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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Zhouping Liu <zliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] Foundation for automatic NUMA balancing
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 15:25:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121107152558.GZ8218@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509A2970.9000408@redhat.com>

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:27:12PM +0800, Zhouping Liu wrote:
> 
> Hello Mel,
> 
> my 2 nodes machine hit a panic fault after applied the patch
> set(based on kernel-3.7.0-rc4), please review it:
> 
> <SNIP>

Early initialisation problem by the looks of things. Try this please

---8<---
mm: numa: Check that preferred_node_policy is initialised

Zhouping Liu reported the following

[ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 0.000000] kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:1785!
[ 0.000000] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] CPU 0
....
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff81176966>] alloc_pages_current+0xa6/0x170
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff81137a44>] __get_free_pages+0x14/0x50
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff819efd9b>] kmem_cache_init+0x53/0x2d2
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff819caa53>] start_kernel+0x1e0/0x3c7

Problem is that early in boot preferred_nod_policy and SLUB
initialisation trips up. Check it is initialised.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
 mm/mempolicy.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 11d4b6b..8cfa6dc 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -129,6 +129,10 @@ static struct mempolicy *get_task_policy(struct task_struct *p)
 		node = numa_node_id();
 		if (node != -1)
 			pol = &preferred_node_policy[node];
+
+		/* preferred_node_policy is not initialised early in boot */
+		if (!pol->mode)
+			pol = NULL;
 	}
 
 	return pol;

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-07 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-06  9:14 [RFC PATCH 00/19] Foundation for automatic NUMA balancing Mel Gorman
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 01/19] mm: compaction: Move migration fail/success stats to migrate.c Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 17:32   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 02/19] mm: migrate: Add a tracepoint for migrate_pages Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 17:33   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 03/19] mm: compaction: Add scanned and isolated counters for compaction Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 17:35   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 04/19] mm: numa: define _PAGE_NUMA Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 18:35   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 05/19] mm: numa: pte_numa() and pmd_numa() Mel Gorman
2012-11-13  9:54   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-13 11:24     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 06/19] mm: numa: teach gup_fast about pmd_numa Mel Gorman
2012-11-13 10:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-13 11:37     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-13 13:51       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 07/19] mm: numa: split_huge_page: transfer the NUMA type from the pmd to the pte Mel Gorman
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 08/19] mm: numa: Create basic numa page hinting infrastructure Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 18:58   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-07 10:38     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-07 10:48       ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-07 11:00         ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-13 10:21   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-13 11:50     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-13 13:49       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-13 14:26         ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 09/19] mm: mempolicy: Make MPOL_LOCAL a real policy Mel Gorman
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 10/19] mm: mempolicy: Add MPOL_MF_NOOP Mel Gorman
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 11/19] mm: mempolicy: Check for misplaced page Mel Gorman
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 12/19] mm: migrate: Introduce migrate_misplaced_page() Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 19:10   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-13  9:36   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-13 11:43     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-13 11:56       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-13 14:49       ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 13/19] mm: mempolicy: Use _PAGE_NUMA to migrate pages Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 19:18   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-07 12:32     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 14/19] mm: mempolicy: Add MPOL_MF_LAZY Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 19:19   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-13 10:25   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-13 12:02     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 15/19] mm: numa: Add fault driven placement and migration Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 19:41   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-07 10:49     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-07 11:46       ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-13 10:45   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-13 12:09     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-13 13:39       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 16/19] mm: numa: Add pte updates, hinting and migration stats Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 19:55   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-07 10:57     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-07 11:47       ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 17/19] mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy Mel Gorman
2012-11-07 11:56   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 18/19] mm: sched: numa: Implement constant, per task Working Set Sampling (WSS) rate Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 19:55   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-06  9:14 ` [PATCH 19/19] mm: sched: numa: Implement slow start for working set sampling Mel Gorman
2012-11-06 19:56   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-07  9:27 ` [RFC PATCH 00/19] Foundation for automatic NUMA balancing Zhouping Liu
2012-11-07 15:25   ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2012-11-08  6:37     ` Zhouping Liu
2012-11-08  6:39       ` 杨竹
2012-11-08  7:03         ` Zhouping Liu
2012-11-09 14:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-11-09 16:12   ` Mel Gorman

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