[PATCH 0/4] Fix kmalloc_node on offline nodes

Srikar Dronamraju srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Mar 18 00:17:49 AEDT 2020


Sachin recently reported that linux-next was no more bootable on few
systems.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/3381CD91-AB3D-4773-BA04-E7A072A63968@linux.vnet.ibm.com/

# numactl -H
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
node 0 cpus:
node 0 size: 0 MB
node 0 free: 0 MB
node 1 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
node 1 size: 35247 MB
node 1 free: 30907 MB
node distances:
node   0   1
  0:  10  40
  1:  40  10
#

Sachin bisected the problem to Commit a75056fc1e7c ("mm/memcontrol.c: allocate
shrinker_map on appropriate NUMA node")

The root cause analysis showed that mm/slub and powerpc/numa had some shortcomings
with respect to offline nodes.

This patch series is on top of patches posted at
https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20200311110237.5731-1-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com/t/#u

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Sachin Sant <sachinp at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at kernel.org>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl at linux.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim at lge.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai at virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata at linux.ibm.com>

Srikar Dronamraju (4):
  mm: Check for node_online in node_present_pages
  mm/slub: Use mem_node to allocate a new slab
  mm: Implement reset_numa_mem
  powerpc/numa: Set fallback nodes for offline nodes

 arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c         | 11 ++++++++++-
 include/asm-generic/topology.h |  3 +++
 include/linux/mmzone.h         |  6 ++++--
 include/linux/topology.h       |  7 +++++++
 mm/slub.c                      | 19 ++++++++-----------
 5 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

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2.18.1



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