mem_cgroup_init() request for allocations from each possible node, and it's used to be a problem because NODE_DATA is not allocated for offline node. Things have already changed since commit 09f49dca570a9 ("mm: handle uninitialized numa nodes gracefully"), so it's unnecessary to check for !node_online nodes here. How to test? qemu-system-x86_64 \ -kernel vmlinux \ -initrd full.rootfs.cpio.gz \ -append "console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram0 nokaslr earlyprintk=serial oops=panic panic_on_warn" \ -drive format=qcow2,file=vm_disk.qcow2,media=disk,if=ide \ -enable-kvm \ -cpu host \ -m 8G,slots=2,maxmem=16G \ -smp cores=4,threads=1,sockets=2 \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem0,size=4G \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem1,size=4G \ -numa node,memdev=mem0,cpus=0-3,nodeid=0 \ -numa node,memdev=mem1,cpus=4-7,nodeid=1 \ -numa node,nodeid=2 \ -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:58 \ -net user \ -nographic \ -rtc base=localtime \ -gdb tcp::6000 Guest state when booting: [ 0.048881] NUMA: Node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x0009ffff] + [mem 0x00100000-0xbfffffff] -> [mem 0x00000000-0xbfffffff] [ 0.050489] NUMA: Node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0xbfffffff] + [mem 0x100000000-0x13fffffff] -> [mem 0x00000000-0x13fffffff] [ 0.052173] NODE_DATA(0) allocated [mem 0x13fffc000-0x13fffffff] [ 0.053164] NODE_DATA(1) allocated [mem 0x23fffa000-0x23fffdfff] [ 0.054187] Zone ranges: [ 0.054587] DMA [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000ffffff] [ 0.055551] DMA32 [mem 0x0000000001000000-0x00000000ffffffff] [ 0.056515] Normal [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000023fffffff] [ 0.057484] Movable zone start for each node [ 0.058149] Early memory node ranges [ 0.058705] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000000009efff] [ 0.059679] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000bffdffff] [ 0.060659] node 0: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000013fffffff] [ 0.061649] node 1: [mem 0x0000000140000000-0x000000023fffffff] [ 0.062638] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000013fffffff] [ 0.063745] Initmem setup node 1 [mem 0x0000000140000000-0x000000023fffffff] [ 0.064855] DMA zone: 158 reserved pages exceeds freesize 0 [ 0.065746] Initializing node 2 as memoryless [ 0.066437] Initmem setup node 2 as memoryless [ 0.067132] DMA zone: 158 reserved pages exceeds freesize 0 [ 0.068037] On node 0, zone DMA: 1 pages in unavailable ranges [ 0.068265] On node 0, zone DMA: 97 pages in unavailable ranges [ 0.124755] On node 0, zone Normal: 32 pages in unavailable ranges cat /sys/devices/system/node/online 0-1 cat /sys/devices/system/node/possible 0-2 Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu <haifeng.xu@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: - extend changelog by test steps --- mm/memcontrol.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 4b27e245a055..c73c5fb33f65 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -7421,8 +7421,7 @@ static int __init mem_cgroup_init(void) for_each_node(node) { struct mem_cgroup_tree_per_node *rtpn; - rtpn = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*rtpn), GFP_KERNEL, - node_online(node) ? node : NUMA_NO_NODE); + rtpn = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*rtpn), GFP_KERNEL, node); rtpn->rb_root = RB_ROOT; rtpn->rb_rightmost = NULL; -- 2.25.1