6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx> commit 76e961157e078bc5d3cd2df08317e00b00a829eb upstream. gather_bootmem_prealloc() assumes the start nid as 0 and size as num_node_state(N_MEMORY). That means in case if memory attached numa nodes are interleaved, then gather_bootmem_prealloc_parallel() will fail to scan few of these nodes. Since memory attached numa nodes can be interleaved in any fashion, hence ensure that the current code checks for all numa node ids (.size = nr_node_ids). Let's still keep max_threads as N_MEMORY, so that it can distributes all nr_node_ids among the these many no. threads. e.g. qemu cmdline ======================== numa_cmd="-numa node,nodeid=1,memdev=mem1,cpus=2-3 -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0-1 -numa dist,src=0,dst=1,val=20" mem_cmd="-object memory-backend-ram,id=mem1,size=16G" w/o this patch for cmdline (default_hugepagesz=1GB hugepagesz=1GB hugepages=2): ========================== ~ # cat /proc/meminfo |grep -i huge AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB FileHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 1048576 kB Hugetlb: 0 kB with this patch for cmdline (default_hugepagesz=1GB hugepagesz=1GB hugepages=2): =========================== ~ # cat /proc/meminfo |grep -i huge AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB FileHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 2 HugePages_Free: 2 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 1048576 kB Hugetlb: 2097152 kB Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f8d8dad3a5471d284f54185f65d575a6aaab692b.1736592534.git.ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: b78b27d02930 ("hugetlb: parallelize 1G hugetlb initialization") Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Pavithra Prakash <pavrampu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gang Li <gang.li@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -3271,7 +3271,7 @@ static void __init gather_bootmem_preall .thread_fn = gather_bootmem_prealloc_parallel, .fn_arg = NULL, .start = 0, - .size = num_node_state(N_MEMORY), + .size = nr_node_ids, .align = 1, .min_chunk = 1, .max_threads = num_node_state(N_MEMORY),