Re: [PATCH 2/2 v6] mm/mempolicy: Don't create weight sysfs for memoryless nodes

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Hi Joshua,

On 2/27/2025 6:35 AM, Joshua Hahn wrote:
We should never try to allocate memory from a memoryless node. Creating a
sysfs knob to control its weighted interleave weight does not make sense,
and can be unsafe.

Only create weighted interleave weight knobs for nodes with memory.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 4cc04ff8f12c..50cbb7c047fa 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -3721,7 +3721,7 @@ static int add_weighted_interleave_group(struct kobject *root_kobj)
  		return err;
  	}
- for_each_node_state(nid, N_POSSIBLE) {

Actually, we're aware of this issue and currently trying to fix this.
In our system, we've attached 4ch of CXL memory for each socket as
follows.

        node0             node1
      +-------+   UPI   +-------+
      | CPU 0 |-+-----+-| CPU 1 |
      +-------+         +-------+
      | DRAM0 |         | DRAM1 |
      +---+---+         +---+---+
          |                 |
      +---+---+         +---+---+
      | CXL 0 |         | CXL 4 |
      +---+---+         +---+---+
      | CXL 1 |         | CXL 5 |
      +---+---+         +---+---+
      | CXL 2 |         | CXL 6 |
      +---+---+         +---+---+
      | CXL 3 |         | CXL 7 |
      +---+---+         +---+---+
        node2             node3

The 4ch of CXL memory are detected as a single NUMA node in each socket,
but it shows as follows with the current N_POSSIBLE loop.

$ ls /sys/kernel/mm/mempolicy/weighted_interleave/
node0 node1 node2 node3 node4 node5
node6 node7 node8 node9 node10 node11

+	for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY) {

But using N_MEMORY doesn't fix this problem and it hides the entire CXL
memory nodes in our system because the CXL memory isn't detected at this
point of creating node*.  Maybe there is some difference when multiple
CXL memory is detected as a single node.

We have to create more nodes when CXL memory is detected later. In addition, this part can be changed to "for_each_online_node(nid)"
although N_MEMORY is also fine here.

We've internally fixed it using a memory hotpluging callback so we can
upload another working version later.

Do you mind if we continue fixing this work?

Thanks,
Honggyu

  		err = add_weight_node(nid, wi_kobj);
  		if (err) {
  			pr_err("failed to add sysfs [node%d]\n", nid);





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