Re: [PATCH] sched/numa, mm: do not promote folios to nodes not set N_MEMORY

[Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 06:23:05PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 06:11:40PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 08:52:30AM +0100, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 04:07:54PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > > > For normal numa nodes, node_data[] is initialized at alloc_node_data(),
> > > > but it's not for memoryless node. However, the node *gets onlined* at
> > > > init_cpu_to_node().
> > > > 
> > > > Let's look at back free_area_init(). free_area_init_node() will be called
> > > > with node_data[] not set yet, because it's already *onlined*. So
> > > > ->zone_pgdat cannot be initialized properly in the path you mentioned.
> > > 
> > > I am might be missing something., so bear with me.
> > > 
> > > free_area_init() gets called before init_cpu_to_node() does.
> > > free_area_init_node() gets called on every possible node.
> > > 
> > > free_area_init_node then() does
> > > 
> > >  pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);,
> > > 
> > > and then we call free_area_init_core().
> > > 
> > > free_area_init_core() does
> > > 
> > >  free_area_init_core() does
> > >   zone_init_internals()
> > > 
> > > which ends up doing zone->zone_pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
> > > 
> > > If node_data[] was not set at all, we would already blow up when doing
> > > the first
> > > 
> > >   for_each_node()
> > >     pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
> > >     free_area_init_node(nid);
> > > 
> > > back in free_area_init().
> > 
> > It seems that I got it wrong about the reason. Let me check it again and
> > share the reason.

I analyzed it wrong. Even though the issue was gone with the patch but
it's not the fix. Sorry for making you confused. I submitted the fix with
another patch:

   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240216111502.79759-1-byungchul@sk.com/

	Byungchul