Fw: 2.6.16 crashes when running numastat on p575

Sonny Rao sonny at burdell.org
Mon Apr 3 18:09:50 EST 2006


On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 10:12:29PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > I have a vague feeling that you guys worked on numastat?
> 
> This is mostly Andi's code although I added the zone_pcp() stuff. This is 
> failing because zone_pcp() only returns valid information for online 
> processors.
> 
> Initially all zone_pcps() point to the boot_cpuset (see zone_pcp_init)
> and therefore zone_pcp) is always valid and we do not see this bug. But 
> if someone downs a processor or a processor dies then free_zone_pageset() 
> is called which will set zone_pcp() = NULL.
> 
> 
> Fix NULL pointer dereference in node_read_numastat()
> 
> zone_pcp() only returns valid values if the processor is online.
> 
> Change node_read_numastat() to only scan online processors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter at sgi.com>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.16/drivers/base/node.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.16.orig/drivers/base/node.c	2006-03-19 21:53:29.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.16/drivers/base/node.c	2006-04-02 21:59:49.000000000 -0700
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_numastat(struct
>  	other_node = 0;
>  	for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
>  		struct zone *z = &pg->node_zones[i];
> -		for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++) {
> +		for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
>  			struct per_cpu_pageset *ps = zone_pcp(z,cpu);
>  			numa_hit += ps->numa_hit;
>  			numa_miss += ps->numa_miss;


Works, thanks.

Sonny



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