The patch titled Subject: mm/memory hotplug: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memory-hotplog-postpone-the-reset-of-obsolete-pgdat.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memory-hotplog-postpone-the-reset-of-obsolete-pgdat.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memory-hotplog-postpone-the-reset-of-obsolete-pgdat.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: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/memory hotplug: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat Qiu Xishi reported the following BUG when testing hot-add/hot-remove node under stress condition. [ 1422.011064] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000025f60 [ 1422.011086] IP: [<ffffffff81126b91>] next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50 [ 1422.011178] PGD 0 [ 1422.011180] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 1422.011409] ACPI: Device does not support D3cold [ 1422.011961] Modules linked in: fuse nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod coretemp mperf crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel ablk_helper cryptd lrw gf128mul glue_helper aes_x86_64 pcspkr microcode igb dca i2c_algo_bit ipv6 megaraid_sas iTCO_wdt i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_vendor_support tg3 sg hwmon ptp lpc_ich pps_core mfd_core acpi_pad rtc_cmos button ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh ahci libahci libata scsi_mod [last unloaded: rasf] [ 1422.012006] CPU: 23 PID: 238 Comm: kworker/23:1 Tainted: G O 3.10.15-5885-euler0302 #1 [ 1422.012024] Hardware name: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD. Huawei N1/Huawei N1, BIOS V100R001 03/02/2015 [ 1422.012065] Workqueue: events vmstat_update [ 1422.012084] task: ffffa800d32c0000 ti: ffffa800d32ae000 task.ti: ffffa800d32ae000 [ 1422.012165] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81126b91>] [<ffffffff81126b91>] next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50 [ 1422.012205] RSP: 0018:ffffa800d32afce8 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 1422.012225] RAX: 0000000000001440 RBX: ffffffff81da53b8 RCX: 0000000000000082 [ 1422.012226] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 1422.012254] RBP: ffffa800d32afd28 R08: ffffffff81c93bfc R09: ffffffff81cbdc96 [ 1422.012272] R10: 00000000000040ec R11: 00000000000000a0 R12: ffffa800fffb3440 [ 1422.012290] R13: ffffa800d32afd38 R14: 0000000000000017 R15: ffffa800e6616800 [ 1422.012292] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa800e6600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1422.012314] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 1422.012328] CR2: 0000000000025f60 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000001407e0 [ 1422.012328] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 1422.012328] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 1422.012328] Stack: [ 1422.012328] ffffa800d32afd28 ffffffff81126ca5 ffffa800ffffffff ffffffff814b4314 [ 1422.012328] ffffa800d32ae010 0000000000000000 ffffa800e6616180 ffffa800fffb3440 [ 1422.012328] ffffa800d32afde8 ffffffff81128220 ffffffff00000013 0000000000000038 [ 1422.012328] Call Trace: [ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff81126ca5>] ? next_zone+0xc5/0x150 [ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff814b4314>] ? __schedule+0x544/0x780 [ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff81128220>] refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0xd0/0x140 [ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff811282a1>] vmstat_update+0x11/0x50 [ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff81064c24>] process_one_work+0x194/0x3d0 [ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff810660bb>] worker_thread+0x12b/0x410 [ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff81065f90>] ? manage_workers+0x1a0/0x1a0 [ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff8106ba66>] kthread+0xc6/0xd0 [ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff8106b9a0>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 [ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff814be0ac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff8106b9a0>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 The cause is the "memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat))" at the end of try_offline_node, which will reset the all content of pgdat to 0, as the pgdat is accessed lock-lee, so that the users still using the pgdat will panic, such as the vmstat_update routine. process A: offline node XX: vmstat_updat() refresh_cpu_vm_stats() for_each_populated_zone() find online node XX cond_resched() offline cpu and memory, then try_offline_node() node_set_offline(nid), and memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat)) zone = next_zone(zone) pg_data_t *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat; // here pgdat is NULL now next_online_pgdat(pgdat) next_online_node(pgdat->node_id); // NULL pointer access So the solution here is postponing the reset of obsolete pgdat from try_offline_node() to hotadd_new_pgdat(), and just resetting pgdat->nr_zones and pgdat->classzone_idx to be 0 rather than the memset 0 to avoid breaking pointer information in pgdat. Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 13 ++++--------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-memory-hotplog-postpone-the-reset-of-obsolete-pgdat mm/memory_hotplug.c --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-memory-hotplog-postpone-the-reset-of-obsolete-pgdat +++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -1092,6 +1092,10 @@ static pg_data_t __ref *hotadd_new_pgdat return NULL; arch_refresh_nodedata(nid, pgdat); + } else { + /* Reset the nr_zones and classzone_idx to 0 before reuse */ + pgdat->nr_zones = 0; + pgdat->classzone_idx = 0; } /* we can use NODE_DATA(nid) from here */ @@ -1977,15 +1981,6 @@ void try_offline_node(int nid) if (is_vmalloc_addr(zone->wait_table)) vfree(zone->wait_table); } - - /* - * Since there is no way to guarentee the address of pgdat/zone is not - * on stack of any kernel threads or used by other kernel objects - * without reference counting or other symchronizing method, do not - * reset node_data and free pgdat here. Just reset it to 0 and reuse - * the memory when the node is online again. - */ - memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat)); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_offline_node); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-memory-hotplog-postpone-the-reset-of-obsolete-pgdat.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html