From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] openvswitch: allocate nr_node_ids flow_stats instead of num_possible_nodes Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20150721.222648.171655319967229139.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20150721162418.GM38815@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1437500193-10255-1-git-send-email-chris.j.arges@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1437500193-10255-1-git-send-email-chris.j.arges@canonical.com> Sender: linux-numa-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: chris.j.arges@canonical.com Cc: nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, pshelar@nicira.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-numa@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Chris J Arges Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:36:33 -0500 > Some architectures like POWER can have a NUMA node_possible_map that > contains sparse entries. This causes memory corruption with openvswitch > since it allocates flow_cache with a multiple of num_possible_nodes() and > assumes the node variable returned by for_each_node will index into > flow->stats[node]. > > Use nr_node_ids to allocate a maximal sparse array instead of > num_possible_nodes(). > > The crash was noticed after 3af229f2 was applied as it changed the > node_possible_map to match node_online_map on boot. > Fixes: 3af229f2071f5b5cb31664be6109561fbe19c861 > > Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges Applied, thanks.