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From: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:29:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E60ABF.9020400@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140123223136.GA18468@redhat.com>




On 01/24/2014 06:31 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 01:58:24AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>
>   >  128 bytes is a pretty small amount of stack though, so I'm just as confused
>   >  as to what the actual bug here is.
>   >
>   >  After trying the proposed fix, I got another oops in the early init code..
>   >
>   >  <trace>
>   >  nr_free_zone_pages
>   >  nr_free_pagecache_pages
>   >  build_all_zonelists
>   >  start_kernel
>   >  <rip>  ffffffffbc164b1e next_zones_zonelist
>   >  <rsp>  ffffffffbcc01f00
>
> Ok, this is crashing here in next_zones_zonelist...
>
>                  while (zonelist_zone_idx(z)>  highest_zoneidx)
>    de:   3b 77 08                cmp    0x8(%rdi),%esi
>
>
> I stuck this at the top of the function..
>
> printk(KERN_ERR "z:%p nodes:%p highest:%d\n", z, nodes, highest_zoneidx);
>
> and got
>
> z: 1d08   nodes: (null)  highest:3
>
>
> Some build tests show..
>
> MAXSMP ( NODESHIFT=10 ) : Bug
> NRCPUS=4&  NODESHIFT=10 : Bug
> NRCPUS=4&  NODESHIFT=1 : no bug
>
>
> The middle config test was accidental, I hadn't realised disabling MAXSMP
> wouldn't reset NODESHIFT to something sane.
>
> I'll start bisecting, as MAXSMP worked fine until a few days ago.

Hi Dave,

I didn't reproduce this bug. Would you please share the bisect result ?

Thanks.

>
> 	Dave
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-27  7:26 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
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 [this message]
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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