Paul Mackerras and Reza Arbab reported that machines with memoryless nodes
fails when vmstats are refreshed. Paul reported an oops as follows
[ 1.713998] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xff7a10000
[ 1.714164] Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000270cd0
[ 1.714304] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[ 1.714414] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
[ 1.714530] Modules linked in:
[ 1.714647] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.7.0-kvm+ #118
[ 1.714786] task: c000000ff0680010 task.stack: c000000ff0704000
[ 1.714926] NIP: c000000000270cd0 LR: c000000000270ce8 CTR: 0000000000000000
[ 1.715093] REGS: c000000ff0707900 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (4.7.0-kvm+)
[ 1.715232] MSR: 9000000102009033 <SF,HV,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[E]> CR: 846b6824 XER: 20000000
[ 1.715748] CFAR: c000000000008768 DAR: 0000000ff7a10000 DSISR: 42000000 SOFTE: 1
GPR00: c000000000270d08 c000000ff0707b80 c0000000011fb200 0000000000000000
GPR04: 0000000000000800 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR08: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 0000000ff7a10000 c00000000122aae0
GPR12: c000000000a1e440 c00000000fb80000 c00000000000c188 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000000000cecad0
GPR24: c000000000d035b8 c000000000d6cd18 c000000000d6cd18 c000001fffa86300
GPR28: 0000000000000000 c000001fffa96300 c000000001230034 c00000000122eb18
[ 1.717484] NIP [c000000000270cd0] refresh_zone_stat_thresholds+0x80/0x240
[ 1.717568] LR [c000000000270ce8] refresh_zone_stat_thresholds+0x98/0x240
[ 1.717648] Call Trace:
[ 1.717687] [c000000ff0707b80] [c000000000270d08] refresh_zone_stat_thresholds+0xb8/0x240 (unreliable)
Both supplied potential fixes but one potentially misses checks and another
had redundant initialisations. This version initialises per_cpu_nodestats
on a per-pgdat basis instead of on a per-zone basis.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This has been compile-tested and boot-tested on a 32-bit KVM only. A
memoryless system was not available to test the patch with. A confirmation
from Paul and Reza that it resolves their problem is welcome.
mm/page_alloc.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 39a372a2a1d6..fb975cec3518 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5257,11 +5257,6 @@ static void __meminit setup_zone_pageset(struct zone *zone)
zone->pageset = alloc_percpu(struct per_cpu_pageset);
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
zone_pageset_init(zone, cpu);
-
- if (!zone->zone_pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats) {
- zone->zone_pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats =
- alloc_percpu(struct per_cpu_nodestat);
- }
}
/*
@@ -5270,10 +5265,15 @@ static void __meminit setup_zone_pageset(struct zone *zone)
*/
void __init setup_per_cpu_pageset(void)
{
+ struct pglist_data *pgdat;
struct zone *zone;
for_each_populated_zone(zone)
setup_zone_pageset(zone);
+
+ for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat)
+ pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats =
+ alloc_percpu(struct per_cpu_nodestat);
}
static noinline __ref
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