On 2022/4/19 12:03, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 10:35:26 +0000 Peng Liu <liupeng256@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Certain systems are designed to have sparse/discontiguous nodes. In
this case, nr_online_nodes can not be used to walk through numa node.
Also, a valid node may be greater than nr_online_nodes.
However, in hugetlb, it is assumed that nodes are contiguous. Recheck
all the places that use nr_online_nodes, and repair them one by one.
oops.
What are the user-visible runtime effects of this flaw?
For example, there are four node=0,1,2,3, and nid = 1 is offline
node，nr_online_nodes = 3
1) per-node alloc (hugepages=1:2) fails,
2) per-node alloc (hugepages=3:2) fails, but it could succeed.
I assume that there is no user-visible runtime effects.
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