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Peter Anvin" , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Duyck , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman , x86@kernel.org, Christian Borntraeger , Ingo Molnar , Hoan Tran , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Pavel Tatashin , lho@amperecomputing.com, Vasily Gorbik , Vlastimil Babka , Will Deacon , Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Oscar Salvador , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, "David S. Miller" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:42:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Sat 28-03-20 11:31:17, Hoan Tran wrote: > > In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes, > > the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly. > > > > For example, with layout below > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111 > > > > Note: > > - Memory from low to high > > - 0/1: Node id > > - x: Invalid memory of a node > > > > When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES > > config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id. > > Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below > > when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1. > > > > Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx > > Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111 > > > > This layout could occur on any architecture. Most of them enables > > this config by default with CONFIG_NUMA. This patch, by default, enables > > CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES or uses early_pfn_in_nid() for NUMA. > > I am not opposed to this at all. It reduces the config space and that is > a good thing on its own. The history has shown that meory layout might > be really wild wrt NUMA. The config is only used for early_pfn_in_nid > which is clearly an overkill. > > Your description doesn't really explain why this is safe though. The > history of this config is somehow messy, though. Mike has tried > to remove it a94b3ab7eab4 ("[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent > NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES") just to be reintroduced by 7516795739bd > ("[PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc") without any > reasoning what so ever. This doesn't make it really easy see whether > reasons for reintroduction are still there. Maybe there are some subtle > dependencies. I do not see any TBH but that might be burried deep in an > arch specific code. Well, back then early_pfn_in_nid() was arch-dependant, today everyone except ia64 rely on HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP. So, if the memblock node map is correct, that using CONFIG_NUMA instead of CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES would only mean that early_pfn_in_nid() will cost several cycles more on architectures that didn't select CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES (i.e. arm64 and sh). Agian, ia64 is an exception here. > > v3: > > * Revise the patch description > > > > V2: > > * Revise the patch description > > > > Hoan Tran (5): > > mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA > > powerpc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES > > x86: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES > > sparc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES > > s390: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES > > > > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 9 --------- > > arch/s390/Kconfig | 8 -------- > > arch/sparc/Kconfig | 9 --------- > > arch/x86/Kconfig | 9 --------- > > mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- > > 5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 36 deletions(-) > > > > -- > > 1.8.3.1 > > > > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs -- Sincerely yours, Mike. _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel