Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] sched: schedule balance map foundation

[Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 02/20/2013 09:21 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 17:09 +0800, Michael Wang wrote:
>> +       for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>> +               sbm = &per_cpu(sbm_array, cpu);
>> +               node = cpu_to_node(cpu);
>> +               size = sizeof(struct sched_domain *) * sbm_max_level;
>> +
>> +               for (type = 0; type < SBM_MAX_TYPE; type++) {
>> +                       sbm->sd[type] = kmalloc_node(size, GFP_KERNEL,
>> node);
>> +                       WARN_ON(!sbm->sd[type]);
>> +                       if (!sbm->sd[type])
>> +                               goto failed;
>> +               }
>> +       }
> 
> You can't readily use kmalloc_node() here, cpu_to_node() might return an
> invalid node for offline cpus here.
> 
> Also see: 2ea45800d8e1c3c51c45a233d6bd6289a297a386

Hi, Peter

Thanks for your reply, I've not noticed this point, Mike had suggested
to do allocation in notifier when cpu is online, I will try to use that
idea in the formal patch set.

Regards,
Michael Wang

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