonelists should be initialized already? Maybe this is
> > nr_cpus pecularity and we do not initialize all the existing numa nodes.
> > Or maybe the device is associated to a non-existing node with that
> > setup. A full dmesg might help us here.
> >
> Requiring the machine again, and I got the following without nr_cpus option
> [root@dell-per7425-03 ~]# cd /sys/devices/system/node/
> [root@dell-per7425-03 node]# ls
> has_cpu has_memory has_normal_memory node0 node1 node2 node3
> node4 node5 node6 node7 online possible power uevent
> [root@dell-per7425-03 node]# cat has_cpu
> 0-7
> [root@dell-per7425-03 node]# cat has_memory
> 1,5
> [root@dell-per7425-03 node]# cat online
> 0-7
> [root@dell-per7425-03 node]# cat possible
> 0-7
> And lscpu shows the following numa-cpu 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
>
> For the full panic message (I masked some hostname info with xx),
> please see the attachment.
> In a short word, it seems a problem with nr_cpus, if without this
> option, the kernel can bootup correctly.
Yep.
[ 0.007418] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.007419] node 1: [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000000008efff]
[ 0.007420] node 1: [mem 0x0000000000090000-0x000000000009ffff]
[ 0.007422] node 1: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000005c3d6fff]
[ 0.007422] node 1: [mem 0x00000000643df000-0x0000000068ff7fff]
[ 0.007423] node 1: [mem 0x000000006c528000-0x000000006fffffff]
[ 0.007424] node 1: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000047fffffff]
[ 0.007425] node 5: [mem 0x0000000480000000-0x000000087effffff]
There is clearly no node2. Where did the driver get the node2 from?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-05 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-04 3:05 [PATCH] mm/alloc: fallback to first node if the wanted node offline Pingfan Liu
2018-12-04 3:53 ` David Rientjes
2018-12-04 7:16 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-05 5:49 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-05 19:00 ` David Rientjes
2018-12-04 6:54 ` Wei Yang
2018-12-04 7:20 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-04 8:34 ` Wei Yang
2018-12-04 8:52 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-04 9:09 ` Wei Yang
2018-12-05 5:50 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-04 7:22 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-04 8:20 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-04 8:40 ` Wei Yang
2018-12-04 8:56 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-04 8:56 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-04 14:42 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-12-05 5:38 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-05 9:21 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-12-05 9:29 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-05 9:40 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-12-06 3:07 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-06 8:28 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-06 10:03 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-06 10:44 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-06 12:11 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-07 2:56 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-07 7:53 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-07 9:40 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-07 11:30 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-07 13:20 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-07 14:22 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-07 14:27 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-07 14:50 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-07 15:56 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-10 4:00 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-10 7:57 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-10 12:37 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-11 8:05 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-11 9:44 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-12 8:33 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-12 8:31 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-12 11:53 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-13 8:37 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-13 9:04 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-17 13:29 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-20 7:19 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-20 9:19 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-08 14:34 ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-09 3:13 ` Pingfan Liu
2019-01-11 3:12 ` Pingfan Liu
2019-01-11 9:23 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-17 12:57 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-05 9:43 ` Michal Hocko
2018-12-06 3:34 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-12-06 7:23 ` Michal Hocko
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