Re: [PATCH] numa, mem-hotplug: Fix stack overflow in numa when seting kernel nodes to unhotpluggable.

[Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>]

On 01/28/2014 12:47 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:47:11PM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
>   >  On 01/28/2014 11:55 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
>   >  >  On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:24:37AM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
>   >  >
>   >  >    >   >   I did a bisect with the patch above applied each step of the way.
>   >  >    >   >   This time I got a plausible looking result....
>   >  >    >
>   >  >    >   I cannot reproduce this. Would you please share how to reproduce it ?
>   >  >    >   Or does it just happen during the booting ?
>   >  >
>   >  >  Just during boot. Very early. So early in fact, I have no logging facilities
>   >  >  like usb-serial, just what is on vga console.
>   >  >
>   >  >  If you want me to add some printk's, I can add a while (1); before
>   >  >  the part that oopses so we can diagnose further..
>   >
>   >  Sure. Would you please do that for me ? Maybe we can find something in
>   >  the early log.
>
> I was hoping you'd have suggestions what you'd like me to dump ;-)


I think I found something.

Since I can reproduce the first problem on 3.10, I found some memory 
ranges in memblock
have nid = 1024. When we use node_set(), it will crash.

I'll see if we have the same problem on the latest kernel.

[    0.000000] NUMA: Initialized distance table, cnt=2
[    0.000000] NUMA: Warning: node ids are out of bound, from=-1 to=-1 
distance=10
[    0.000000] NUMA: Node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x7fffffff] + [mem 
0x100000000-0x47fffffff] -> [mem 0x00000000-0x47fffffff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x47fffffff]
[    0.000000]   NODE_DATA [mem 0x47ffd9000-0x47fffffff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 1 [mem 0x480000000-0x87fffffff]
[    0.000000]   NODE_DATA [mem 0x87ffbb000-0x87ffe1fff]
[    0.000000] AAAA: i = 0, nid = 0
[    0.000000] AAAA: i = 1, nid = 0
[    0.000000] AAAA: i = 2, nid = 0
[    0.000000] AAAA: i = 3, nid = 0
[    0.000000] AAAA: i = 4, nid = 1024
[    0.000000] AAAA: i = 5, nid = 1024
[    0.000000] AAAA: i = 6, nid = 1
[    0.000000] AAAA: i = 7, nid = 1
[    0.000000] Reserving 128MB of memory at 704MB for crashkernel 
(System RAM: 32406MB)
[    0.000000]  [ffffea0000000000-ffffea0011ffffff] PMD -> 
[ffff880470200000-ffff88047fdfffff] on node 0
[    0.000000]  [ffffea0012000000-ffffea0021ffffff] PMD -> 
[ffff88086f600000-ffff88087f5fffff] on node 1
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA      [mem 0x00001000-0x00ffffff]
[    0.000000]   DMA32    [mem 0x01000000-0xffffffff]
[    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x100000000-0x87fffffff]
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00001000-0x00098fff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00100000-0x696f7fff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x100000000-0x47fffffff]
[    0.000000]   node   1: [mem 0x480000000-0x87fffffff]

Thanks.