With the preempt check logic we will get false positives from these locations. Before the use of __this_cpu ops there were no checks for preemption present either and smp_raw_processor_id() was used. See http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-numa/msg00641.html Use raw_cpu_read() to avoid preemption messages. Note that this issue has been discussed in prior years. If the process changes nodes after retrieving the current numa node then that is acceptable since most uses of numa_node etc are for optimization and not for correctness. CC: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Index: linux/include/linux/topology.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/linux/topology.h 2013-09-24 11:29:51.000000000 -0500 +++ linux/include/linux/topology.h 2013-09-24 11:30:18.893831971 -0500 @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, numa_node); /* Returns the number of the current Node. */ static inline int numa_node_id(void) { - return __this_cpu_read(numa_node); + return raw_cpu_read(numa_node); } #endif @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static inline void set_numa_mem(int node /* Returns the number of the nearest Node with memory */ static inline int numa_mem_id(void) { - return __this_cpu_read(_numa_mem_); + return raw_cpu_read(_numa_mem_); } #endif -- 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>