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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com,
	guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] numa, mem-hotplug: Fix stack overflow in numa when seting kernel nodes to unhotpluggable.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:13:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140123061343.GB15206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1401222203330.8088@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:06:14PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
 > On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Tang Chen wrote:
 > 
 > > Dave found that the kernel will hang during boot. This is because
 > > the nodemask_t type stack variable numa_kernel_nodes is large enough
 > > to overflow the stack.
 > > 
 > > This doesn't always happen. According to Dave, this happened once
 > > in about five boots. The backtrace is like the following:
 > > 
 > > dump_stack
 > > panic
 > > ? numa_clear_kernel_node_hotplug
 > > __stack_chk_fail
 > > numa_clear_kernel_node_hotplug
 > > ? memblock_search_pfn_nid
 > > ? __early_pfn_to_nid
 > > numa_init
 > > x86_numa_init
 > > initmem_init
 > > setup_arch
 > > start_kernel
 > > 
 > > This patch fix this problem by defining numa_kernel_nodes as a
 > > static global variable in __initdata area.
 > > 
 > > Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
 > > Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
 > > Tested-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
 > 
 > I guess it depends on what Dave's CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT is?

It's 10, because I had MAXSMP set.

So, MAX_NUMNODES = 1 << 10

And the bitmask is made of longs. 1024 of them.

How does this work ?

	Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-23  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-23  5:49 [PATCH] numa, mem-hotplug: Fix stack overflow in numa when seting kernel nodes to unhotpluggable Tang Chen
2014-01-23  6:01 ` Dave Jones
2014-01-23  6:05 ` Andrew Morton
2014-01-23  6:06 ` David Rientjes
2014-01-23  6:13   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2014-01-23  6:15     ` David Rientjes
2014-01-23  6:58       ` Dave Jones
2014-01-23 22:31         ` Dave Jones
2014-01-27  7:29           ` Tang Chen
2014-01-27 14:52             ` Dave Jones
2014-01-23  6:36     ` Tang Chen
2014-01-28  0:32   ` David Rientjes
2014-01-28  1:01     ` Tang Chen
2014-01-28  2:55       ` Dave Jones
2014-01-28  3:14         ` Tang Chen
2014-01-28  3:24         ` Tang Chen
2014-01-28  3:55           ` Dave Jones
2014-01-28  4:47             ` Tang Chen
2014-01-28  4:47               ` Dave Jones
2014-01-28  5:17                 ` Tang Chen
2014-01-28  6:53                   ` Dave Jones
2014-01-28  5:31                 ` Tang Chen
2014-01-28  7:10                   ` Tang Chen

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