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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugfix] sched: fix possible invalid memory access caused by CPU hot-addition
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:04:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140422200449.GF11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140422130151.83bc4539364ca660c68de859@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 01:01:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:15:15 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 01:27:15PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
> > > When calling kzalloc_node(size, flags, node), we should first check
> > > whether node is onlined, otherwise it may cause invalid memory access
> > > as below.
> > 
> > But this is only for memory less node crap, right? 
> 
> um, why are memoryless nodes crap?

Why wouldn't they be? Having CPUs with no local memory seems decidedly
suboptimal.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-22 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-22  5:27 [Bugfix] sched: fix possible invalid memory access caused by CPU hot-addition Jiang Liu
2014-04-22  8:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-22 20:01   ` Andrew Morton
2014-04-22 20:04     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-04-23  1:59       ` David Rientjes
2014-04-23  4:53         ` Jiang Liu
2014-04-23  2:05       ` Mike Galbraith
2014-04-23  2:45   ` Jiang Liu
2014-04-23  5:32     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-23  5:45       ` Jiang Liu
2014-04-23  5:51       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-23 17:46         ` Luck, Tony
2014-04-24  2:59           ` Jiang Liu
2014-04-24  7:47             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-24 17:41               ` Luck, Tony
2014-04-24 19:09                 ` Peter Zijlstra

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