On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 10:17:03AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 14.02.23 09:42, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > On 2/13/23 12:00, Qi Zheng wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2023/2/13 16:47, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > > > On 2/12/23 12:03, Qi Zheng wrote:
> > > > > In x86, numa_register_memblks() is only interested in
> > > > > those nodes which have enough memory, so it skips over
> > > > > all nodes with memory below NODE_MIN_SIZE (treated as
> > > > > a memoryless node). Later on, we will initialize these
> > > > > memoryless nodes (allocate pgdat in free_area_init()
> > > > > and build zonelist etc), and will online these nodes
> > > > > in init_cpu_to_node() and init_gi_nodes().
> > > > >
> > > > > After boot, these memoryless nodes are in N_ONLINE
> > > > > state but not in N_MEMORY state. But we can still allocate
> > > > > pages from these memoryless nodes.
> > > > >
> > > > > In SLUB, we only process nodes in the N_MEMORY state,
> > > > > such as allocating their struct kmem_cache_node. So if
> > > > > we allocate a page from the memoryless node above to
> > > > > SLUB, the struct kmem_cache_node of the node corresponding
> > > > > to this page is NULL, which will cause panic.
> > > > >
> > > > > For example, if we use qemu to start a two numa node kernel,
> > > > > one of the nodes has 2M memory (less than NODE_MIN_SIZE),
> > > > > and the other node has 2G, then we will encounter the
> > > > > following panic:
> > > > >
> > > > > [ 0.149844] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
> > > > > [ 0.150783] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
> > > > > [ 0.151488] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
> > > > > <...>
> > > > > [ 0.156056] RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x40
> > > > > <...>
> > > > > [ 0.169781] Call Trace:
> > > > > [ 0.170159] <TASK>
> > > > > [ 0.170448] deactivate_slab+0x187/0x3c0
> > > > > [ 0.171031] ? bootstrap+0x1b/0x10e
> > > > > [ 0.171559] ? preempt_count_sub+0x9/0xa0
> > > > > [ 0.172145] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x12c/0x440
> > > > > [ 0.172735] ? bootstrap+0x1b/0x10e
> > > > > [ 0.173236] bootstrap+0x6b/0x10e
> > > > > [ 0.173720] kmem_cache_init+0x10a/0x188
> > > > > [ 0.174240] start_kernel+0x415/0x6ac
> > > > > [ 0.174738] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe0/0xeb
> > > > > [ 0.175417] </TASK>
> > > > > [ 0.175713] Modules linked in:
> > > > > [ 0.176117] CR2: 0000000000000000
> > > > >
> > > > > In addition, we can also encountered this panic in the actual
> > > > > production environment. We set up a 2c2g container with two
> > > > > numa nodes, and then reserved 128M for kdump, and then we
> > > > > can encountered the above panic in the kdump kernel.
> > > > >
> > > > > To fix it, we can filter memoryless nodes when allocating
> > > > > pages.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Reported-by: Teng Hu <huteng.ht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Well AFAIK the key mechanism to only allocate from "good" nodes is the
> > > > zonelist, we shouldn't need to start putting extra checks like this. So it
> > > > seems to me that the code building the zonelists should take the
> > > > NODE_MIN_SIZE constraint in mind.
> > >
> > > Indeed. How about the following patch:
> >
> > +Cc also David, forgot earlier.
> >
> > Looks good to me, at least.
> >
> > > @@ -6382,8 +6378,11 @@ int find_next_best_node(int node, nodemask_t
> > > *used_node_mask)
> > > int min_val = INT_MAX;
> > > int best_node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
> > >
> > > - /* Use the local node if we haven't already */
> > > - if (!node_isset(node, *used_node_mask)) {
> > > + /*
> > > + * Use the local node if we haven't already. But for memoryless
> > > local
> > > + * node, we should skip it and fallback to other nodes.
> > > + */
> > > + if (!node_isset(node, *used_node_mask) && node_state(node,
> > > N_MEMORY)) {
> > > node_set(node, *used_node_mask);
> > > return node;
> > > }
> > >
> > > For memoryless node, we skip it and fallback to other nodes when
> > > build its zonelists.
> > >
> > > Say we have node0 and node1, and node0 is memoryless, then:
> > >
> > > [ 0.102400] Fallback order for Node 0: 1
> > > [ 0.102931] Fallback order for Node 1: 1
> > >
> > > In this way, we will not allocate pages from memoryless node0.
> > >
>
> In offline_pages(), we'll first build_all_zonelists() to then
> node_states_clear_node()->node_clear_state(node, N_MEMORY);
>
> So at least on the offlining path, we wouldn't detect it properly yet I
> assume, and build a zonelist that contains a now-memory-less node?
Another question is what happens if a new memory is plugged into a node
that had < NODE_MIN_SIZE of memory and after hotplug it stops being
"memoryless".
> --
> Thanks,
>
> David / dhildenb
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
