On Tue, 18 May 2010 14:17:22 +0800
minskey guo <chaohong_guo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: minskey guo <chaohong.guo@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The operation of "enable CPU to online before memory within a node"
> fails in some case according to Prarit. The warnings as follows:
>
> Pid: 7440, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.32 #2
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff81155985>] pcpu_alloc+0xa05/0xa70
> [<ffffffff81155a20>] __alloc_percpu+0x10/0x20
> [<ffffffff81089605>] __create_workqueue_key+0x75/0x280
> [<ffffffff8110e050>] ? __build_all_zonelists+0x0/0x5d0
> [<ffffffff810c1eba>] stop_machine_create+0x3a/0xb0
> [<ffffffff810c1f57>] stop_machine+0x27/0x60
> [<ffffffff8110f1a0>] build_all_zonelists+0xd0/0x2b0
> [<ffffffff814c1d12>] cpu_up+0xb3/0xe3
> [<ffffffff814b3c40>] store_online+0x70/0xa0
> [<ffffffff81326100>] sysdev_store+0x20/0x30
> [<ffffffff811d29a5>] sysfs_write_file+0xe5/0x170
> [<ffffffff81163d28>] vfs_write+0xb8/0x1a0
> [<ffffffff810cfd22>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x252/0x280
> [<ffffffff81164761>] sys_write+0x51/0x90
> [<ffffffff81013132>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> Built 4 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 12331603
> PERCPU: allocation failed, size=128 align=64, failed to populate
>
> With "enable CPU to online before memory" patch, when the 1st CPU of
> an offlined node is being onlined, we build zonelists for that node.
> If per-cpu area needs to be extended during zonelists building period,
> alloc_pages_node() will be called. The routine alloc_pages_node() fails
> on the node in-onlining because the node doesn't have zonelists created
> yet.
>
> To fix this issue, we try to alloc memory from current node.
How serious is this issue? Just a warning? Dead box?
Because if we want to port this fix into 2.6.34.x, we have a little
problem.
> --- a/mm/percpu.c
> +++ b/mm/percpu.c
> @@ -714,13 +714,29 @@ static int pcpu_alloc_pages(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk,
In linux-next, Tejun has gone and moved pcpu_alloc_pages() into the new
mm/percpu-vm.c. So either
a) the -stable guys will need to patch a different file or
b) we apply this fix first and muck up Tejun's tree or
c) the bug isn't very serious so none of this applies.
> {
> const gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_COLD;
> unsigned int cpu;
> + int nid;
> int i;
>
> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> for (i = page_start; i < page_end; i++) {
> struct page **pagep = &pages[pcpu_page_idx(cpu, i)];
>
> - *pagep = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu), gfp, 0);
> + nid = cpu_to_node(cpu);
> +
> + /*
> + * It is allowable to online a CPU within a NUMA
> + * node which doesn't have onlined local memory.
> + * In this case, we need to create zonelists for
> + * that node when cpu is being onlined. If per-cpu
> + * area needs to be extended at the exact time when
> + * zonelists of that node is being created, we alloc
> + * memory from current node.
> + */
> + if ((nid == -1) ||
> + !(node_zonelist(nid, GFP_KERNEL)->_zonerefs->zone))
> + nid = numa_node_id();
> +
> + *pagep = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp, 0);
> if (!*pagep) {
> pcpu_free_pages(chunk, pages, populated,
> page_start, page_end);
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