The patch titled Subject: mm/memory_hotplug.c: initialize per_cpu_nodestats for hotadded pgdats has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-initialize-per_cpu_nodestats-for-hotadded-pgdats.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-initialize-per_cpu_nodestats-for-hotadded-pgdats.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-initialize-per_cpu_nodestats-for-hotadded-pgdats.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Reza Arbab <arbab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/memory_hotplug.c: initialize per_cpu_nodestats for hotadded pgdats The following oops occurs after a pgdat is hotadded: [ 86.839956] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00c30001 [ 86.840132] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000022f8f4 [ 86.840328] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [ 86.840468] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries [ 86.840612] Modules linked in: ip6t_rpfilter ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_conntrack ebtable_nat ebtable_broute bridge stp llc ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_nat nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_nat_ipv6 ip6table_mangle ip6table_security ip6table_raw ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack iptable_mangle iptable_security iptable_raw iptable_filter nls_utf8 isofs sg virtio_balloon uio_pdrv_genirq uio ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod virtio_net ibmvscsi scsi_transport_srp virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [ 86.842955] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 4.8.0-rc1-device #110 [ 86.843140] task: c000000000ef3080 task.stack: c000000000f6c000 [ 86.843323] NIP: c00000000022f8f4 LR: c00000000022f948 CTR: 0000000000000000 [ 86.843595] REGS: c000000000f6fa50 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G W (4.8.0-rc1-device) [ 86.843889] MSR: 800000010280b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[E]> CR: 84002028 XER: 20000000 [ 86.844624] CFAR: d000000001d2013c DAR: 0000000000c30001 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 0 GPR00: c00000000022f948 c000000000f6fcd0 c000000000f71400 0000000000000001 GPR04: 0000000000000100 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000c30000 GPR08: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000001 0000000000c30000 00000000ffffffff GPR12: 0000000000002200 c000000001300000 c000000000faefb4 c000000000faefa8 GPR16: c000000000f6c000 c000000000f6c080 c000000000bf15b0 c000000000f6c080 GPR20: c000000000bf4928 0000000000000000 0000000000000003 c000000000bf4968 GPR24: c0000000ffed0000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000000000f6fd58 GPR28: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 c000000000f6fcf0 c0000000ffed9c08 [ 86.847747] NIP [c00000000022f8f4] refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0x1a4/0x2f0 [ 86.847897] LR [c00000000022f948] refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0x1f8/0x2f0 [ 86.848060] Call Trace: [ 86.848183] [c000000000f6fcd0] [c00000000022f948] refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0x1f8/0x2f0 (unreliable) Add per_cpu_nodestats initialization to the hotplug codepath. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470931473-7090-1-git-send-email-arbab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-initialize-per_cpu_nodestats-for-hotadded-pgdats mm/memory_hotplug.c --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-initialize-per_cpu_nodestats-for-hotadded-pgdats +++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -1219,6 +1219,7 @@ static pg_data_t __ref *hotadd_new_pgdat /* init node's zones as empty zones, we don't have any present pages.*/ free_area_init_node(nid, zones_size, start_pfn, zholes_size); + pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats = alloc_percpu(struct per_cpu_nodestat); /* * The node we allocated has no zone fallback lists. For avoiding @@ -1249,6 +1250,7 @@ static pg_data_t __ref *hotadd_new_pgdat static void rollback_node_hotadd(int nid, pg_data_t *pgdat) { arch_refresh_nodedata(nid, NULL); + free_percpu(pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats); arch_free_nodedata(pgdat); return; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from arbab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-initialize-per_cpu_nodestats-for-hotadded-pgdats.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html