The system may panic when initialisation is done when almost all the memory is assigned to the huge pages using the kernel command line parameter hugepage=xxxx. Panic may occur like this: [ 0.082289] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000 [ 0.082338] Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000302b88 [ 0.082377] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [ 0.082408] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 [ 0.082424] NUMA [ 0.082440] pSeries [ 0.082457] Modules linked in: [ 0.082490] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.9.0-15-generic #16-Ubuntu [ 0.082536] task: c00000021ed01600 task.stack: c00000010d108000 [ 0.082575] NIP: c000000000302b88 LR: c000000000270e04 CTR: c00000000016cfd0 [ 0.082621] REGS: c00000010d10b2c0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (4.9.0-15-generic) [ 0.082666] MSR: 8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>[ 0.082770] CR: 28424422 XER: 00000000 [ 0.082793] CFAR: c0000000003d28b8 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 1 GPR00: c000000000270e04 c00000010d10b540 c00000000141a300 c00000010fff6300 GPR04: 0000000000000000 00000000026012c0 c00000010d10b630 0000000487ab0000 GPR08: 000000010ee90000 c000000001454fd8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR12: 0000000000004400 c00000000fb80000 00000000026012c0 00000000026012c0 GPR16: 00000000026012c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 GPR20: 000000000000000c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000024200c0 GPR24: c0000000016eef48 0000000000000000 c00000010fff7d00 00000000026012c0 GPR28: 0000000000000000 c00000010fff7d00 c00000010fff6300 c00000010d10b6d0 NIP [c000000000302b88] mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim+0xf8/0x4f0 [ 0.083456] LR [c000000000270e04] do_try_to_free_pages+0x1b4/0x450 [ 0.083494] Call Trace: [ 0.083511] [c00000010d10b540] [c00000010d10b640] 0xc00000010d10b640 (unreliable) [ 0.083567] [c00000010d10b610] [c000000000270e04] do_try_to_free_pages+0x1b4/0x450 [ 0.083622] [c00000010d10b6b0] [c000000000271198] try_to_free_pages+0xf8/0x270 [ 0.083676] [c00000010d10b740] [c000000000259dd8] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7a8/0xff0 [ 0.083729] [c00000010d10b960] [c0000000002dd274] new_slab+0x104/0x8e0 [ 0.083776] [c00000010d10ba40] [c0000000002e03d0] ___slab_alloc+0x620/0x700 [ 0.083822] [c00000010d10bb70] [c0000000002e04e4] __slab_alloc+0x34/0x60 [ 0.083868] [c00000010d10bba0] [c0000000002e101c] kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xdc/0x310 [ 0.083947] [c00000010d10bc00] [c000000000eb8120] mem_cgroup_init+0x158/0x1c8 [ 0.083994] [c00000010d10bc40] [c00000000000dde8] do_one_initcall+0x68/0x1d0 [ 0.084041] [c00000010d10bd00] [c000000000e84184] kernel_init_freeable+0x278/0x360 [ 0.084094] [c00000010d10bdc0] [c00000000000e714] kernel_init+0x24/0x170 [ 0.084143] [c00000010d10be30] [c00000000000c0e8] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74 [ 0.084195] Instruction dump: [ 0.084220] eb81ffe0 eba1ffe8 ebc1fff0 ebe1fff8 4e800020 3d230001 e9499a42 3d220004 [ 0.084300] 3929acd8 794a1f24 7d295214 eac90100 <e9360000> 2fa90000 419eff74 3b200000 [ 0.084382] ---[ end trace 342f5208b00d01b6 ]--- This is a chicken and egg issue where the kernel try to get free memory when allocating per node data in mem_cgroup_init(), but in that path mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() is called which assumes that these data are allocated. As mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() is best effort, it should return when these data are not yet allocated. Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 1fd6affcdde7..213f96b2f601 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2556,7 +2556,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, * is empty. Do it lockless to prevent lock bouncing. Races * are acceptable as soft limit is best effort anyway. */ - if (RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&mctz->rb_root)) + if (!mctz || RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&mctz->rb_root)) return 0; /* -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
