Re: node-hotplug: is memset 0 safe in try_offline_node()?

[Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>]

On 2015/3/3 18:20, Gu Zheng wrote:

> Hi Xishi,
> On 03/03/2015 11:30 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> 
>> When hot-remove a numa node, we will clear pgdat,
>> but is memset 0 safe in try_offline_node()?
> 
> It is not safe here. In fact, this is a temporary solution here.
> As you know, pgdat is accessed lock-less now, so protection
> mechanism (RCUi 1/4 ?) is needed to make it completely safe here,
> but it seems a bit over-kill.
> 
>>
>> process A:			offline node XX:
>> 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))
>> access node XX's pgdat
>> NULL pointer access error
> 
> It's possible, but I did not meet this condition, did you?
> 

Yes, we test hot-add/hot-remove node with stress, and meet the following
call trace several times.

	next_online_pgdat()
		int nid = next_online_node(pgdat->node_id);  // it's here, pgdat is NULL

I add some printk, it shows the above pgdat is just the offline node's pgdat.
The reason may be that for_each_zone() and for_each_populated_zone() are lock-less.
And stop machine could not resolve it, because cond_resched() maybe in cyclical code.

[ 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

Thanks,
Xishi Qiu

> Regards,
> Gu
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Xishi Qiu
>>
>> --
>> To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
>> the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
>> see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
>> Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> .
> 



--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>