Re: [Bugfix v2] sched: fix possible invalid memory access caused by CPU hot-addition

[Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>]

Thanks Peter, I will try to find other solutions.

On 2014/4/28 15:09, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:48:13AM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> Intel platforms with Nehalem/Westmere/IvyBridge CPUs may support socket
>> hotplug/online at runtime. The CPU hot-addition flow is:
>> 1) handle CPU hot-addition event
>> 	1.a) gather platform specific information
>> 	1.b) associate hot-added CPU with NUMA node
>> 	1.c) create CPU device
>> 2) online hot-added CPU through sysfs:
>> 	2.a)	cpu_up()
>> 	2.b)		->try_online_node()
>> 	2.c)			->hotadd_new_pgdat()
>> 	2.d)			->node_set_online()
>>
>> Between 1.b and 2.c, hot-added CPUs are associated with NUMA nodes
>> but those NUMA nodes may still be in offlined state. So we should
>> check node_online(nid) before calling kmalloc_node(nid) and friends,
>> otherwise it may cause invalid memory access as below.
> 
> So complete and full NAK on this. This is a workaround for a fucked in
> the head BIOS. If you're going to do a work around for that they should
> live in arch/ space, not in core code.
> 
> The code in question is nearly 7 years old (2.6.24), which leads me to
> believe it works just fine for (regular) memory less nodes as I've not
> had complaints about it before.
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